Off Grid Earthbag Workshop Part 6 foundations
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2018
- I finally got around to getting the foundations in for the workshop. the next step is to start filling bags.
if you want to come and help out and leanr some new skills email Diyharbor@gmail.com
www.KrisHarbour.co.uk
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2 weeks between videos is agonizing! you need a full time camera operator/vlogger to follow you around all day lol, the stuff you do is so interesting, well explained, and a little bit addictive to follow along. keep it up mate!
Someone should volunteer.
Everyone's a know-all, I know, but the problem you were having taking smaller buckets of gravel because of the slope can be overcome by angling the machine with the dozer blade facing the slope. Then lower the blade to slightly raise the machine. This massively increases stability and I've found it reduces the amount of shaking around you get in the cab when excavating too. Love the channel, keep doing interesting stuff :)
I am watching your videos for the second time. Am very proud to see a youn man go after his dreams. Im sixty now and let my dreams slide by years ago. Keep up the great job your doing and let nothing or no one stop you.
Leonard Cohen - "I was 73, just a kid with a crazy dream ."
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I think Kris has been very inspiring for a lot of people. A real credit to society. And you are not the only one, Komer West to feel the way you do. We have been programmed to not believe in ourselves. Don't be hard on yourself 🤗 Makes me want to motivate myself and start believing in myself. Much love to you ♥️🏴♥️
It was a nice surprise seeing pop up in that Homes on The Edge mini doco, it's cool knowing that even more people will be finding you and following you on your journey.
That's brilliant, good solid base you wont have issue, it doesn't get cold enough there to ever freeze that deep.
I just caught the featurette "Homes on the Edge" on Barcroft TV of your "hobbit house!" After watching all your vids along the journey, it was great to see that major media did a feature on your works. I think what you have accomplished is beyond amazing! Always look forward to your next video & so glad to see your Dot!
Its all very exciting seeing it come together.
Another epic vid Kris and I just wish I had the dedication and urgency you have to escape from the system.
I am lucky to live near woodlands to briefly escape from on-grid living but need to return to the ingrown comforts of on-grid living due to its familiarity.
The problem is I have a few medical conditions, so I doubt I could completely escape from the system which is probably doing me more damage than good, so I guess the best thing I can do right is enjoying and heavily appreciating your efforts and achievements which are great.
Keep up the good work!!
This is a huge construction project! Very well thought out and executed. Quite amazing work.
Just saw you on barcroft tv Kris. Very happy for you, you deserve the best.
You are a very industrious young man! Great job!
This is awesome to see you on your way with this project Kris! I can't wait to see the final product! It looks like when you're finished you'll have a massive finished space to work in there!
Glad to see you back at the shop. Awesome video as alway, one of my favorites channels that I follow. 😃
Again.... I am so proud of you Kris. This is going to be another great accomplishment. Bloody well done. X
Love the STAFF leveling stick. Awesome.
Greetings from Poland! You are doing proper job:) I used to live in London for to Long. One day Im gonna build for myself too:)
Wow labour intensive and you've only just started. I loved watching you build your cabin so this will also be interesting. Cheers👍
Wonderful work ... so much progress, I love your channel 👍
Be neat to get a mixer where you mixed dirt from the building site to make cobb. Then the cobb has water activated ceramic in it so that the cobb ounce in it's shape or configuration cured rock hard. Even mix up cobb and water activated ceramic with the mixture being extruded filling earth bags that you then laid in place pounded down with the the cobb in the earth bag curing rock hard. 😊
Wow that project is huge!
So excited to see the work on the workshop continue, wish I could be there to help. Looking good!
Exciting. Great progress.
Exciting to see the start of the earthbag build. If I weren’t “across the pond”, I would love to come out and learn a thing or two & help fill bags ... I sure hope you find enough volunteers. Make sure to video that progression ... may seem boring to you, but us “fans” love seeing the whole process.
Good job Kris, the man cave is ready for bagging! Did send an email last week, but I'm sure there will be more work to do in the future! ;-)
Really impressive!!
Best UA-cam channel. Great job 👍
Good job well done
Make a pond / mini lake out front! From the soakaway/drainage. Could test some water related projects, even make a little boat ;)
Great job,
Good job.
Nice work. 👍
Could of got a riddle bucket for the machine and seperated all the stone and soil, takes time but free stone and good soil
Well thought out..
Kris you should keep your rain drains and your foundation drains separate. The foundation drains don't need all that extra water going through they only need to catch the water that's coming out of the ground. The surface runoff and the rainwater downspouts should take a separate path as to not overwhelm the foundation drains unnecessarily. I think you should run your rain drains higher up in the dirt after you've back filled around the building and just scratch them into the surface. Also I recommend using solid ABS or PVC pipe and not having drainage pipe for your rain drains you want to take all the rain water that you can away from the building. I always enjoy watching your videos been watching for a long time keep it up. Cheers
The pipe is just running under then foundation to keep it out of the way. the whole downspout system is sealed. it isnt draining and flowing through the foundation. it goes under the foundation and around the building. and small amount of water that makes it to the foundation can drain through the stone but the roof water goes around the building and down the hill in a sealed pipe.
Nice.
I really like your level.
I wish you all the best with the build of the shop Kris. Hopefully you get plenty of strong energetic volunteers to help fill bags and I am even more hopeful that you get hours upon hours of video for us to watch. 🤞🤞
Unfortunately the shop looks smaller than what I remember you and Hannah laying out back in the spring and your stairway looks too narrow once you factor in 2 bag walls.
