Nice to see how your dog is so happy now, totally different dog than when you first got her, she is now a very happy dog with a great home, and become a loved member of the family.
If I hadn't seen it ,I wouldn't have believed the tremendous amount of work that you Jess and Jim have accomplished ,with Crew cheering it on every step of the way.HEALING TO CREW.
Two COBBERS… Cobber is an old Australian word for Mate.. buddy.. friend.. pal..Don’t hear it too often now… you two are definitely good Cobbers in every sense of the word…👍🇦🇺🦘😁 Can’t wait to see the next stage of this root cellar..❤️
I encourage my wife to become a neighbor in a already started earthship id not have a idea of what to expect if I hadn’t been following you for four years I think from way back in the beginning anyhow
You two are so sweet together! I'm so happy that progress is happening for you and that you have some options for the winter. Hope Crew gets well soon.
Love watching you two, my husband and I have been married 55+yrs.and I have to say that the laughter and fun between you two reminds me of you guys.. Keep it up.
It’s ok when break eye contact with camera for being natural while listening and talking to each other . Love your spirits with living concern for family and homestead as well as our earth. Sharing your talent is a gift to us. Thanks. Best healing light to ‘puppy’
My 31 gal. Galvanized Trash Can Smoke is doing EXCELLENT. 👍👍 I Greased all the insides, and burn it out, and season it. Today i did a smoke grill chicken and squirrels on it YUM ! It don't take much wood nor charcoal to smoke or cooking things on it either. I dearly love it
Greetings from the Great Sioux Nation in South Dakota! Im retired and live on my small reservation here in S.D. along the Big Sioux River. I worked during the school year off in the summers, my dad had a building const. and every May he would say " could use your help kid" geesh dad i went to college so I wouldnt have to do that work.... four back surgeries later ( some from const but a Army injury). I just love your videos young people! I love your attitudes too! Thats what it takes! Do I hear an Okie accent ya'all? I was stationed there once, loved it. Keep up the good work guys! I just found your channel but I'l be watching you kids. Thank you for allowing us old basses to enjoy this, esp us old building people love to see your organic approach to construction, your on the right track Id say! Ohan Mitakuyaoyasin ( we are all related)
Nice job Popeye, 👍👍👍and the L8 bloomers. Good to hear about Crew's upcoming treatment 🫂 hope the Doggy Dr doesn't sting your bankaccount too savagely. Looking good team 👌 👍🏻 👏 😎
I just found this channel a few days ago I guess, and I’m loving it. You are such a hard, hard worker. I wish the very best for you and your lady and of course your dog !!
Amazing progress, your dedication and hard work is really paying off! Through it all you're smiling and joking and hopefully getting some rest now that the floor is done. It was good to see Crew out and about. I'm sending prayers for his surgery to go well and your nerves to stay calm during the wait. He's such a beautiful dog, I know it must have a difficult decision for you both to make and talk to us about.
Jess you are a very different person since the teeth surgery. You kind of like really have to make a ton of progress in your living in the dome and start to get your veggie plots built to fill that roor seller... Keep up the good work
I am so glad to see yall happy and smiling. I have been praying for yall . Yall are doing a very good job , on the root seller , and everything else that yall are working on and doing . I love yall's animals they are so cute . Be blessed and safe. Miss . Linda . ❤🙏🏽❤
I am a little curious about trying to insulate the floor of the root cellar? Seems you would want as much coolness as possible- Think the mixture you are making would be a nice insulation filler for the rafters. Staple some burlap to the underside of the rafters possibly a few sticks nailed across and lightly pack the straw cob in. possibly do long screws through the side of the rafters to help lock the cobb in. let dry and then add multiple layers on the top tell you get about six inches above the rafters. imped some more branches spanning across the rafters as you build it up- each new layer of cobb have less hay in it. First thought was build it like a beaver. Tarp over it allowing airspace for it to dry- run a fan inside pulling the very dry desert winter air through to help dry - Then a thin layer of that cement you do. Build the stone gabions around the side and do temporary roof/ tent over the top. with a little chimney opening at the peak- so during the summer- air would be sucked through the wide gaps between the rocks up to the peak of the tent and hot air would flow out the top. having a gap between the earth roof and the outer roof would also keep solar gain down. Always amazes me how something like just a 1 inch gap will cut down on heat transfer with ovens and appliances.
I'm impressed. Jessica is so sweet. So happy to see Crew. I hope the surgery goes smoothly. Jim you need to take some time to go slower for a bit. Just to give you body a break .
