The drivers had brought flhacka and shovel to take care of road conditions and no they had seized

in the house, because they had to take care of shit log.

Rather than chopping off crap stock could simply move shithouse. I've been through it a few times
when we have large teams, including Vuojatselkojan at Prllven. There we were twenty-one, and
so many men shitting Goder much in one day. Shit house was small and easily with a single hole. It
stood on two logs and was not fixed in the frozen ground. Two men lifted the shithouse, if there
were strong men. And that was the rule in the timber forest. When the pile grew and approached the
brink lifted one shithouse forward.
There is an event with a crap stock that is renowned among all who worked in the woods around
Tjmotis and Kvikkjokk. A man took the ax from the chopping block in the woodpile when he
would chop off shit log. Then, another of the men in the hut cook meat. He went to the chopping
block and cut the frozen meat in pieces, it was evening and dark outside. The meat began to boil
and then smelled the shit in the house. The men blamed each other to fart and smell bad. Finally,
someone lifted the lid on the pot and shouted:
- Hell, you boil the crap!
Then there was great discussion about how the hell had gotten into the pot. He was doing the
cooking told me he had been out on the woodpile and chopped meat. When told another man that he
had used the same ax to the crappy stock, it must be crap stuck on the ax which then kletat firm
flesh. But he was not ashamed of his prank using the wrong ax. He found himself quickly and said
the words that became famous:
- It does not matter, probably, it is where the meat to eat. It's only known people who shit here.
He meant is that, since everyone in the hut knew each played the shit does not matter much, but if
the shit had come from a stranger it would have been worse.
WC
Towards the end of the 1940s it began to be plain with water closet in the houses in the villages.
Many old men who shit the first time in a flush toilet came out and said:
- Never again!
The water skvittrade in aschle when shit fell. Such had escaped before. It was a shock to the water
splashed, piss mixed water that shit sausages floating in, it was horrible
But people together eventually and started shitting inside, the technology will take us home in the
end. Formerly it was called: I go out and shit. Now it is said: I go in and shit. In the beginning,
people thought it was awful. Going in and shit in the house where you lived almost felt like making
the house to the barn or manure pile. And it smelled. Someone fart had had to endure even earlier.
But now when people shat inside seriously became formidable smell, so they were not accustomed.
They did not build the whole house to get toilet inside. Without it usually ended up in a scrub with
no windows, so it could not sniff out odors.

This article was previously published in Argaladei 2/2004.

