Walking around the open-air museum, looking at woodworking workshops and workshops or at the landscape full of trees and watercourses, it is not possible to overlook the topic of rafting, likely to be the best illustration of man’s co-existence of with nature even though few remember the importance of the river that gave its name to the whole region once had for Orava, and few still know words such as 'pełt' and 'pełtnik' meaning a raft and a raftsman. Pełty floated down the Orawa river. They swayed stately on the water, floating monotonously as if they were to travel the same route forever. They disappeared down the river one after another, as Antoni Grelak remembers, because the floating of timber from the Babia Góra forests to the south was still a matter of course at the beginning of the 20th century and generated considerable income for the local population. The start was by the weir on Czarna Orawa river in Jabłonka, above the Gęste Domy. First, thick tree trunks that were toppled over the winter and stored were joined together. Manual saws, drills and carpenter’s axes were used for this purpose. People worked hard by the river at the time of high water in the spring, and one raft after another were being released  from their tethers while other were being prepared. Workers had to hurry to take advantage of the high water and sometimes had to spend nights by the fires. The beginning of the journey was very difficult due to the winding riverbed combined with low water levels so that rafters needed a strong physique, experience and good knowledge of the river. It was easier once they reached Ústia but, in Lower Orawa, the river was dangerous and treacherous again. Timber was usually delivered to Kraľovany where there was a harbour but experienced rafters often took the Wag river to go further, to Žilina or even to Budapest on the Danube. Entire days were spent on a raft and, late in the evening, the rafters would land to spend the night on their rafts. The rafters and their small horses went to the war, Antoni Grelak remembers, and the work on the river stopped […] Water has taken the weir, there is no trace of it anymore. You cannot see the calm surface of the water above the weir, no one would guess that the backwater was so long that it reached the entire length of the high banks on the left side of the river. One cannot hear the hum of the river, which people from Gęsty Dom considered a certain sign of changing weather.