I am sure it will all work out great.
Good vid!
This is quite the project, but I have no doubt you will finish it, as I've seen what you've done in the past.
Use PVC!!!! We just had to rip up my yard to fix broken corrugated pipe, everywhere.
super00k it is pvc flexi pipe
3 years on and look at it!
Great work done so far! :-)
I was wondering if it would be easier to leave the floor level below the stairs and then make them dry on a bed of gravel and then put a wooden staircase in instead of the earthbag staircase?
You could have some storage under the stairs if you made it with drawers in the risers or something?
You should dump any excess power you get into an hho splitter compress the gasses then you can use a hydrogen fuel cell to get tons of power when needed a car battery sized power cell can be up to 6,000 watts of power
Woof. I'm glad my land doesn't have a slope.
Mhm, we've done mostly some felt (beside stones) over the drainage, that not even sand can go in. But there shouldn't happen anything without it, i'd say. :)
Have a nice Weekend
green is all crap people are destroying our planet if you wanna be green stop breeding
u sir, got some serious problems it seems like.
no probs just you pretending to be green
show me where i pretented to be.
just me a wind up merhant love your vlogs sorry man(love all the cheesy coments i get i,m a tradicional plasterer 62 years old have a beer now and then been doing my job since i was 14 yo good luck and thank,s never been unemployed self eployed
are you going to make a Jig stand out of wood to hold the bags as you fill them? it will save you a lot of having someone hold it as you fill them. just a suggestion.
I saw the thing you’re talking about! It was kinda brilliant. They used a digger machine to fill a dozen bags in one go. It was amazing to watch. I’d bet Kris could fashion a similar thing, he’s so talented and creative!
Kristyanna Virgona That is indeed the plan.
LM Hall do you have a video to that?
Jeffrey Cruz Sorry I don’t. Can’t remember where I even saw it, but it looked like a nursery filling bags with soil, if that helps.
LM Hall Thanks, buddy. I’ll look for it and share the link if I find it.
Is moisture going to be an issue in the wet months? Will you need some kind of damp course? Amazing job! Atb.
You say in the intro that you're "making the walls level…" I presume you mean plumb. Is there some place in this series where you go into detail about retainment? This is a sticking point for me in my plans to build partially sub-grade with earth bags. We have good, clay soil on my land but I'd hate to have the walls start to come in when I'm old. Any resources you can recommend to guide me?
Kris, have you watched the Grand Designs episode about the commune in Wales and the guy building the house with the earth bags. It looked a lot like what you are doing, even his floor plan.
Pio Egan They're friends. He helped to build that house and the owner helped him to design this building.
I thought i saw some similarities. Thats awesome, Kevin McCloud would be very interested in this build. Great work.
Chris how do we donate ? You are so inspiring !
i thought mud house were cheap to make :) my mistake...
how to further reduce cost any top tips
So: DRINK!
So: DRINK!
So: DRINK!
LOL
Does englang not have building regulations or how is it possible for you to build a house like this?great video
Barcroft did a report on the roundhouse build, pretty cool, link through Reddit if anyones interested: www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/92n3lx/the_guy_who_made_his_own_home_barcroft_tv_report/
Have you taken concepts from the Venus Project - Jacque Fresco? circular building etc..
thats weird i had no notification of your video posting
ram1brn
Me too. UA-cam must be making “improvements”. 😉
how has the heat and no rain affected the micro water generation?
I see you that you are a famous now...;-0
nitpicking time, level is horizontal iirc, plumb is vertical. just a minor irritant to me
Words have multiple definitions. Yours is certainly one of them.
I don't get how you can tell if it is level with that tool. I have got the water leveller but the way I use is different than what you have done. One end of my water leveller is stationary while I use the other end to do the check.
the two water levels are aligned and then you sight down it with your eye until it lines up with the measurement stick. it then tells you if you are lower or higher than the measurement stick. it is very accurate.
@@KrisHarbour it would be awesome if you could do a short video on this. i understand that water always finds level but i don't under stand how your seeing it against your reference measuring stick, thanx in advance :) as Baris noted the buniyup way to use a water tubes a static end.
@@blairphillips766 its really very simple, you have a tube in a u shape, the water in the tube self levels, you sight down the two levels with your eye and see where they line up on the measuring stick. whatever the difference is is the elevation difference. it no different from a laser level. your eye becomes the laser and the level is the water.
@@KrisHarbour i guesse because i didn't see the measuring stick in the video it got me... loving the videos.. what camera/mic did you ended up with to perfect your sound?
Did you build your own round house and did you record it
Great Vid, The excavator raped my headphones though haha
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Finally! Not another project building a bathroom for your girlfriend LOL
doosan =두산...
Do you have permission to do this? It may well end in tears for you.
GOOD WORK KRIS BUT PLEASE LOSE THE CROCKS++++++++++++++
Kris - is the email address in the description correct? Harbor is spelt Harbour in your channel name.
/ JJB
That is correct. Harbor is how he spelled it because harbour was gone.
crap
Explain
how comes?
John Glynn . I believe this to be satire?
wee save the earth bring on ww3 get rid of mankind then earth will be green
wee all start again cool bring it on
Two weeks between videos is insufficient, my friend:)
I've seen in the background a big green (ex military?) excavator. Is it operational? Hoped to see it in these videos vice the rental gear.