Taken from http://www.faltbiologerna.se/faltbiologen/innan-toapapperet-uno-viklund-berattarand
and translated by googletranslate.
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Uno Viklund was from the village of Hara Udden outside Jokkmokk. He was born in the early
1920s and worked during his life as a horse groom and forestry workers. Here is his story of how
the man escaped before toilet paper became common.
Before the paper is dried one in aschle which it was called, in many different ways. They took
what was easily accessible. There was much used and nothing was bought, nature and the forest
gave all ways. It was never troubled in the woods not to find something to wipe with. It was so used
to shit where you were and wipe themselves with what was there. Even today, the same
opportunities, for those who have the wisdom to take advantage of them. But it begins to be
forgotten. People think that the only conceivable variation is paper with or without flowers.
A common method was to use wooden sticks. I remember no special name on the sticks, shit sticks,
more was said not. The tljdes with a knife, to what was at hand. Firewood was always used,
whether you were at home or in the forest. As a rule tljdes sticks of firewood. Male mouth loose fit
for purpose two thick needles from a log. Only the knife was used, no ax needed sticks were
slender. The needles were manufactured always in pairs, two and two. The first was straight and one
side would be thin and sharp, others stick was rounded at the top like a butter knife. First, scraped it
with the straight stick. As for the crap that does not loose the other side, so we went and scraped
with other stick. The round tip came to scratch where it was deepest in aschle. You could scratch
several times. Thus it was clean! At worst, they took maybe sometime three sticks.
The length of the strips was as it seemed, it was not so careful. If you had back pain could it maybe
be good with a long stick. If there was plenty of time snickringen could be made more precise, it
was a rush carved more provisional. But you were always trying to cobble edge so that scratched
was smooth and sharp. Smooth as there was smstickor who sprawled out and got stuck in aschle,
reeds so it scraped fine. Even if one carefully carved sticks were simple things that went fast to
make, it took maybe a minute. If you were not in the vicinity of huts and firewood, so they made
sticks of whatever they found.
Knitting needles and splinters from vedhuggningen in the woodshed could be used directly as they
were. However, they were not as good as sticks tljdes jiggle, we used almost always carved sticks.
At the time, saw there was no wood is cut with an ax so it was dreadfully much waste and sticks and
chips, which could be used to scrape aschle. The needles were disposable products. After use, they
were released into the hole in the shithouse. In the spring it was full of shit sticks in the barrel. Shit
was running out on the fields, and the matches came with and harrowed down, they were rotting in
the fields. Now if you are not tipped shit pile in the woods, it happened too. Otherwise, human shit
fine manure, it grew out of hell where one fertilized. But we did not use human shit in the potato
patch, at least not where I lived. Even if one is not afraid to eat potatoes grown with the help of
one's own shit, so would not rotted sticks to rock the boat when the potatoes should be dug up.
However, barley and oats would become animal feed were fertilized.
The men could sit in the evenings in the kitchen and carve in front, carve in advance so there would
be a bunch of sticks in the privy. Topics for the matches were in the wood-box. Both women and
men used sticks. If the needles in the shithouse had run out and a woman have to get there, she
could tell a man:
- Woodwork some sticks, I have to go and shit!
So it was, I remember it so clearly. The men always had the knife in his belt, so they were always
willing and able to cobble immediately. With the women, it was slightly different, they did not
always have a knife. And so maybe they wanted to avoid having to do carpentry. Infants were
washed and dried with wipes. But when the children became so large that no longer dried them they
also used sticks. When the boys were seven, eight years old got the knife and began crafting their
own sticks. Old men who were accustomed with sticks went with it, they did not care about the
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that this kit would heave and drop in the water. The only thing we did was we went swimming in
the lake, but it was a different matter.
When we went fishing, we drank some scoop water out of the lake. And we would of course eat the
fish. Then, we wanted it to be clean. I live at Lilla Lule River lake system. There are large lakes all
the way from Kvikkjokk to Jokkmokk twelve mil. It had probably not done anything if someone
pissed in all this water occasionally, but they did not. They were afraid of nature.
We took note of the lake, but the beaches are bad. We pulled not towards land, but took up the note
on the lake, we pulled the flapper. It was the hour at the lake, we rowed between notvarpen and it
was way to quiet. If a boy then became piss was the only stick. One could of course not cancel
notdragningen and quiet of country for a boy wanted to piss. If it was about to get in the pants could
possibly get permission to pee in the lake, but not otherwise. The men were careful.
In the 1800s visited a prince Kvikkjokk, he became King Charles XV. He was transported by
rowboat after the lakes and the Skalka became prince piss, but not even the royals got piss in the
lake. It was closer to an island than to country, so they rowed to the island and where did prince
wee. Since then called islet Prince Holmen.
I like laklever, it's almost the best dishes I know. But I have a slogan; Lake must come from a lake
Sjuvajaur where no pee the last ten years.
Using the stick
In the huts were there so that anyone who went out first in the morning and pissed got a question
when he came in.
- Is it cold?
The worst answer, as no one wanted to hear was:
- I have to use the stick!
The old man said that it was so cold that the beam froze instantly when he peed. He must turn it to
piss finished. So cold it was of course never. But when it froze so that you remember the words it
used to be between thirty and forty degrees below zero.
When pissed tonight, pissed for the last time before they lay down to sleep, looked into the sky and
predicted what the weather was going to be the next day. It was a mandatory ritual that was repeated
every night. Old men had many brands. If there was a large ring that was open at the top around the
moon, they said:
- Ooooh, huvvaligen what it will snow.
They looked at the sky on the blushed and said: now it gets hot, now it gets very hot, now it gets
cold. Very often sued the what the men said. When the radio came with their weather reports
disappeared vderspendet.
Crappy Stock
Kit houses need more maintenance than a crappy bar. When it's cold in the winter, it becomes
quickly overloaded in a privy. The shit freezes so the stacked on each other to a high pillar, instead
of flowing out. This pillar is called the shit log. It grows in height and must be chopped off before it
starts to reach the hole in the brink. During crap rod, it will not please some crappy stock People do
different sideways, it will be a stripe or callus behind the bar, instead of a peak.
In timber forest was kuskarnas task to clear the shit log. When it started to get too high would
lumberjacks chase out the driver and say,
- Hrdudu kuskjvul, you have to chop off shit log.
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Another thing to consider is the Crown snow-load. As long as it's cold and no wind is the snow left
in the trees, but when it gets warm rages on. In order not to get snow over them when you sit at the
bar so it clears the trees as the rod is nailed in, before sitting down. You take an ax and hit the tribes
so the snow is raging. You do not hit all the time, just because it has been snowing. Without hitting
when it has been in the weather as the snow starts to fall off. On the woodpile was usually an ax
handy, so it takes you with it.
It cleared the trees sometimes when you cut timber as well. Beat the ax in the pine, and jumped
away so it did not get the snow over it. How good it is now going to jump in the deep snow.

