Kyle's Permie Bootcamp (BRK)

BRK Post 142

Fred made use of boot labor today, so all of us went over to his plot and tended to the trees and growies there.

Grey and I moved some peeled logs and mulched the baby trees. It sounds easy but it entailed pushing wheelbarrows of mulch through brush.

Then later in the day I got to finish my dry stack wall at the greenhouse. It took a few more courses of rock and a bunch of buckets of gravel behind the wall. Josiah, Dez, and Grey all needed gravel and I needed more right away, so I fetched a truck load of gravel at the gravel pile. Then finished off the wall with the last course and dirt behind it.

Josiah had us start boring a hole through the Abby for the greywater pipe going to the greenhouse. We had time to poke through but didn’t have the pipe to test fit. So we switched to mulching on top of the greenhouse to finish the day.


Kind of a mish mash of a day.

K Post 116

I used the last PTJ day to setup the sauna rocket heater. We brought everything we needed up the the project, got the brick platform laid out, the wall shielding up, started to level out the core... and broke a brick. So I went back down to basecamp to make a replacement.

With that fixed, we filled up around the core with sand, set the riser on top, sealed the feed with cob, and popped the barrel over top.

Making the hole for the chimney included climbing onto the roof and using the circular saw to plunge cut down through the shingles. Then we found out we didn't have enough chimney pipe and had to make another trip to grab more pipe.

Once everything was in place we started the first ever rocket heated sauna, worked perfectly. Of course the structure still needs benches, to reroute the chimney under the long bench, probably some vents, a bunch of trim work, and vestibule improvements. But none of that is very difficult, optimistically a week of work.


Kyle, do you have an update on the sauna? I’d love to see the finished project!