Our FIRST DOOR LINTELS: Hyperadobe Roundhouse Milestone

All right, let's cut the wood. It sounds really though. I wasn't sure it would. How many jobs do we need? This one's extra heavy. It's a two shower kind of day. The Hyper Adobe Roundhouse is our most ambitious project yet. Taking everything we've learned from 5 years of experimenting with natural building and off-grid systems. We've designed an incredibly unique earthback structure that will serve as our family home in the centerpiece of our homestead. It's been a long road to get here. Starting with the foundation, we leveled and compacted our base, dug out the trenches for the walls, put the plumbing in, wrapped and protected our lower layers, set over 30 door and window forms, locking them all in place with over 400 tons of material. We just recently reached a huge milestone, course 20 and the tops of our door and window forms. This means we're ready to install an insane amount of lentils or headers over all of our openings. [Music] enough. [Applause] [Music] Good morning. We are back out at the workshop area. Now, one day this will have a roof over it, but today is not that day. The goal this morning is to get everything cut and then burn it this evening after the sun is further down and not so hot. I have a list of all the sizes I need. So, we should be able to get this done fairly quickly. We'll set up a stop, do it as efficiently as possible. We have our neighbor here who is moving all of our AB mix back into a bigger pile so it's easier for us to work on cuz right now everything's so spread out. I really hate relying on people to come help us. It's so frustrating. But thanksful for good neighbors who can help us out when we need it. So, all right, let's cut the wood. [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] We were just talking about how nice it is to have this set up because if we had to mark all of these, measure, mark, draw a line, line it up every single time, You're taking forever. I mean, it's already taking forever, but this is so nice. Cuts through 4x6. I wasn't sure it would. It's really nice. I wasn't sure it would. Okay. 57. How many do we have? 5 10 15 20 25 29. We don't have 57. Yep. Still got a lot to go. Okay. Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] But we did it. All of the wood is cut except the five lentils that are 61 in because we have all that wood that needs to be taken back and replaced. So, we'll do that later. I'm ready for shower number one of the day. And we're going to go in and chill out until it's much, much cooler today. [Music] Well, good afternoon from the barn. Uh, as a mom, you always hope that your kids will grow up healthy and happy, obviously, but I also wanted them to have like a really kind and loving heart. and Adeline goes above and beyond. So, uh, she's taking on another project. So, let's go in here and see what's going on. [Applause] [Music] So, someone in town had a cat that had kittens, but the mom ran off after a few days or got her something. She's not around. So, they had these five kittens, all orange, and they couldn't care for them. So Adelai has volunteered and now is bottlefeeding five kittens every 2 to 3 hours and uh so it's like another job. How many jobs do we need? But they're so cute and she's taking really good care of them. So yeah, I guess we have five extra kittens now. [Music] Since Adelaide is acting as these kittens mother right now, not only is she bottlefeeding them every 2 to 3 hours, she's also having to stimulate them to urinate and poop. The mother kitten would be licking them to do this. So Adelaide's taking a wet cotton swab and rubbing them like their mother would have licked them. Adelaide's done so much research on how to take care of these little guys and she's doing such a great job. [Music] [Applause] [Music] I went to the store and exchanged the crappy wood for eight new boards. It's all I need. I got to make eight cuts, 16 cuts. And Ben, we can burn things if we want. I don't know. I think Jonathan has like already got a shower and he doesn't want to burn things. I've already got a shower and I still want to burn things. It's a two shower kind of day. So, I think that's fine. Let's get the wood and then we can cut things and then decide what we're going to do. Sweet air. Something like I'm breathing in moonlight me. The people in the sky are up all night. Yeah, I need this slow dance with the gravity. [Music] I clips with your hands all over me. Okay, we finally did it. All of the lentils are cut and ready to be burned. So, even though it's late, I think I'm going to get a head start. Just get some of the boards done. I know this is going to take like a lot of time, but it's cooling down. This is like the time to do it. It's not windy. It's chill. So, I think Yeah, let's burn some stuff. Ooh, I swear you got me way up there. A cosmic affair. Ooh, I swear looking at you there. It's a cosmic affair. Heart beats like the planets are keeping temple. Hold on to me. I think I might die if you let go. [Music] The dogs are going to be so excited. It is Bark Day and we just wanted to say thank you to BarkBox for sponsoring today's video. A monthly subscription box for your dogs that bring you highquality treats, toys, and experiences. Inside your box, you'll get two toys and two bags of treats and one chew. You can even customize your dog's box according to their needs. Maybe they have allergies or they're a super chewer. There's a box for that. And one thing I really love about all of their stuff is their treats are all free of soy, corn, and wheat. Are you ready for your bark box? Come on. Do you want a toy? The toys are designed in-house and each month there's a new theme. The designers nail it every month and it's so fun to see what they come up with. [Music] You want this? You want this? Oh my goodness. Get it. Come on. You want it? [Music] Right now, BarkBox is offering an exclusive deal where you'll get an extra toy in your box every month for one year. So, that's three toys instead of two every single month for one year. So, if you just go to the link in the description below to take advantage of this deal, it doesn't last forever and your dogs will thank you. Now, let's get back to those lentils. All right, we're officially moving into lentil production. So, we are working on all of the interior doors. These are a little bit shorter than the exterior doors. Is it 61 in? 60 in? I don't remember. 