I've just begun to learn welding and I'm eager to see what design you've come up with.
As for your 20 minutes and one person rule, I think you're on to something. Many plans never reach completion on the playa because they take too long and require too many people to finish. I did, however, build my hexayurt so I could assemble it by myself. I lay out a tarp for the floor and the wall placement has already been marked on the tarp when I test assembled it at home. The walls are accordion folded so I can set them up as two sections that require only two wall junctions to be taped during assembly, and I simply move them in place to follow the marker lines on the tarp. The roof is folded as a single unit and only needs one joint to be taped for assembly. The only time I need help is to lift the roof and place it on the yurt walls, so this is a one-minute task I can accomplish with anyone who happens to be in the area. Final positioning and taping the roof to the yurt I can do alone. It's all a matter of planning ahead of time. On Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:19:32 AM UTC-7, Bender of camp charlie the uniocorn BM wrote: > > Background. > Me. Law school dropout, Learned to weld. Fabricated Stock cars. > Joined the electricians union. (IBEW local 11) economy took a shit. > I had free time. Always wanted to go to burning man. No money. > Decided to help a group with my welding and get a ticket and have a > home for 2012. Sent a quick email to a regional director of burners > in Los Angeles asking if any needed help. Three hours later I was > committed. > > The Unicorn > > Burning Man 2011. Spent 8 weeks welding a giant silly art car for > Burning Man. These people were strangers with a silly dream. And I > bought into it, Camp got me a ticket. I was left packing in hefty > bags and whatever container I could find night before we left. My > shelter was a large tent. I showed up to BM exhausted. I left the same > way. I had a blast as the playa will love you if you selflessly give > to a project. > I watched people and groups and discovered a truth. > > Twenty minutes and one person. That is my rule. If you HAVE TO to > accomplish anything on the playa it had better be able to be > substantially completed in twenty minutes and and with one person > (you). (lol including sex? one burner asked me about this thought. I > smiled. Yes.) > > I watched the people. From large and small. Burning Man is the Super > Bowl and World Cup of all people watching. Group dynamics fascinate > me. And I realized there would be more yurts on the playa if it took > less than three people to put together. If you try to round up more > that three burners for a task it becomes like herding cats. > > Now this idea/goal of anything being able to be completed in under 20 > with one person presents a challenge to the yurt builders. > > And watching them built i realized the two major parts to the project. > Two smaller parts. The upright walls were one major part. The roof > the second. > > And I knew I was going to yurt in 2012 (playa gods should they smile) > and I wanted more room than the traditional 4" high yurt i had seen > everywhere. > > Being a metal fabricator and welder I figured things out and came up > with MY solution. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hexayurt/-/CraiLerGLZEJ. 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.
