i DEFINITELY prefer your method. What innovation! Who would have thought that getting closer and TRUSTING your family would be a good way to do it! (used long stick and paint roller here too.......)
SURE beats flipping it upside down and trying to do it on your back... T-shirt I GOT taht... and bruises as the top lifted away and smacked me to the ground! !!! On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:59 PM, William Ozier <[email protected]> wrote: > I built my 1st hexayurt at Burning Man this year. I learned alot, but > the main thing I learned is that Hexayurts rock! B4 the burn I told > everyone in my camp about them and told people if they bought the > materials I would build it for them....no one did. I made 2, one for > me and 1 as a community room for the camp. At the end of the burn > everyone in my camp said they want a hexayurt for next year. If only > they had listened to me from the beginning. Anyway, to build it we > first loosely taped the walls together to hold them in the basic > shape. We then assembled the roof and then lifted the roof and put it > on top of the walls and then did the final serious taping to bring the > whole thing together. The one snag we bumped into was assembling the > roof panels. Once they begin to take on their pyramidal shape you > can't reach out to put tape on them. The nearby hexayurt village camp > with 36 hexayurts used two pick up trucks with a ladder suspended > between them, they built the roofs under the ladder and then someone > could shimmy out and do the taping. However I did not have a pickup > truck and ladder so we have to get creative. We came up with a fun and > effective way of doing it that required some team work, trust and > acroboatics. The picture I attached to this e-mail basically explains > it all I think, but some tips: get tall people!, the holder and the > holdee have to put their feet right up against each other which > prevents both of them from sliding, the holder and holdee should each > others wrists not hands because hands get slippery from sweat. If you > master this technique it makes building hyurts alot easier and doesn't > require ladders and other equipment. > > Wes Ozier > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 3:20 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter > Project) <[email protected]> wrote: > > Aha, that's fabulous! Do you have an email address / contact info for > > Chip or whoever did logistics for the party by any chance? > > > > Vinay > > > > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:16 AM, Shannon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> So this is the story. > >> > >> The camp was a birthday party for a member of Braf - Chip Conley (great > guy). You can you tube him / Ted talk .... > >> > >> > >> On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) > wrote: > >> > >>> I'd love to know the story, and more pics would be wonderful! > >>> > >>> Vinay > >>> > >>> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:33 AM, Shannon <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> I have a friend that was involved in building them, but I forget who > they were for. > >>> i could find out I suppose. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Sep 15, 2010, at 6:18 PM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter Project) > wrote: > >>> > >>> > The quest for the proper door continues... that right balance between > form and function. > >>> > > >>> > I found the pic of the village - that's *amazing*!!! > >>> > > >>> > http://twitpic.com/2ot3yk > >>> > > >>> > I sceenshotted it out of the presentation. > >>> > > >>> > **Fascinating** > >>> > > >>> > I wonder who it was? > >>> > > >>> > Vinay > >>> > > >>> > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Tom Brown <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> > Image 66 in this slide show has a shot of the huge hexayurt array... > I estimated 30 or 40 identical yurts when I rode past it: > >>> > > >>> > > http://www.nbcbayarea.com/around-town/events/Best-Burning-Man-Ever-102550819.html?ref=nf > >>> > > >>> > Can't attach the photo unfortunately because it's embedded in a flash > slideshow. > >>> > > >>> > I can however attach a picture of my own yurt... 3rd year for my > "tall door" 1.5" R-max hexayurt, and although it's getting a little beat up, > with some repairs it should last another burn or two. I think I finally > figured out how to construct the roof properly -- three pre-taped accordion > pieces, with the "odd triangle" over the tall door a double layer of thin > plywood that I screw together on playa. Still need to work some bugs out of > the roof assembly process though, first attempt was to build the roof on the > ground then lift it into place. Didn't quit work out and it ended up > flattening out, but we were able to push it back into shape and tape it in > place. > >>> > > >>> > -Tommy Legba, Semuta Lounge Pod, Silicon Village. > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Vinay Gupta (Hexayurt Shelter > Project) <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > hahaha that's great! I wonder who it was? I keep a fairly close eye > on new hexayurt stuff on Google and I didn't see any public mention of large > scale construction... > >>> > > >>> > *fascinating* > >>> > > >>> > Well, I guess I wait for pictures to show up online. 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