paper. Throughout the 1930s, there were needles in the forest, when you cut timber and lived in
huts. First forward WWII disappeared, with the old generation men.
Sooner washed not their hands when they were shit. The needles were really very cleanly. It never
took his hand in aschle, that one must do when paper is used. Then the man and dig deep down
with his hand, with only a thin sheet of paper between.
Moss

We were clever in any way. We always managed to arrange everything, with simple means. A flush
toilet costs a lot of money. Cities need the pipes and treatment plants and plants for many millions
before the toilet works. And sometimes it stops. The old always works, crappy bar simply can not
fail. Nevertheless, the flush toilet good. It felt later today when I was and shit. You do not have to
go out in the dark and cold weather.

The woods used moss. But it is difficult to dry with moss than the stick, I think that the stick is
more effective. With the moss becomes sticky somehow, everything can not get away. In itself there
are different moss. Maidenhair they used to use, it is green and thick. Moss on the marshes were
used to a lesser extent. It took the moss where they sat, and held rather to in among trees than open
on a bog. On the marsh is too wet, you do not want to sit in water. It happened to be gathered moss
in the summer to have at home in the shithouse. But it was rare, the stick was the most common
here.

Privy

Lichen

Even in the 1930s timrades all huts to forest harvesting, and at such huts were never privy. In the
forties came lmkojorna, mounted and removable brdkojor. Then came also privy to the forest.
They were as cold as the pole, but it did not have to get snow in the clothes when it snowed and
whirled.

It will be winter and snow and then dig not for moss, but lichen in the trees are always in the woods.
Best is the bright greenish yellow lichen that grows in trees, especially on the mountain. Somehow,
the finer and softer than other lichen, it is similar to hair and is long and soft. The usual black lichen
that hangs in both firs and pines are coarser and worse. Lichen on the trees never become so brittle
as reindeer moss on the ground will be when the weather is dry. It never happens that lichen
crumble in the hand when dry. When you were in the woods and cut timber, it was common to use
the lav, it was easy to pick out the felled tree branches.

