We Should Have FIXED THESE Sooner

[Music] happy New Year and good morning from the tiny shiny Homestead today we're going to be working on the house but before we can work on the house I have so much laundry to do and our little tiny 500 galon water tank just isn't keeping up with our demands so I got to go get some water [Music] [Music] just got home and look is look what is going on I don't even hold on on his own accord is washing our car teenagers are awesome [Applause] all right we're just going to let gravity do its thing filling up this tank I got to get back to [Music] laundry okay we are finally ready to start for the day it's a new year yeah uh a lot of you you have asked as you're building Earth bags how do you do it when you get up tall scaffolding we have already taken the old plywood off the scaffolding because it was like if you stepped on it you'd probably fall through it yeah we've used this for how many projects now I mean it's years almost 5 years old years and years yeah so anyway we have put new plywood on we just need to attach it with the bolts and drill new holes and then we can get started yeah then we're going to use it well well we got to do some other stuff first but we'll get to that in a minute okay can you do the drilling sure many of you ask us in the comments Jonathan and Ashley where can I get these hyper Adobe Earth bag rolls well it just so happens that if you live in southeast Arizona or New Mexico or California within driving distance we actually have a whole bunch of them here sometimes we do what we call a bulk order from our friends at vul we get a whole pallet delivered of a bunch of different sizes and then that way if you can come pick it up you can save a good good chunk every roll because you're not paying for like UPS or FedEx to ship it to you these are by far the highest quality uh hyperdub Earth bags that we have used they're UV treated they're woven extra tight they're not going to break down in the sun they're not going to flake off and cause microplastics as long as you build with them and then get them covered within a reasonable amount of time we're talking like years before any sort of degradation would start to happen and you know they're super cheap per linear foot you can build a lot of building with just a couple of rolls of these Earth bags so we have the 16inch which is what we use there's 18 inch if you're building something even bigger I mean I don't know what else you would build because ours is pretty big and there's a 12-in in case you wanted to do something smaller like maybe a shower like a garden wall or something like that we have a bunch in stock you can go to this link tiny shiny home.com hyper Adobe you can order it and then you get to text this and decideed time to come pick it up we think you should totally grab some if you have any projects coming up because this is prime Earth bagging time this time of year in the desert so it turns out somebody bought the wrong size bolts I won't say who it was but we are going to switch gears and just make cleats so that we can lay some bags we will deal with scaffolding tomorrow [Music] this is our weird cleat because these two doors are so close together uh it's just it's got 2x4s on each side and then we screw it in and hold it all the other ones are just on the edges but this is a special one also this layer of cleats is important because it's basically the middle of this door which means we already have low cleats middle cleats once we do that there's a good chance we can actually take these out because with this many layers of bags and with it screwed into the cleat and the cleat held down with the weight of the bags it shouldn't ever once we get up to this point and we hold the middle of it I don't think it's ever going to start moving this way again even as we build up the wall so it's going to make walking around here much better [Music] [Music] way to start the New Year it's a good day bag 12 now we are very close to running out of soil to do the bags yeah so we're going to start in the hallway cuz they're all very small bags we're getting a load tomorrow though so yeah we'll just we'll just do what we can use what we got yeah the fun part when you're getting to the end of a big load of dirt is that uh it's all very compacted it's been rained on it's been Steed on it's usually had other dirt on top of it at this point because we have so many loads brought in so just going to go pickaxe some of this and loosen it up so that when we start to lay it we can actually move quickly and not spend all of our time loosening the soil and instead of pickaxing pickaxing picking axe pickaxing anyway instead of doing that it would be really cool if one day we had a tractor to just you know take two seconds and move the dirt wouldn't that be nice one day okay hold on wait a minute you just said one day and when we wanted an automatic gate opener for about F four years you kept telling me one day so about four more years as a Tracker I have no no idea I mean it's in my 10year plan and we've already been here almost five years yeah I mean I have no timeline to share with you I'm sorry I wish I did I'm going to claim it within 4 years we will have a tractor okay I like the way you think okay [Music] [Music] all right bud [Music] close [Music] enough so one of my favorite sounds on Earth bagging is the sound when the water hits the dry bag kind of like pops and crinkles just listen to this now just wait okay ready back [Music] n [Music] come come yeah oh there hi we're busy you know we're just so busy doesn't like it when I talk loud last bag of day oh we're singing you want to do that again without singing no it's the last bag of the day all right the cat liked it when he said see he liked it better let's see no not going to do it [Music] he turns out size does matter with these nuts and bolts so I am now ready to put these bolts in the hole and tighten them and get