Today we got the forms set up to build papercrete "logs". That is, instead of pouring our papercrete in to forms which we move up the walls as we go, we are pouring long one foot by one foot by 10 foot 'logs' which we will stack up to make the walls. We've got the vertical posts up on the big cabin, but we don't have the beams up because we haven't found a way to get the biggest 24 foot long 4 by 12 from town. Most of the wood we're using we milled from trees on the property, but this one needs to be good, and we didn't have anything approaching that size.
Back to the logs, the idea is that we could pour these quickly, have them partially dry, and then stack them up. To keep them from breaking, we've tried laying in some willow branches. If we could find cheap bamboo we'd use that, but we've got willow on site, so we're using that instead. Over dinner we were debating how long we'd have to let the 'logs' sit before we could pick them up and move them. I took a bunch of photos but we need to recharge the camera batteries before i can upload the photo.
Gaba has moved over the cabin blog to cabin.protest.net and we've got some talk floating around about creating an alternative / off the grid construction wiki.
Oh, in other news, i've created a gmail account, so if you wan to email me, try anarchogeek@gmail.com.
Posted by rabble at August 23, 2004 04:07 AM | TrackBack