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Build a hut out of whatever materials are at hand. Good stuff! Lots more on this site.
Lotta good survival and outback info as well as links to a lot of other info. Thanks to Steve for the link!
Whiskyfun by Malt Maniacs’ Serge
Whisky and music site. Lotta links to downloadable mp3s as well as a LOT of whisky reviews. Cool stuff!
Arrowheads and Obsidian knives by Obsidian Arts
Cool flintnapping site.
Quick note to wish everyone a happy holiday season!
Will be back to our regularly disorginized posting sometime in the near future. 😉
Dave
If you are thinking conventional construction check elsewhere. This is old style mixed with some new stuff. I use a tractor and chain saw. But I also have T augers to make big holes and use an axe and hatchet a lot in my building. A lot of things get put together with sheetrock screws but a lot of things get wood peg fasteners too. Some of my joints are mortise and tenion held together with rock screws. Tis whatever works easiest and best at the time.
Url for the album is:
http://www.technoprimitive.org/roundHouseConstruction/index.html .
The pix are commented to some extent. For discussion post here.
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To be more accurate, the 12 foot 2 inch long 14 inch by 16 inch cedar tree trunk has been placed in an upright position and braced. 4 layers of black 4 mill plastic were placed below on the ground to prevent at least some contact. Should last 20 years or so anyway.
Building is going to be 24 feet in diameter with a 8 foot outside wall height. That will give a 4 foot drop in 12 feet which with a shake (wood shingle) roof should give good water runoff. This diameter will give us about 450 square feet to work with.
Rafters will be young trees with a 4 to 5 inch bottom diameter and a 1 1/2 to 2 inch top diameter. I’m thinking about using umbrella style bracing from about 8 feet up on the center pole to the mid point on the rafters to remove any remaining sway or flex. Rafters every 24 inches at the outside of the header will mean we will need 38 pieces 15 feet long. Cross pieces can be anything from limbs to boards. Will probably use a lot of the scrap from the 3 dump truck loads of old lumber for these.
Side support posts will be every 6 feet so we will need 12 posts. The opening at the main door will be a bit over 7 feet wide to make up for an inch here and there. This will also let me put windows on the sides of the door for light.
Side support posts will rest on rock. Have already got all but 3 pieces of limestone in place. Got a lot of digging and filling to do yet but should be a lot easier with the rain we are getting at the moment. Will fill in between these post supports with other rock and broken cement to a height of about 18 inches where we’ll put a sill board to attach the bottom of the canvas to.
Side walls will start out as canvas. Have two pieces that Mihel brought over to use for spawn points but it was too heavy for the rope they had so he donated them to the cause. They are 6.5 feet wide and one is about 35 feet long and the other is around 50 or so. Should be plenty to cover the sides of the building. Alternating red and white canvas strips sewn together. Will be hard to miss.
More as I get it together. Trying to get pix as it goes up. This should be the first of many of these buildings. 😉
The Joy of Tech comic… A Michael Moore Christmas.
Spot on. Too bad about the kids… 😉
This weekend is the big Bay of Pigs 2 game here at the Weaver Combat Ranch so postings have been few and far between with us trying to get things ready. Expect nothing post wise from now till it’s all over. 40 + eating and right now the count of players is somewhere around 60 so is gonna be hectic the next few days.
I am using the half and half mix right now. Half beeswax and half petroleum jelly melted and mixed together seems to be about right. Toward summer it may be a bit too soft but will have to wait and see. Course in the summer I tend to cut the facial fungus back a bit due to the heat here in the south.
HTML Color Code Combination Chooser
For those in the web design business tis one to bookmark.
Everything you ever wanted to know about wind chill. Cool! Kinda like today… 😉
For anyone interested in the latest and greatest map with pix it’s located at http://combatranch.technoprimitive.org/wp/map.html. Be warned if you use Safari or Konqueror that it WILL crash your browser. Firefox/Seamonkey, Opera, and IE (shutter) all work fine. No idea what the problem is but suspect it is a Java related bug. Not sure if it is in my code or the google API but will keep working on it to see if I can figure it out.
Damn big elephant…
“Ann” Anopheles Mosquito – By Dr. Seuss
Wonderful WWII piece by Dr. Seuss about the dangers of malaria and the importance of keeping mosquitos away. Good stuff.
Black & White, Birmingham’s City Paper
Customer Confidential
A new Black & White consumer column helps you fight bad service, bad products, and bad ideas.
By David Pelfrey
November 16, 2006
Here’s a scenario that is familiar to anyone who has ever set foot in Wal-Mart, CVS, Rite-Aid, or any of a dozen other major retailers. After you have made a purchase, collected your bags, or packed everything into a shopping cart, you head for the exit. Just as you approach freedom an alarm sounds (usually a sequence of ugly, electronic grunts) and a robotic voice (always female) announces: “Please return to the checkout.†Other customers immediately look in your direction, and an employee begins to approach you. What’s your next move?
Tell them to stuff it and walk out! I love it! Well worth the read. Thanks go to Steve for the link.
Scientists find first known human ritual – LiveScience – MSNBC.com
Interesting stuff! Makes me wonder just how long humans have had a form of civilization. Time does tend to remove all traces…
San Diego to ban Wal-Mart Supercenters – Yahoo! News
Another win for the good guys!
UNEASYsilence » The Tank Paint Ball Gun
Now these are some SERIOUS paint ball dudes!
Treehugger: Sweet Potatoes beat Green Roofs at Sinking Heat Islands
Good idea. Gonna have to look into something like this for the q-hut. 😉
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