Make a wheelbarrow full of cob and drop them in from above....it's cool enough to not dry out so after a few dumps go in and level.... a bit late and me being a back seat driver. Either way nice work. Did Crew get bit by spider?
It looking great Jim you sure are doing well on your roots, solder flooring we are so happy to see you both doing well out there brother Jim and sister Jess
Love your channel! Do you guys have any sketches of your plan to connect the root cellar with the main building? If you did it in a prior video, we missed it. Would love to share your vision in more detail!
👀Looking good ya'll 👍👍 👉👉 I knew it 🙄 WOOPS there goes your cob again! Woops there goes your cob again! Woops there goes your cob again Jim 🤪🤣 Jess is stealing it, putting on the dome 🤣🤣
Exciting to see all your progress! Probably too late now, but it would have been good to use your tamper on the floor once it was firm enough when you could walk on it to pack it and get any voids/air out.
Cellar floor is done and drying out. About 4" of a base layer of straw. Plus 4 to 6 in of cobb. As a combined moisture barrier. Roof next? What was Jess cobbing? Hoping Cru's surgery goes well.
So why are you not using the cement mixer to make the floor cob? Also dont get why you are putting cob on top of straw ...I could see putting damp earth down there and tamping it but not cob . once it drys as soon as you walk on it , it will crack
Great job! I am curious about 1 thing, why take down the door frame when you have to put up a door eventually? Won't you need that to anchor the door to? Just asking.
Get you a piece of plywood or two that you can stand on and use your tamper in the packet down and get it leveled out as you walk around on the plywood and moving the pieces of plywood wanted to turn and going back-and-forth all of them that will pack it down tiger and make it more compact where it won’t crack a split on the
Fantastic progress, really enjoyed your video and seeing you guys doing great stuff. Love, love that floor! I really get the engineering of it with that straw: straw has a hollow core which is brilliant for both insulation and a cozy floor with great bounce!
Flooring is good but if it was me I would have thought ROOF to protect everything inside. Yes, more light but what if it rains (I know not likely where you are and this time of year) heck you might even get snow, LOL.
It will never be finished, he will start another project and let this one deteriorate like last time, just like the dome in the background. So much time and energy wasted.
Now, that’s somewhat unfair, they have finished several major projects, including the huge cistern, the solar mark 1 and mark 2 build, the water roof, and guttering around that, the chicken structure, the geodesic garden, and the whole first dome build. It was heart-breaking when the root-cellar flood took out so much of the wall, but, before that, the root-cellar mark 1 was pretty much all built and sealed up waiting for finishing. And the outside and inside of the house dome is coming along. They’ve almost got living spaces. Would I have prioritized things differently? Maybe. But they are on their own trajectory, making decisions with factors we never see. They are learning and sharing their chosen life with us, and we get to live vicariously through them. They listen and learn and test and build, and sometimes tear down and rebuild, with lessons learned as they go. Every step takes them a step closer to their dream-in-reality. What shape it will be? We never know, because today always shapes tomorrow, no matter the plans of yesterday. I believe, the original was to have two beehive domes, side by side, with a hallway between them, but, over time that shifted. They don’t even know what the end-shape might be at this point, but they are working toward a dream. When will the get there? I’ve owned my (already built) house for decades, and I’m still working off my project list. Will they ever be “done”? I don’t know, but, probably not while they still have strength in their arms and dreams in their heads. Will it reach the point where they are living, full-time in the structures they built with their own hands? Probably, and not in too many years. Is it slower than the instant-gratification generation who wants to be entertained would get to? Yes. For those, go watch those “dug a secret underground home with a pool, by hand, in the jungle, with just a stick and some stones” entertainment stories, and then see how much actual work anything along those lines would be. I expect that the Sombrero portion of the dome will be done before high summer, possibly sooner, but … *shrug* everything moves at its own pace. Maybe the interior of the dome will be done sooner, and we can see them moving into that living space, maybe, as they said, they will stage into the root cellar before that. Only time will tell. I know I’m looking forward to whatever muraling or decoration the interior walls of their house will have, and how it is lit both by the bottle windows, and by whatever other lighting solutions they come up with. But first the walls have to be completed, and that, in and of itself might be more than a years-long project. Time and space for the creativity to flow. That is what they share with us.
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The love he has for his wife is heartwarming.
Very.
Prayers for Crew.🙏🙏❤️
Big hugs for Crew
It is so good to see Jess talkative and smiley and happy. She's beautiful! Floor in the Root Cellar looks awesome too! I'm a fan in Oregon. ❤
Giving prayers to Crew
Thank you for my journey with you today…..hope your dog really get well soon
Nice to see how your dog is so happy now, totally different dog than when you first got her, she is now a very happy dog with a great home, and become a loved member of the family.
