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THE ABOVE VIDEO IS OF MANNUALLY COMPACTED EARTH INSTEAD WET COMPACTION/CURE OF A CEMMENT MIXED ADOBE , BUT IT IS A GOOD GUIDE PLUS THEY TOO END WITH A GREEN ROOF , another good visual aid in creating postive expectation   
HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO HAVE THE MONEY READY IN THE BANK , SO YOU HAVE NO MORTAGE TO HAVE A 5 ACRE ESTATE WITH 5 HOMES AND A POND .
HOW MANY YEARS WOULD YOU HAVE TO SAVE ALL YOUR MONEY TO HAVE SOME ONE ELSE BUILD IT FOR YOU ?  40 YEARS WORKING AJOB YOU HATE ?
.   BUILD THE CAMP HOME TO LIVE IN TILL YOUR FIRST HOME IS COMPLETED 4 MONTHS +/-      RIB AND SKIN 16X16  PV SOLAR WOOD STOVE COMPOST TOLIET
IT WILL TAKE 3 YEARS TO BUILD EVERY THING BASED UPON THE 10 SECOND MODEL OF 1 SCOOP OF DIRT DUG PER 10 SECONDS PLACED ON THE TRAILER TO MOVED INTO THE BUILDING CYCLE.
THE TRAILER CARRYS 20 CUBIC FEET , THE CEMEMNT MIXER PROCESSES 5 CUBIC FEET ,
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1 LOAD DUG AND PLACE IN THE MORNING SHOULD TAKE ABOUT 1 HOUR BEFORE YOU GO TO WORK , THEN DO 1 OR MAYBE 2 MORE LOADS WHEN YOU GET HOME . IN 2 TO 3 YEARS IT IS ALL DONE.
NOW GET SOME FRIENDS TOGETHER ON WEEKENDS HERE AND THERE AND CUT THAT DOWN TO A YEAR AND HALF
AS COMPARED TO 40 YEARS IN THE PLAN YOU HAVE CURRENTLY ACCEPTED  THE REGULAR LIFE STYLE .... BUT HERE IS SOME DATA EXPERIENCE ABOUT MOVING DIRT ..... ABOUT DIGGING A 1/4 POND ....
 also have a Kubota B2710. I wouldn't attempt it unless you are moving very soft dirt. Even then it would take a long time.
Around here you could have that dug with a bulldozer for $1,000 to $1,500. If the pond is for fish everything I read says it should be a minimum of 8 feet deep, otherwise you could have oxygen problems for the fish, especially you have hot summers.
One recommendation though regardless of who does the work. Scrape that topsoil off and put it in a pile and use it or sell it later. Its like gold. I have more than acre of good topsoil covered up by yellow clay fill dirt because I failed to have the dirt guy save my topsoil. Now I find that its about $10 a yard.
When I had all my dirtwork done, including a 1.5 acre, 12-foot deep pond, I was quoted 90 cents per cubic yard of dirt moved. This is probably more expensive than average, but I wanted this particular guy to do my work and I'm not disappointed. The tank was dug in August and after all these rains in North Texas this winter it is filled to brim and is beautiful - it has inlets and hardly any dam at all, plus a well-designed spillway.
A friend of mine had a small pond similar to what you're talking about quoted at $800 by a guy who has a bulldozer. He thought that was too high!

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click this for more video on the pond bulding page , remember time you got $$ you do not and if in a year or so you have the $ 50per hr so figure 5 or 7 grand to hire some one for a week or two to dig well then great . until then you can DIY'it

EACH LINEAR FOOT OF BUILDING NEEDS ABOUT 21 CUBIC TOTAL MATERIAL , OF WHIHC 2 FOOT WILL BE PORTLAND CEMMENT AT A COST OF ABOUT $6 CFT BAGS GOODS PALLET PRICE , OR ABOUT $1800.00 PER HOME
NEW INFO AND PRICING NOV.09 YOU MAYBE ABLE TO GET THE POND DUG 100X100 FOR LIKE 2 GRAND AND 1 MORE TO HAVE THE DIRT MOVED TO HOMESITE PADS AND MOUNDED OUT SIDE OF THE 4 CORNERS AND BUYING A MACHINE FOR DIY FOR $3,00O MAYBE A WASTE OF TIME AND $$ , YOU NEED TO SHOP LOCAL PRICING

Of course work with your engeneer , but by putiing standard concrete colums at eery 8 foot with a regular concrete footer and tie beam comparable to what you have in normal CBS construstion ... 8 or 10 inch wide for the colums and tie beam and the footer for a stem wall is often 12 inch by 12 ... the rest is NON structural WALL material ...
now do some research about NATURAL CEMENT .... and ASH ,,, you may have local limestone or marl that you can burn and add the resuting ash also to your ADOBE ... and lower your portland mix , test studys will hae to be made locally .... pit burning your local limestone witht he loods and leaf form site clearing , most imporatnt is to store the ash mix water tight everyday ..to maintain the reactive potential .  
A STUPID IL' VIDEO BUT ALL THE SAME IT JUST SHOWS YOU WHAT IS POSSIBLE , WITH A $200 MIXER

