PEP BB naturalbuilding.sand.rocklevel - Use rocks to level a skiddable structure

so, is the only way to badge in natural building to be able to, for example, skid a structure ? Second question, what about work we have already completed ?

Debi Baker wrote:so, is the only way to badge in natural building to be able to, for example, skid a structure ? Second question, what about work we have already completed ?

It only works if you have the required pics.  Did you take the required pics?

This BB takes a while if you don't have a skiddable structure!  So first I built a skiddable "farm stand" in the driveway.  Then we wheeled it out by the mailbox and leveled it.

It's definitely sturdy enough to skid, I just put wheels under it so that we could roll it with people power instead of hooking up the garden tractor.  And so I wouldn't mark up the driveway or yard.  We also don't have rocks around our place.  In digging about 80 post holes I've accumulated about a 5 gallon bucket of gravel and two rocks the size of a basketball.  So I dug out the spare/repurposed/used blocks and bricks we keep for jobs like this and put them to use.

Here is my skid. I wanted to do this before the building was built because of how much easier it would be to lift the logs up with a jack.

Here is a photo showing the structure

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Holy smokes, Mike! That is the cutest farm stand I have ever seen!!! Are those pallet boards for the siding? I'd like to put a similar siding on my she shed. Did you plane them? are they all flat, side by side, or did you fit them together with a tonge and groove method?

Thanks!  They are pallet boards, unplaned and just touching one another.  I figured I had enough overhang that they didn't need to be fancy and a bit of airflow would be beneficial.  It got blown over backwards in some wind this week and took a bit of work to get lifted back up.  But it held together without noticeable damage

Here's my submission to the bb make a rock foundation. I did it under the little skiddable coop i have.

I completed this BB at the SKIP 2023 event at Wheaton Labs. I leveled a skiddable sauna that was, at the same time, in the process of being insulated with slipstraw by other folks. Somehow we all managed to work simultaneously without a problem. So the before/after pics are different from each other a bit more than usual.

Due to the location and everything going on, it was difficult to get really clear before/after pictures of the whole structure, so I hope you can see what I did. I've included the following:

-Images of the sauna before work--the door end resting on the ground, the back end up on logs and a jack, but the whole thing tipped towards the back end.
-Action shot of me at work, and one of the jack, pea gravel I put under the rocks (for additional protection against sand--I was told it was the most durable approach), and a rock
-Images of leveled sauna

Thanks!

Hannah and I wove this metal frame to create my first ever skiddable structure! It's our new outhouse. The spot where I want to put it slopes a bit. So I used gravel and sand I pulled out of a hole for my mulch pit. It helped level the right spot. Rocks to the rescue!