If I hadn't seen it ,I wouldn't have believed the tremendous amount of work that you Jess and Jim have accomplished ,with Crew cheering it on every step of the way.HEALING TO CREW.
Two COBBERS… Cobber is an old Australian word for Mate.. buddy.. friend.. pal..Don’t hear it too often now… you two are definitely good Cobbers in every sense of the word…👍🇦🇺🦘😁
Can’t wait to see the next stage of this root cellar..❤️
"Straw-heavy, unsifted dirt." Such rich, descriptive language I'm able to relate to in a very heartfelt way. Thank you.
A lot of work, Jim. You guys are doing so much and it really shows. Our prayers for Crew.
I'm praying for crew, and you guys just watching the progress is so awsome
people have been watching you two dig,mix,fill dirt bags for five years. of course we know whats next mix more dirt.
I encourage my wife to become a neighbor in a already started earthship id not have a idea of what to expect if I hadn’t been following you for four years I think from way back in the beginning anyhow
You two are so sweet together! I'm so happy that progress is happening for you and that you have some options for the winter. Hope Crew gets well soon.
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys, good work guys 👍😁💪👌👏👏👏.
Wishing Crew a speedy
You both can look an say we did this an be so proud of yourself 🥰🥰🥰
It looks to me like Jim can do just about anything he sets his mind to
Love watching you two, my husband and I have been married 55+yrs.and I have to say that the laughter and fun between you two reminds me of you guys.. Keep it up.
Love and prayers for Crew! I will think positive thoughts towards his operation. He is a strong boy!
Bless you all.
Glad to be updating on Crew. Good luck. Root sellar looks good. Hard work will pay off
It’s ok when break eye contact with camera for being natural while listening and talking to each other . Love your spirits with living concern for family and homestead as well as our earth. Sharing your talent is a gift to us. Thanks. Best healing light to ‘puppy’
I wish my wife was still healthy anuff too do something like this. I'm getting old but I think I could definitely do it. Such a cool looking place.
Great job, Mr. Swan. You work...like a man!💪 Healing vibes to Crew...❤
You two have said the word cob more than anyone else on the internet. Lol
💯😅
I hope Crew gets well soon!
Maybe consider a layer of sand over the cob floor. It won't retain moisture, will fill in the cracks and level things out.
Or maybe tamped it down a bit while it was damp.
It's funny how money don't mean much when someone you love is sick.
I also still have jalapenos growing in December can you believe it
Some of us are getting soooo tired from watching you ! LOL!
Wishing you good health for your wonderfu dog.
Boy, Jim you killed it on the floor looks great .Jess your garden with the late bloomers is beautiful.
Thank you!
My 31 gal. Galvanized Trash Can Smoke is doing EXCELLENT. 👍👍 I Greased all the insides, and burn it out, and season it. Today i did a smoke grill chicken and squirrels on it YUM ! It don't take much wood nor charcoal to smoke or cooking things on it either. I dearly love it
Squirrel is very good 👍.
Now is when to tamp it down and level the surface. Or, then was. A sweet couple showing us a strong relationship, pursuing self-sufficiency. 👍
It’s coming along Jim & Jess. Keep up the great work 🤙
Greetings from the Great Sioux Nation in South Dakota! Im retired and live on my small reservation here in S.D. along the Big Sioux River. I worked during the school year off in the summers, my dad had a building const. and every May he would say " could use your help kid" geesh dad i went to college so I wouldnt have to do that work.... four back surgeries later ( some from const but a Army injury). I just love your videos young people! I love your attitudes too! Thats what it takes! Do I hear an Okie accent ya'all? I was stationed there once, loved it. Keep up the good work guys! I just found your channel but I'l be watching you kids. Thank you for allowing us old basses to enjoy this, esp us old building people love to see your organic approach to construction, your on the right track Id say! Ohan Mitakuyaoyasin ( we are all related)
You guys are amazing!!!
We are waiting to see all it done soon that way
It looks really good, I'm eager to see what type of roof design you've chosen. Love your channel.
Big rains coming this winter guys (El Niño) get ready... models suggest the SW to get record rain falls this year... stay safe... love y'all!
