We had another small work party in early November that got us to around 85% complete. Over the latter half of November we knocked out lots of detail work and the bottle walls.
Here’s a video recap:
And here are some stills with more details:
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| Ferrying straw bales to the worksite |
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| Mixing the slip. |
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| Adding dirt to the slip |
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| I determined that the bulk dirt we were getting had about 15% clay content. To bump up the clay content of the slip I added a couple of bags of powdered clay to each barrel of slip to get the total clay content to around 25%. Adding the powdered clay was a touch dusty hence the respirator. |
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| Currell and Cameron working on the bathroom walls. The goal of third and final work party was to finish the walls of the bathroom and the office/guest bedroom. |
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| Currell traveled in from Georgia to help out for a few days. |
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| Jean applying her well calibrated foot to apply an even 30 PSI of pressure to the straw light clay |
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| Looking sharp for the ever watchful site foreman |
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| Henry assists in putting up the form work. |
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| Building up the bottle wall. The forms worked extremely well keeping the bottles in place while we added cob. |
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| For the bottle wall we used cob instead of straw light clay. This is a particularly strawy bit of cob |
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| Bringing up cob. |
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| Finishing the middle bottle wall. Jean is finishing a section of wall that had been obstructed by scaffolding. |
Looking forward to finishing touches! Great job!!
Loved the walk through. Much bigger than I had thought. Impressive
Does this mean that the tumbler will be retired?