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BOTTOM 2 FEET IS 4 FOOT WIDE , THE NEXT 2 FOOT OF HIEGHT IS 3 FOOT WIDE , THE FOLLOWING 4 FOOT OF HIEGHT IS 2 FOOT WIDE , DIRECT POUR THE FIRST 2 FORMS FROM MIXER INSIDE THE HOUSE , YOU MAY NEED TO RAISE MIXER FOR THE SECOND COURSE .
MOVE MIXER OUTSIDE POUR SLURRY INTO 3  OR 4 BUCKETS ,  LIFT BUCKEST ON THE THE 3 FOOT EDGE TO BE LIFTED AND AND TURNED UP SIDE DOWN IN FORMS TO EMPTY .  
THE VIDEO BELOW SHOWS A SIMILIAR IDEA USING MECHANICAL COMPACTION FOR FAST WALL COMPLETION , WET SETTLING COMPACTION WILL TAKE A MONTH TO CURE. MIXING THE CEMMENT IN THE EARTH PROVIDES SIMILIAR WEATHERING IF A FINAL PROTECTIVE COATING IS ADDED ( paint )

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a water system will transfer heat better , but an simple air system will have less chance of problems long term

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ok this video is for exposure just to open your mind , these uys are doing something a bit different , for 1 they do not add chopped straw , the mix procedures will vary with available materials , you may want to dry mix straw and all then add the water , direct poured into wall form can allow for a wetter/watery slurry

Adobe Brick Making 101 from Pia Alliende on Vimeo.

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Hello kiddo

 

I betcha you are wondering why I am sending you 10 bucks and some concrete ( I am sure by the time it arrives to you it will just be sand and shells ) and an advertisement from GAF …..well get there in a minute

 

First what does the words PAN , Brod , and Pita have in common , they all are made by using a Recipe , they are words of different languages desciribing a similar family of item …. BREAD .

Adobe is a meso- American words for EARTH BRICK ,,,, cement and concrete are also just other recipes for earth bricks ….. Portland cememt used to make current day UNIFORM BUILDING CODE concrete are nothing more thand burnt limestone and additives cooked in a certain method or recipe to make the equal of americn white bread , where the world has white bread , French bread , pita bread , European Brods like pumpernickel and ryes and crisp breads , so the world for 1000’s of years has had recipes for making cemented earth birck and solid poured walls ,,,,

 

Portland is a 100 year old patented American recipe ,  the concrete enclosed is from and ezosed area of may slab a home built in the late 40’s before code or Portland was commonly available in these parts cement and concrete were local ARTISAN CAFTS …. Best gues my slab was made of cement of crushed coqui rock , black fossil shell , hard wood coal cinder ash and a salting of mineral clays , being exposed like this area has been for the lasr 70 years to roof water run off has weaken in greatly . that is why the sample crumbs so easy .. left un protected for 70 years this local ADOBE WILL eventually become dirt again .

 

In rainy old England the local adobe was called COB , used be fore roman times there are still 1000’s of cob home being lived in that are near a 1000 years old ,,,, the bricks made by the jews for pharoh still stand today on the banks of the nile river , sand clay and starw … 5000 years old ,,,

 

Solid poured home made artisan concrete made the roman structures still standing in the citys of Europe today 2000 years later .

 

10 bucks go by a bad of portand  for 8  buck and a bag of white pea rock for 2 and play scrape the top soil off and area of ground till you get to something more like sand then dig a few more inches down …. Surface sand has been eroded rounded and will not bite well when making concrete you need PIT  sand . 3 parts rock 2 parts sand 1 part cement is what the bag says is needed for UBC regs to make concrete . cut the bottom out of a 5 gal bucket put it up side down as a mold and mix the bread dough the cement in an other bucket and pour it in , let it set a week lift off bucket ….and you could make the roman collusiem over time  ,,,,,,

 

A running foot of wall 11 foot high  , the base mold being 4 foot high 2 foot wide toped by additional wal 18 inches this ( ½ a meter the min. needed to tap the dymncs of HTM’S  high thermal mass construction concepts , concepts dating back again 1000’s of years  even bermed housing and green roofs were used by vikings)  is about 18 cubic feet of material ..to have a ready mix truck come at 90 a cubic yard 27 cubic feet , or 3 cf rock 2 cf sand 1 cf Portland  , which equals 6 cf , that means 3  , 8 buck bags per running foot of wall …..

A trick load of pea rock will be about 200 bucks and brings you about 18 cubic yards of concrete rocks . about enough to do 50 running foot of wall

 

….. now young man my friend ….. tommy ….. look around you at the vidence trails you have seen, the good the bad the ugly , the regular working class the the lucky few who get Free $$$ , the normal life for you will be school for 4 years trade tech or college , 1 year of job search and unpaid or low paid internship , so at age 23 you get to have and 1 bedroon 700 squyare foot apt , paid down your student loans and build credit worthyness and save for a down payment …… so by the time you 27 or 28 , you can now shop for a home after jumping thru everyones hoops by age 29 or 30 you close on the house and settle down to 30 years of payments , so by the time you are 60 you maybe …MAYBE lucky to be free

 

Or build now live in a 700 square foot home now with no payments , and in a few years put on addition after addition till you fucking build your ass a castle if you want . debt free. NOW not when you are 60 …….

 

10 dollars a day ….. 70 a week a couple of young people would have 1400 bucks every  couple of months ….. to build 50 running feet of that 700  square feet ,,,, to pour the finish floor slab , to buy 50 roofs joists at 10 bucks each ..to put on SHINGLES made by GAF bought at home depot or …something else made by GAF ….

 

Talk to you later dude   

ohh yeah hint on the high wall somewhere mid way designin a 4 foot section of loose laid CBS block as the top link natural home builder so you can put an addition on real easy by just removing those CBS and solid pouring from the 2 foot ledge up to joist high

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