Nice job Popeye, 👍👍👍and the L8 bloomers. Good to hear about Crew's upcoming treatment 🫂 hope the Doggy Dr doesn't sting your bankaccount too savagely. Looking good team 👌 👍🏻 👏 😎
I just found this channel a few days ago I guess, and I’m loving it. You are such a hard, hard worker. I wish the very best for you and your lady and of course your dog !!
I can see Christmas lights on the dome...make it look like a ufo for Santa!
Amazing progress, your dedication and hard work is really paying off! Through it all you're smiling and joking and hopefully getting some rest now that the floor is done. It was good to see Crew out and about. I'm sending prayers for his surgery to go well and your nerves to stay calm during the wait. He's such a beautiful dog, I know it must have a difficult decision for you both to make and talk to us about.
Jess you are a very different person since the teeth surgery. You kind of like really have to make a ton of progress in your living in the dome and start to get your veggie plots built to fill that roor seller... Keep up the good work
Good to see Crew up and going. Hopefully he's ok!
Hope Crew is better!😎 keeper up guys!
I am so glad to see yall happy and smiling. I have been praying for yall . Yall are doing a very good job , on the root seller , and everything else that yall are working on and doing . I love yall's animals they are so cute . Be blessed and safe. Miss . Linda . ❤🙏🏽❤
I am a little curious about trying to insulate the floor of the root cellar? Seems you would want as much coolness as possible- Think the mixture you are making would be a nice insulation filler for the rafters. Staple some burlap to the underside of the rafters possibly a few sticks nailed across and lightly pack the straw cob in. possibly do long screws through the side of the rafters to help lock the cobb in. let dry and then add multiple layers on the top tell you get about six inches above the rafters. imped some more branches spanning across the rafters as you build it up- each new layer of cobb have less hay in it. First thought was build it like a beaver. Tarp over it allowing airspace for it to dry- run a fan inside pulling the very dry desert winter air through to help dry - Then a thin layer of that cement you do. Build the stone gabions around the side and do temporary roof/ tent over the top. with a little chimney opening at the peak- so during the summer- air would be sucked through the wide gaps between the rocks up to the peak of the tent and hot air would flow out the top. having a gap between the earth roof and the outer roof would also keep solar gain down. Always amazes me how something like just a 1 inch gap will cut down on heat transfer with ovens and appliances.
I'm impressed. Jessica is so sweet. So happy to see Crew. I hope the surgery goes smoothly. Jim you need to take some time to go slower for a bit. Just to give you body a break .
Awesome guys it looks like your home is three fourths done. Exciting can't wait to see how you furnish/decorate your home.
Nice progress
nice work 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Job well done! I cant wait until you get the roof on before the snow come your way xxx
If you had a sheet of plastic to cover the floor you could pack it down good before it dries.
Busted out the Miss Swan joke huh? Nice.
Always look forward to your next video ❤❤❤🙏
I hope Crew gets better, soon.
Surely she will be impressed! LOL Well done yall.
Make a wheelbarrow full of cob and drop them in from above....it's cool enough to not dry out so after a few dumps go in and level.... a bit late and me being a back seat driver. Either way nice work. Did Crew get bit by spider?
It looking great Jim you sure are doing well on your roots, solder flooring we are so happy to see you both doing well out there brother Jim and sister Jess
Thanks OSRL, y'all are getting things done.
CONGRATULATIONS EXCELLENT work great results 🇺🇸👀👀
I'm so stoked for you guys.
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the support!
Prayers for Crew.🙏 You’re doing such a great job.
You should use a trowel with more water to level it out more. Don't know if that helps but just an idea
Love your channel! Do you guys have any sketches of your plan to connect the root cellar with the main building? If you did it in a prior video, we missed it. Would love to share your vision in more detail!
Your hard work is paying off it looks great.
You two are cute. Great job Jim!
A lot of hard work making a root cellar but once complete your laughing💚🙏🏻🇬🇧
Love you guys....😊
Wow! Zooming on the floor!
Poor Crew 😢
Sweat love Long live your love psalm 23
👀Looking good ya'll 👍👍 👉👉 I knew it 🙄 WOOPS there goes your cob again! Woops there goes your cob again! Woops there goes your cob again Jim 🤪🤣 Jess is stealing it, putting on the dome 🤣🤣
You two work soo[ hard bless your heart....looking good ..good job
Exciting to see all your progress! Probably too late now, but it would have been good to use your tamper on the floor once it was firm enough when you could walk on it to pack it and get any voids/air out.
