Elijah Ravenscroft

Ben Adams wrote:Turned out it was not truly an egg allergy but a soy allergy coming via the eggs.

You may have just saved both a marriage and a life. 😂 Wife and I are two weeks from our first chicks, and she has a major soy allergy. I had no idea it could be transmitted that way, so now I know to feed soy-free.

Nicole wrote: What if the reason we have different names for flax and linen is because of that Norman invasion bringing French/latin names for the processed derivitive of the thing, and leaving the Germanic term for the thing itself."

You should check out the etymology of "tea", and why the are basically only two variations of name for it worldwide. Very interesting.

Jay Angler wrote:Plastics didn't take off until the 1950's.

Didn't Bakelite predate the Depression? That stuff was everywhere.

How've I just seen this thread?

Trying to make things work on a tiny patch of land in western KY. Nice to meet y'all.

Bless you! This is the only kind of loom I've had a time finding plans for!

Had anyone had any luck with DIY roll-out nest boxes? I'm having the hardest time decent plans to study to develop my own. Also, has anyone used any kind of angled gutter to collect them all in one place without breakage?

I appreciate all the new information I'm getting in this thread, but my main questions at this point are:

1) is it still financially feasible to do a hyperadobe house on a small budget in this way?

2) Even with (necessary) additional insulation?

I'm sorry I haven't gotten back to this thread yet; it wasn't giving me notifications like I asked it to.

I'm comparing the cost for a 16' x 10' stud walls (framing only) to a wall the same size made of hyperadobe.

The wooden framing is being figured as a 16' x 10' based on 2"x4"x16' treated boards for the top and bottom, and 2"x4"x10' studs on 16" centers.

The hyperadobe numbers are based on these calculations:

• On another site, I saw that a typical 18" x 30" individual earthbag winds up about 24" long after it's filled.


• The same site said an individual bag holds a out 100 lbs


• I've also been told the average course height is 4".


• I've been told that a good mixture is 64% sand, 30% clay, 6% cement. I'm figuring on that, even though the final mix just have different proportions.


• The clay is $30/ton and the sand is around $10-20/ton. The cement is about $5.50/80 lbs.


• The tubing I'm looking at is roughly 30¢/foot.


Given all that, a traditional 24" bag that holds 100 lbs in those proportions would be 30 lbs of clay, 64 lbs of sand, and 6 lbs of concrete. I figured the price/lb from the prices of the tons, worked up the cost for 24", then divided it half to get the price per linear foot for a single course. That came out to about 88¢ per foot.

Given a 4" course over a 10' tall wall, I'd need 3 courses/ft of height, meaning 30 courses. So I figured a section 1' long and 10' high would be around $26.37. Multiplying that by 16 (to compare the length of the stud wall), I came out with $421.92 per 16'x10' section.

Hope that helps. Seems clear as mud when I try to explain it.

Edit - I'm going to have to do a stud wall inside eventually anyhow, because the wife refuses to live in a place where she can't use a normal drill bit to hang pictures, and she hates the look of the interiors of earthbags building. Happy wife, happy life, and all that.