One thing that I wish had been around sooner is styrofoam. It is cold to sit on trbrinken when it's
thirty degrees outside. Then shits in the shortest possible time. They do not draw down his pants too
completely, but try to sit a little bit on the waistband for not getting the wood against your thighs.
But today's Styrofoam rings are good, they are very hot to sit on.
There were no lights to the privy or crappy bar. Lyse used only when the drivers had night gave the
horses. They must have lights in the house and had stolen lantern. If a driver got the idea to shit
after entering the horse so he took with him when he stole the lamp came from the stables, and
crapped in lighting. But otherwise, lit the lamp, never to go and shit. It had been a luxury and
extravagance.
Do not piss in the shithouse
Men never went and peed in the shithouse. It was the cleanliness, because it would not get wet on
the brink. They had a place solely baki hut where all men pissed. It was called piss knot. Most
preferably, the winter must not piss anywhere. It gets so ugly in the snow if you piss back and forth
in front of the hut. Aunts who were already old when I was a little boy stood straight like a man
when they peed. The only thing was that they took off the long skirt bit. They had specifically sewn
pants under her skirt. The trousers were open until, it was fitting that one could piss without having
to pull it down. Now ladies would not undress without further before men. But it was not so careful
with little boys, so then you had to see how they were dressed. It was just great-aunts who had this
open trousers. Well they were born around the mid-1800s. Younger women had pants that
resembled today's underpants, intact and tight forward. The old pants were homemade, it was an
invention that people made themselves. I do not know why they made with the model.
Home at farms pissed men anywhere nearly the barn, a little overshadowed. If you woke up at night
and have to pee, it could perhaps be tempting to just go out on the bridge. Even more so if it rained.
But it was forbidden. In the winter, it will be ugly in the snow, in summer nothing noticeable
immediately, but pissing you many times in the same place it starts to smell bad. It was pretty damn
careful not to piss on the bridge, it was a hard rule.
Another old rule was to not pee in lakes. It was a good rule, I think that it somehow was cleanly
before. When I was growing up, there were no sewers and drains. There was an unknown Given
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Laven used when shit with crooked arm, as it was called. This means that there is no privy, without
just sit where you are in the woods. The crooked arm, the arm that holds the dick, it must be held
down so you do not piss in your pants. When there is snow, you can not sit down right away,
because then ended aschle in the snow. First you kick a hole, so you can fit the seat.
Crown snow-load, a lot of snow in the trees, is not a major problem. Laven is quite protected under
the twigs. And it is not needed as much lichen, a couple of balls. I usually wipe it twice, first rough
dry, then finely hurricane. In winter, it rhymes in the trees sometimes and then hold first
lavsuddarna HANDS rhyme thaws. It does not get wet talking about.
Lichens are also used in the summer, if you happen to be along a nice spruce. Lav is better than
moss, for it is usually dry. Moss is always semi-moist and feels cold, how sunny it is. If it rains try
to avoid moss, for it becomes so wet. We prefer lichen from a dense spruce, where it is drier. Or else
take the moss that grows, for example, in the shelter of a rock. When you are always in the woods,
you learn to see everything. You go and look and notice for example that there is moss that rain is
not reached, here I can take a dump. But the first rule is to avoid that shit when it rains, not to get
rain in his underwear and clothes. Is it really had you put in the shelter under a tree, with his back
against the trunk.
Snow
Is nothing so dry it with snow. It's an emergency! If you have Rnnskita and must be shitting where
you stand when the snow is closest at hand. It wipes or wash themselves in some way, perhaps you
take four or five handfuls of snow after another. It's mine and when it's thirty degrees below zero
and freezing enough already before pulling down his pants. Then it is not so inviting to take a
handful of snow in aschle. However it goes, there is nothing else to do! One can also try scraping
with a twig. You break it off and scrape with the broken end, but it will not be so clean. The snow is
more efficient, you dread into the final, but there is no turning back. There are there to this day. You
have to shit, heard you like it or not.
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When the snow should be thawed to water so dig in the ground after heavy snow. But to wipe her
aschle takes top snow, fresh snow holds together better than the old. If possible, as you design hugs
the snow into balls and wipe or scrape them, the bite best. When the weather is cold, it's hard to
squeeze up balls that hold, the snow is falling apart. Then you have to take Goder thick in his hand.
Sometimes they became mucky fingers. Washing was rubbing his hands with snow. It was not
always so clean. Then they ate food with the same hand and was as healthy anyway.
Hay and skoh
When myrhet driven home so had it nicely arranged. The wagon was a lot of toilet paper, several
cubic meters! If it was crap NECESSARY stayed only horse and took a handful of hay from the
wagon. When there was snow on the ground took grass from the ground. Not green grass without
the old dead forest litter or gammelfrna as we called it. Such are all the marshes, there we used to
pick. Litter is dry and comfortable. Fresh grass is disagreeable, it is moist and kylrt when it dries.

Rnnskita
Rnnskita existed before, but it was rare. It could go any stomach epidemic, but no more frequently
than today. Now called the diarrhea, that's Latin or French. People have always been a stomach bug,
even before they learned French. And then it was Rnnskita.
If tvrhastigt ate a lot of fresh meat had to Rnnskita. It was an illness that occurred before, but less
frequently today. In spring and summer, not slaughtered when they ate salted meat from the winter.
Maybe the thief shot one elk in summer, and ate his fill only on meat, several times in succession. It
almost ate only meat, not a lot of potatoes and other things besides meat. It was not like today when
lgjgarna has with him sausage and pork to the forest. The stomach was unaccustomed these meals
only on fresh meat, and so it became Rnnskita. But it was only one day, then it was immune. In
autumn, when the reindeer were slaughtered and fresh meat cooked so it happened again, they got
Rnnskita. Oddly, it did not happen when you ate fresh bird.

Old worn skoh, discarded hay that is no longer good enough to be in his shoes, was also used. At
home and in huts happened that they wore out old skoh to the shithouse. Skoh eventually
destroyed, it becomes crumbs and less and less hay left. That which does not crumble becomes
tubers. The hay is no longer possible to obtain smooth and even in the shoe, it becomes like
smknlar. Such skoh is time to change. Of course, the nice new hay much warmer. If the hay
starts to smell too much sweat discarded it too. Skoh absorbs sweat well, if one has a wool sock
closest to the foot and fills out the shoe with skoh so stick sock cleaner longer. Only several layers
of woolen socks gets dirty faster.