this scaffolding ready to be used did you get the right size this time um you got the right size this time the right size yeah this is the perfect size babe okay inch and a quarter [Music] [Music] last step is just to make a little handle so we're just drawing two two big holes and then we're going to connect them with the jigsaw [Music] easy these days are rning slow sun sets and Shores far from home [Music] head lights are shining on the sea no place on Earth rather be I could try to just [Music] follow so this is the perfect time to finally get these things ready to go again because we laid part of course 12 yesterday that was a little tricky getting up there getting up and down especially my job for tamping when you have to get up and down so many times like check the sides I was definitely feeling it going up and down it's good for you yeah it's getting to the point where I I I don't stretch much further than that when you step down so this will be good it's adjustable and for those of you who are new around here it'll be good for you to see exactly how we lay bags when it starts getting above our head cuz we're getting really close it's very exciting oh also we are just learning too we've been here 4 and a half years and we're just learning that taking care and prepping things like when you get scaffolding and it's raw wood yeah go ahead and paint it or stain it or something so it actually lasts I know I mean to be fair we got a lot of mileage yeah out of this cheap scaffolding it's just nice like when we think about it like if we can just do that little extra to protect things you know yeah it doesn't make a big difference yeah and also when we get done Plastering these in particular are like super gunked up with dirt and so something I want to do even before we take them over all the wheel casings and locks are all like gunked up with Cobb um it would be good to get different tires so they don't roll very well yeah I mean I thought about getting some like bigger more like off-road tires but then you can't lock them so it's like I bet you can find some maybe maybe we'll have to look okay um but yeah I mean if we had our concrete floor these would be perfect Lon is perfect take care of your stuff and your stuff will take care of you do you like that that's Ashley's deep thought for the day [Music] oh hi hi guys guess what we want to talk about our upcoming spring Workshop the double Dum canab collab how's that for a rhyme I'm very excited about this not only are we going to be in Canan bah but also the Mojave Center M and Hayden from curvet texure and milie from curvit texure guys and well hold on let's back up like what are we doing man we're building a double Dome with um a connecting hallway and we are going to do a hyper Adobe bench fire pit area yeah so you've got Hayden and Millie from carit tecture teaching one doome uh and then Ian and nicholet from the Hobby Center teaching another Dome and then we're doing the hyper W Ben fire pit thingy in the middle guys this is a twow we project we will be building the domes and the fire pit and bench area in one week that's just the first week yep and then we're going to do plasters the secondly yeah it's going to be a big party guys do you want to come hang out with us in canab this is probably going to be the biggest earthbag party of the Year I hope so I feel like it is I'm very excited about it we have about 25 spots per week that are available I don't know how many tickets have been sold already but we're expecting it to fill up pretty soon so yeah cuz you can sign up for both weeks or just each individual week um so I don't I don't even know Mojave Center is running all signups and so I don't know how many people have signed up yet could tell you but guys guess what canab Utah is beautiful it is so close to so many national parks but even just the town of canab there's so much to do and see yeah when we travel full-time we hung out in canab for a couple of weeks and we really really liked it so I'm excited to go back so join us coming up in April and May I think it's what are the dates April 26th through May 10th 10th yep yes guys two we dome Extravaganza with the Mojave Center and curv texture and US tiny shiny home oh and we should mention that it's going to be at our friend Eric's property you remember Eric he came and helped us smash bags Andy grapes and he uh is doing this on his property while he's also building his parents an adobe house adobe brick house cool is that he's building a house for his parents made out of adobe guys that is a special kind of kid there I'm very excited to be working with Eric and Millie and kden and Nicola and Ian come visit canab Utah and hang out with us for 2 weeks here's the link you should go sign up and register and we will see you then [Music] [Music] [Music] so here's the strategy we'll use this one in the kitchen living room area we can take it down the hallway get all the way down into our bedroom area we put the second one in the kids bedroom Section because that one is is completely blocked off from everything else so keep that one over there and then we might get a third one that we can keep sort of in the courtyard so we can be cuz it's really helpful if you have one of these on both sides so you can jump up and down on either side when you're working and by having the third one we won't have to be constantly like taking it apart and trying to get it through the doorways to the other side of the wall all the time which we had to do the solar shed because it was so tiny and it was really annoying we in the Moonlight it's something sweet let it wash over all of me with you are fall my conf forever close to the unknown there's no doubts and no regret happy before we get another day to do it all again oh going open all the curtain wide oh not going to miss a thing oh nothing's promised to you in this life but it's never for us to te to live well before we pray [Music]