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Saturday - Day 1
5 days and 5 students x 5
hours of work. Lecture on thermal mass and earth buildings in the morning and view
"From the Ground Up, video on earthship construction after lunch. Caelum, Tracy and
the crew finish digging the 14' diameter hole at 3'-6" deep (due to the god forsaken
boulders found at about the 2' level) and pad to pour the concrete after the other
students have gone. Takes 6 people 2 hour to finish. Mutiny is lingering over
the camp, the students, 3 of the 5, have all declared had they known that we were going to
excavate that much dirt with shovels they would not have come. This is what a long days
work looks like
Excavated pit with the pouring of the viga pad
and door buck pad
Pit
with rammed earth tires on earth shelf with 4' rebar in center
JT and the local Mosier solar gurus
Rammed Earth tires
Akai screening soil for the rammed
earth mix
Tarped Strawbales with solar panels
in background