I've been building with earth and concrete lately. I like the process. I enjoy the carpentry; making a thing that is not going to be the thing. Negative spatial thinking.

#RammedEarth #GRFC

Last pieces of form removed today and I have a wall. Anything that looks like an error is, by definition, a feature, it is rammed earth. Four afternoons of mixing and ramming, every afternoon pushing out until after dark, perhaps I should mix a smaller brew instead of my standard 100l mix and I could have avoided that. Half a day for wages, and half a day for my projects.

Today I'm building box work so as to pour a concrete capping sill, in situ.

#RammedEarth

I need to build a shed for the Nesher electric loader/excavator I’ve acquired. Intrigued about doing so using #RammedEarth walls. I have lots of heavy clay soils, and the loader’s bucket to help with moving it. No experience with building wall forms. Maybe those will be extra challenging as I’m considering a round shed if I go for rammed earth. About 250 square feet.

Anyone have thoughts? Right up the #Solarpunk alley.

By far the tallest wall I have attempted to build by hand. The shorter days mean that I have been finishing up in the dark the last couple of nights.

#RammedEarth