Kit Rod

Paper

The snow is not only a disadvantage when it snows it always looks neat and clean out baki rod. In
the spring, it will be different. When the snow melts, it becomes osnyggare, but not so disturbing.

I was godergammal before I used paper. The first papers that came was an occasional newspaper.
And there were people skeptical to use, it said that the ink sticks in aschle so you get diseases.
When I start to remember there was no wrapping paper in the shops. The sausage was hanging in
the rings in the ceiling. When you bought a hot dog thrown it only in a box, and so was the on
klkstegen. Waste paper to wrap the pork came last years of the twenties. Books have always been
around, but they did not dare to tear the paper off the books. If we could afford to buy a book, it was
a gem that did not get destroyed.
Less sticky sooner
Today, one might wonder how it was possible to scrape himself clean in aschle with a wooden
stick. There was one major difference, the shit was less sticky before! When the shit was generally
similar to barley harlortar. It was certainly that we ate different food. The big difference was that we
ate much less flour than you do today. Barley was grown in the villages, but it was not much. In the
1930s came in lrftsckar wheat flour, and it was mixed into barley flour. But it was a sensation if
anyone could afford to buy flour, there were no amounts. It could be any sandwich occasionally.
The culture that existed and was noticed in alimentation was potatoes.
The fish was our main food, we ate it every day of the year. Additionally, we ate meat, and drank
milk. They had cows, and there was no calf to slaughter. Sheep were also eating. In many farms had
their own reindeer marks and got reindeer. But even those residents who had not ate reindeer meat
reindeer mark.
There was a lot of bartering. Lingonberry is good for all meat and was a sought-after story. But the
patches were in the mountains and could not pick cranberries right time in the fall, so they switched
reindeer against lingonberries. Butter and milk were changed also against flesh, and cowhides. In
winter, used the patches, and even the most sedentary, shoes of reindeer skin. But summer shoes
without hair becomes weak enough, if they are made of reindeer skin. Cowhide keeps improving, so
it was changed also the reindeer
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The first building at a hut was to nail up a crappy bar between two trees. It was set up behind the
hut, a little remote but still close, thirty, forty yards away. It was all the convenience facility. It's
never fun to go out and shit when it's really cold, but it's worse when it snows for when it snows in
the clothes. When his pants pulled down, it snows in them. While sitting on the bar to get the pants
to be pulled over the knees, not to be filled all the time. But it is impossible to pull up his pants
sitting, you have to ask straight up when you are finished on the bar, and then when getting raging
snow from other clothes into his pants, before you have time to pull them up.

In the past there was a mark at the huts, which showed there was an unusual amount of snow the
winter before. There were two kit rods, one above the other! Then it snowed a lot and become
crowded in the bar. Feet ended up too high when you sat and pile behind the bar was high. Snandet
did that shit pile grew fast. Rather than shoveling away the snow and shit, so you nailed it with a
new rod ... If the first one was nailed firmly so it went down, if the man was trying to break loose it
and move it higher up. It was easier to nail a new bar above the old. They shat on two floors. It
seemed natural to nail the new bar in the same tree as the first, that was the least inconvenience.
There were already finished trodden path there and the snow in front of the bar was trampled and
hard. Had they nailed the other trees had had to wade and tread new paths. However, it was in
exceptional cases that a second rod must be nailed. It happened just a few winters, such as the
famous storsnvintern 1936th
Next winter, it was most likely less snow. If people came into the hut struck the loose upper rod. It
was too high up when the snow was thin in the fall. The feet did not reach down to the snow so it
became wobbly and uncomfortable to sit.
Ideally, was elected to the birch rod crap. The bark was not, birch bark is driest to sit on, the wood is
wetter. While the birch bark was soaked by thawing snow as it dried quickly. Unbarked birch rots
quickly, so every two years, the rod must be replaced. Crude spruce or pine is not good. The Kadar
in late winter when the sun shines. Although they do not bark was kdade those twigs sat. Dry pine
is not good, it attracts rain and wet snow as blotting paper and dries slowly. Another disadvantage is
that dry pine is pretty weak. Rough dry pine logs are of course, but a crappy rod should not be
rough, three, four inches is about right, five inches is becoming too much. If the rod is too rough so
it is easy to piss on it when sitting, and it skvittrar and splatters and is unpleasant. Therefore, a
crappy rod be moderate narrow. Dry pine would not really hold all times. The pole will tolerate a
couple of men sitting there at the same time, raw birch holds even if it is diluted.
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