60. We'll call it 60. Uh, we've already done the two buys. Now we got to do 15 four buys. We have our water out just in case. We're going to burn everything, scrape everything, and then we're going to work on gluing and screwing stuff together. The glue has to dry. Then we can come back the next day and linseed oil those. And then we can start on the next section. So anyway, here we go. [Music] My lips hot like June. Cutting the wire. Shutting the lights off in this room. Don't you feel it too? Heartbeat go like boom boom boom when I'm with you. One touch electric, two flying sparks. Three seconds from seeing stars. [Music] I like the way you like to move. Ooh. Cings up where you make them move. Blue like a summertime sky. Cool like a lover on ice. One thing I do want to note is it is really important how much you burn this wood. We are not doing this for it to look pretty. We're doing it functionally. So, this is what it should look like. It should be crinkly and like toasty like a really burnt marshmallow. Then when you're done scraping it, all that comes off. It gets rubbed in the pores of the wood. And then once that oil's on there, it is really sealed up. It flash it like that. Do it like that. It like that. Making it trash. Bring it right back. Do it like that. Move it like that. Make it like that. [Music] Well, we're back outside. It's still really hot. We It's Yep. 98 degrees. We waited till the afternoon because it was just too hot. We're going to try to build the rest of these 60inch uh lentils in the shade here. Hoping we can build all of these and then get them oiled so that then that can dry and we can go put them up on the wall, get them out of our way and keep working on this pile. Also, somebody got a new tool. How excited are you about this? I'm very excited. Every time that we do cocking jobs, I say I'm going to get an automatic one. Well, we got an automatic one. It sounds really though. [Music] Once the wood is burned and scraped, assembling the lentils is actually pretty easy. First, we glue all the pieces together with heavyduty construction adhesive. Then we pipe clamp it all, flip it up vertically, and install a ton of 8 inch lag screws on both sides. If any glue squeezes out between the cracks, we just wipe it off. We let it dry, and then we come back later and put that oil on it. Then repeat over and over and over again. [Music] So what are you doing? What's this stuff? This is a mixture of boil blend seed oil with a little bit of mineral spirits. And we are drenching the wood, trying to get it in these cracks just so it um adds another layer of protection on this wood from bugs and weather. They're going to be out in the weather for a while. Doesn't it take all that stuff that we brushed and Well, brushing it kind of pushes all the ash into the p like the pores of the wood and then this seals it and then this Yeah, this creates like a It almost turns into like a polymer over top. Seals the wood up, protects it. I think it'll be fine for We're only going to have this exposed for what, couple months? I'd say 6 to 8 months probably. Yeah. Oh, wow. Realistically, yeah, we'll get it covered up as soon as we can. But really, we can't do anything till the roof's on. Yeah, but this will help. [Music] Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat. [Music] We've come to the conclusion The only way that these lentils are going to get done is if we get up so early. So, we got that whole stack that needs to be done. I know it's not going to get done today, but if we could get a big portion of it done today, that'd be great. So, early morning, sun's almost up, so let's get going. [Music] So, we got the living room. Well, okay, these are the front door and back door. The two 4ft doors in our living room area. So, we are going to go ahead and glue those and screw them. We'll let them dry before we oil them. But, if we could get this last pile done, those are the living room window lentils and the courtyard door. If we could get those done, that would be ideal. But, it's already getting warm, so we'll see how far we get. It's another day. I'm back on my feet, so I win again. Roses are so sweet. The scent is all around my head. I see the stars shining right through your eyes. No, I can't believe that you're finding mine. Girl, you're so perfect that you make me feel happy. And I feel that I am the luckiest guy in the world. on my way to. All right. So, those back there, we got to let the glue dry before we can oil them. But these have already been oiled. So, we're going to go ahead and take them up to the house and just set them on the wall, get them sort of out of our way cuz uh we need to do some water runs today. We need the bed of the truck open. Um also so that they just don't get in the way of our pile. Uh so, let's throw them up there. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] There's no clouds above me when I think about your eyes tonight. You're my comfort after every day. This one's extra heavy. Yeah. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] We are done for the morning. Back another day or later today. [Music] All right, we have one more door lentil to do. Technically, this is covering two doors in our room, but this is the last door to do. So, [Music] so last night we oiled the rest of the doors that we had built earlier in the day. I am going to try to start taking them over to the house and getting them set in place. If I can lift them. These are bigger than the ones that we lifted earlier. A little bit bigger. Maybe I can do it. might need Ashley's help, but I'm going to at least try to take him over there with the gorilla cart. We figure it out when it's our turn. You don't get the prize that you don't learn. You try to make sense when you return. I don't want to waste more time in life. It's just a flash in the pan when I'm doing the best that I can. And I will be until the end. Till the end. I don't want to leave behind the darkness. I will be afraid of life. Pay the price of the cold. I waste more time. Life is just a flashing [Music] heat. [Music] I don't want to waste more time. Life is just a flash when I'm doing the best that I can. And I will be until the end. Till the end. I don't want to leave the darkness. I won't be afraid. I pay the price of the cold. I waste your time. When life is just a flashing [Music]