Cellar floor is done and drying out. About 4" of a base layer of straw. Plus 4 to 6 in of cobb. As a combined moisture barrier. Roof next? What was Jess cobbing? Hoping Cru's surgery goes well.
lookin good man. stay warm over there.....got to 27 last night here by the airport
Y'all are doing a great job.❤😊
Love it so much keep it up as always 💘
So why are you not using the cement mixer to make the floor cob? Also dont get why you are putting cob on top of straw ...I could see putting damp earth down there and tamping it but not cob . once it drys as soon as you walk on it , it will crack
I was wondering this too. But I imagine there's an explanation, since these two have more practical experience with cob than most of us do.
Are you going to put some shelving around your route, seller for your potato beans and onion beans and utter bins for all your beautiful vegetables?
I still can't forget a comment from months ago accusing Jim of being lazy. What!? That was a nonsense statement for the record books!
Looks awesome. ❤🎉😊
'He lookah like a man' lol, yup...I am that old, too. Congrats on getting the floor down!
Thank you!! 😁
Setting those everlasting foundations !!!
“That’s my spinach!” 😂😂😂
Great job! I am curious about 1 thing, why take down the door frame when you have to put up a door eventually? Won't you need that to anchor the door to? Just asking.
It's not a door frame, that wood just keeps the bags in place as we build.
oh ok, was just curious. :)@@ourselfreliantlife
Excellent Work ❤
We love your tanacity and go to it-ness 101 points
Get you a piece of plywood or two that you can stand on and use your tamper in the packet down and get it leveled out as you walk around on the plywood and moving the pieces of plywood wanted to turn and going back-and-forth all of them that will pack it down tiger and make it more compact where it won’t crack a split on the
i dont understand the root cellar priority verses the dome priority to get in there a start living
Looking really good
Fantastic progress, really enjoyed your video and seeing you guys doing great stuff. Love, love that floor! I really get the engineering of it with that straw: straw has a hollow core which is brilliant for both insulation and a cozy floor with great bounce!
Flooring is good but if it was me I would have thought ROOF to protect everything inside. Yes, more light but what if it rains (I know not likely where you are and this time of year) heck you might even get snow, LOL.
It will never be finished, he will start another project and let this one deteriorate like last time, just like the dome in the background. So much time and energy wasted.
@@freddymax5256 why do u watch if it bothers u so much lol thats not very nice
Now, that’s somewhat unfair, they have finished several major projects, including the huge cistern, the solar mark 1 and mark 2 build, the water roof, and guttering around that, the chicken structure, the geodesic garden, and the whole first dome build. It was heart-breaking when the root-cellar flood took out so much of the wall, but, before that, the root-cellar mark 1 was pretty much all built and sealed up waiting for finishing. And the outside and inside of the house dome is coming along. They’ve almost got living spaces. Would I have prioritized things differently? Maybe. But they are on their own trajectory, making decisions with factors we never see. They are learning and sharing their chosen life with us, and we get to live vicariously through them.
They listen and learn and test and build, and sometimes tear down and rebuild, with lessons learned as they go. Every step takes them a step closer to their dream-in-reality. What shape it will be? We never know, because today always shapes tomorrow, no matter the plans of yesterday. I believe, the original was to have two beehive domes, side by side, with a hallway between them, but, over time that shifted. They don’t even know what the end-shape might be at this point, but they are working toward a dream. When will the get there? I’ve owned my (already built) house for decades, and I’m still working off my project list.
Will they ever be “done”? I don’t know, but, probably not while they still have strength in their arms and dreams in their heads. Will it reach the point where they are living, full-time in the structures they built with their own hands? Probably, and not in too many years. Is it slower than the instant-gratification generation who wants to be entertained would get to? Yes. For those, go watch those “dug a secret underground home with a pool, by hand, in the jungle, with just a stick and some stones” entertainment stories, and then see how much actual work anything along those lines would be.
I expect that the Sombrero portion of the dome will be done before high summer, possibly sooner, but … *shrug* everything moves at its own pace. Maybe the interior of the dome will be done sooner, and we can see them moving into that living space, maybe, as they said, they will stage into the root cellar before that. Only time will tell. I know I’m looking forward to whatever muraling or decoration the interior walls of their house will have, and how it is lit both by the bottle windows, and by whatever other lighting solutions they come up with. But first the walls have to be completed, and that, in and of itself might be more than a years-long project.
Time and space for the creativity to flow. That is what they share with us.
@@freddymax5256 I bet they have accomplished and completed more projects this year than you have in a lifetime!
How can we contribute to Crews surgery?
Why aren't you living in the main dome? If it's not far enough along, why did you take a detour to work on the root cellar?
Watching from Danville Illinois.