Wow, Dougals, sounds like an amazing life. Thank you. Glad to see the hexayurt passes muster with folks who know what they're doing!
I'm really getting pretty excited about ferrocement. I dunno whether I missed something fundamental along the way, some basic problem with it that nobody's mentioned and that I haven't seen written down but everybody I've talked to about it in person, and you folks here, all seem to say the same thing: dead easy to do, and totally overdelivers. It may just be one of those things which has been growing slowly and organically, and people get turned on to it one at a time. I should be doing a course with Engineers Without Borders over the summer, I'll shoot some video and let you know what I learn! Vinay On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:50 AM, douglas sherriff <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi folks > > Several of my buddies in the yalakom valley (bc) were faced with seriously > wicked fire conditions 2 years ago. The bush was exploding in mushroom clouds > within sight at least weekly, for about 2 months. > > So of course everyone got real serious about preventative measures. Places > without large course woody debris were still at risk from even foot high dead > grass, whatever, it was bad. High winds, high temps, everything bone dry and > hot (110F) for weeks. > > Several folks came up with a quick and dirty routine with glue nails or > poultry net staples holding very fine extruded metal mesh, and a 1/4 - 1/2 " > layer of a bagged mortar/cement (?) mix from the hardware store. the thing is > after 2 years of snow, rain, and sun they still look new, and have maintained > those outbuildings fire proof (resistant) status just fine with no flaking. > Some people even treated expensive gate and fence posts with a 2 foot collar. > > I am slowly designing a 6' x 8' wall, hexayurt complex (3, I think, with a > chloroplastic greenhouse in the interstitial space). As a hedge against > incipiently probable homelessness in the event my spouse caches in her chips > before i do.(and her old age pension) You can bet your boots a light > ferro-cement treatment will be high on my list of requirements. The added > weight would screw the mobility advantages right up, though I would bet 2 > guys could still pack a 4 x 8 slab on to a pickup. (maybe not too far though) > > I don't know what it's like down in usa land, but up here I've lived on crown > land (our land) for most of the past 50 years or so and as long as the > dwelling isn't permanently affixed to the ground, there isn't any problem. > Bullshit does usually baffle brains, and I always happen to be doing a > research project wherever I am. And can talk about it convincingly, and for a > long time. > > yours > > douglas > > Has anybody else noticed that there aren't enough lifeboats, and they aren't > televising the revolution either. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "hexayurt" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en. > > -- Vinay Gupta Free Science and Engineering in the Global Public Interest http://hexayurt.com - free/open next generation human sheltering http://hexayurt.com/plan - the whole systems, big picture vision "In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer" - Albert Camus Twitter/Skype/Gizmo/Gtalk/AIM: hexayurt UK Cell : +44 (0) 7500 895568 / USA VOIP (+1) 775-743-1851 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en.
