Oct 7

This guy is at it again

If I was ever lost in the woods while looking for a Sasquatch, I would want this guy with me. I am always amazed by his videos.

20 Responses to “This guy is at it again”

    • Jeffrey H

      Wow, I’m going to have to try that meth cause I have to clean my room and cut the grass this weekend! Thanks for the idea Mark. I wonder what thus guy did the next day? Built the rest of the village? Oh, I hope he didn’t make a girlfriend out of that clay, that would be hard!

  1. FlagStaffer

    Sorry all, I won’t even address the possible time line for construction ( ha! yes I will,, days? weeks? a month or two? maybe many months spliced together? who knows? I don’t) but that could only have happened in single location with just the right clay soil and what did he glaze the tile exterior with so that in the first few heavy dew falls let alone rain it didn’t all turn to mush, that little wood fire kiln didn’t melt and form an exterior coat on the tiles so they are just dried mud. How much did those tiles weigh all mounted on a lightweight structure? And what exactly secures the tiles in place? Gravity? He’s basically a pottery dude making a play house…..don’t believe me, do your research and see if this was ever a viable method of constructing a shelter when this country was being settled. Free Housing! Mud, Fire and Sticks! If it was this method would have been used. Can anyone find a single historical example?

  2. michael n

    Well, I could be mistaken but it looks like his hair was longer AF the end than when he started?? To answer a question or two he puts tabs on the roof tiles so they would hook onto the cross sticks he put up. But when you have done construction as much as I have you can move pretty quickly. He obviously has done this time and again or your right weather might have gotten the better of it. I really think a change of shorts might have been called for. Although the theatrics would have been lost. If he worked constantly I would doubt it took longer than 2weeks at most. That’s just my opinion and I could be very wrong.
    Anyone notice no windows for a squatch to peek into and a door small enough to maybe….just maybe keep a booger out of?
    Awesome job!!!!

  3. FlagStaffer

    Jordan , lol!, thanx for commenting! I have actually engaged in the practice (with lots of help from a group of like minded individuals) of forming and firing adobe bricks that will repel rain and provide a lasting shelter based on historical methods. There is a reason that our predecessors built large kilns and harvested mass quantities of hard wood and manufactured charcoal to fire the kilns and used thick rectangular bricks of adobe stacked brick on brick and mortared. If thin mud tiles hanging on a flexible wood framework would have sufficed for anything other than short term shelter then no one would have bothered with the traditional and much more labor intensive practice.

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