ecoVillages Journal #29! Pounding Tyres in the heat... Setting up for volunteers

in ecoTrain4 years ago

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WoW! From one extreme to the other, thats how this past week has been! Its fair to say that I have been very sedentary for the past three months.. For most of it i have been sitting behind a computer in various very en ergonomic situations.. Working, planning, and getting ready to spring into action. My focus of late has been preparing the ground supports for a Yurt i am setting up on our ecoVillages HQ land. MY main task right now is to prepare the land for volunteers to be able to stay, and to start preparing for workshops and an earthship build! This all begins will the yurt, and soon after I hope we get water from a well we are soon to dig. Since our recent financial injection of around $37,000 we have enough now to buy the main materials we need in order to build to get a roof on the spiral earthship.

The flow is really happening now, and i am working as hard as i can physically pounding tyres and making a wooden frame to support. It feels SO good to be workings so hard! The sun here is SO harsh, but the air is very dry. I've not felt heat like this before.. were at about 37 degrees Celcius right now, and going up! I have around 15 more tyres to pound, and then i can start making the wooden floor for the Yurt. I haven't pounded tyres alone before, its normally done in teams of two.. so ive been finding news ways to make it easier and faster, and I have found a great method that really works and gets a tyre very well compacted in about 25 minutes.. with minimal effort until the very end. I will be making a movie of it soon as tyre pounding is something that most people thing is constant hard graft, but in fact its only the last bit that is the hard work.

So I will be sharing some more photos and updates soon. We hope to dig for our well soon, perhaps next week.. If we hit water I will be so very happy.. if we are really lucky we may also find water to make a small pool area.. just what you need when its 45 Celcius in August!

To all of you who are hoping to volunteer or be a part of a first build.. standby! I have some way to go yet until we are ready to start,.. but there may well be some positions open for a few people to help get us ready for the workshops when they happen. Who knows how long but let's say later this year i really hope to have some people with me on the land as we work together toward the first spiral showhome Earthship HQ for ecoVilllages.

 

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Awesome, must be nice to actually get building. Do you think you'll be able to do anything once it gets to August? I've heard the heat is so punishing that all you can do for much of the day is find shade and laze around in it!

Count me in for any volunteering for sure!

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very nice!
I'm lucky to have my @rot-trip VW T4 self-converted camper. So if the build gets to a point where you could use a hand, I'd be happy to drive over to Portugal, park the bus somewhere on the land and help for a few days or weeks without needing a lot of infrastucture... Actually can't wait to see and feel how it is there in Penamacor.

I am envisioning travel to Europe to meet both you and @samstonehill and hopefully be able to volunteer in some way. We are working on a community project in Mexico and it would be great to have some first hand Earthship building experience!

 4 years ago  

HAPPY TO HEAR! i hope sam comes here also.. i think when we start building he may come to film it.. lets see!

There is an Earthship or two near you.. maybe you can go to visit it and talk to them.. i wonder if you know about it? Else.. YES when we start you can join us if you can get here and REALly get some hands on experience and training..

best of luck to you!

Here's to a future in which we have all achieved our goals!

Current goals are very food orientated. But learning so much...

Dried apricots are amazing :)

And I can still remember how to make wraps!

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