They saw that if the scaffolds were only high enough, the meat might be easily hung so as to be out of reach of the hyenas.

The only question was, how to place the cross-poles a little higher.

In the darkness they could not obtain a new set of uprights, and therein lay the difficulty.

How were they to get over it?
Hans had the credit of suggesting a way: and that was, to take out some of the uprights, splice them to the others, with the forked ends uppermost, and then rest the horizontal poles on the upper forks.

That would give a scaffold tall enough to hang the meat beyond the reach of either jackals or hyenas.
Hans's suggestion was at once adopted.