Groundwork Episode 1 - Building With Cob
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2016
- Sculpted by hand from a mixture of clay, sand and straw, building houses out of cob is a full mind and body experience; one that requires patience. But these homes are worth the wait!
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Imagine grade schools, middle schools, high schools, and colleges all focusing on creating a sustainable natural healthy society, in harmony with nature. Man it would be so epic what we could create.
I'm a teacher and I think about this aaaalll the time. everyday. If only.
We had that at sacred Stone camp at Standing Rock, but the oil company made sure that wouldn't last. 😭
Start the ancestral revolution....
A heaven on earth?
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Every one in my family are just plain impressed with me. I'm 67. I just have 0 money lol and my dirt is free and so is the hay because it grew in the lot next to me by accident. And my dirt has the perfect amount of sand clay!! I'm doing this alone however over lath made of vástago stems from palm. It's an experiment so far. And so far is looking good!
make sure not to let any wood or plant product parts touch or be buried in groundwater,they expand can contract very strongly and can crack cob or cement ! good boots and hat! good luck!
How is your project going?
Did you continue with it?
Hey Ramona, did you finish it?
how it went?? updates please?
i wanna do a cob build so bad, maybe a fire pit to start! thank you to everyone of yall who are doing your part to harmonize us closer to nature. even just watching this video and informing yourself and opening your mind is a huge contribution! thank you and peace
I told my brother about building with cob and he said " You want to live in a mud hut?". Lol most people don't get why this an amazing way to build your home.
these homes look so welcoming and warm, very beautiful
The best lil part where it's said "shake things up a lil bit" 🤣
Maybe a more accurate title would be, "Philosophies behind using cob as building material" instead of the current one. Judging from another comment, I wasn't the only one misled.
I love how this video has been edited.
Earthen homes are so intune with the real spirit of life and existence, we are indeed one with the earth and to build a home with hands and feet does indeed infuse the spirit of those who helped to build it.
Earthen homes is definitely a trend I pray will continue to gain traction and the wide spread popularity it deserves.
The part I loved and made me smile, was when he said he never signed a contract or had a firm deadline, it was gonna take as long as it took :)
I loved that too!
woodyhayman But How is that possible?
Catalyst - D B it’s possible when you trust someone
Me too, my goal
How gorgeous I can not wait to see this come to fruition for myself and other families
🙏🙏🙏
Surely, I absolutely must build a mud house now. Living in a mud house surrounded by nature is just the thing that I want. Thanks guys for this great inspiring video.
when i was a child in England living on my dads farm we lived in a house made of Wiltshire chalk clay horse hair and hazlewood wattle s its like a panel of hazel branches interwoven about 4 by 8 ft that house was built in 1684 it contained a fresh water well in the kitchen an twelve plus foot wide inglenook fireplace with all the cooking devices crane like device 6 grown men could sit around the fire when it was damped down a bit the exterior walls were 5 to six feet deep at ground level tapering to 3 feet at the eaves wheat straw thached roof wich my dad redone as he was a thatcher as well as a farmer that house is still standing today and i can recall mother actually started the fire for Christmas celebrations and kept it lit burning till new year's day was over
Lovely memories for you.
I love the Christmas fire yearly ritual ❤
Magical
Beautiful 😍
This is amazing, I grew up with family that lived in the forest, our home was a mud-hut and I worked my self away from this and became aware of concrete house building with steel etc., which I worked hard to pay for with a 30yr mortgage. I worked at the Bank and so money was available and I now have a 2 storey building and I am still building. Now I want to go back and build a mud-hut that was my childhood days with freedom that we have. I love the coziness and the earth. Nice.
Did you go to school?
2:56 3 parts sand 1 part clay and 1-2 part straw. Now that is a standard formula for cob
THIS CHANGED MY LIFE THANKS!!! I KNOW WHAT I WANT TO DO NOW
My people have been building like that for 1000s of years, walked bearfoot and had health benefits for doing so. But we have been called uncivilized. With all this technology that u guys have u still behind when it comes to how nature works. Some of u guys start being humble and want to learn, I guess that's good. In the mean time we will wait for u to catch up with our technology. Yes im talking bout african great civilisation.
It's all psychological games
Perhaps its more useful to look first at what the word civilised means. Colonial Elites used used,brutality ,murder and enslavement of people in other peoples countries in order to enrich themselves. How were they able to do that. Because they had practice. The history of Europe is of Empires and war and so they developed skills and technology to affect the means to use violence to plunder. This is true of all cultures that develop hierachies. This was true of the African civilisations as well which were equally as sophisticated. Where human beings have been shown to behave with more real intelligence towards their environment is those that live in forests and jungles or deserts as hunter gatherers. They live in small groups and in the tribes that survived for thousands of years everyone is regarded as equal. Civilisation is thought to be the highest form of man but they always end in its opposite.
Same here, from India. Too much interference, colonization was a crime against commonsense. Technology is for wars, not for harmony with nature.
You are 100% correct about this dude. Let's combine technology and primitive skills together and the outcome would be fantastic.
lol
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL !!!! Notice how near all the people who participate in TRUE LIVING are the type of people you'd be blessed to be stuck with in a broke elevator 🤟🏻🤝🤜🤛
This whole series of videos is so great, we suggest all our students watch it. It reinforces everything we've taught for two decades.
- Earthen Hand Natural Building
I love natural beauty and nature. We need more earth homes.
I love the peace in these people's eyes.
Modern utopian dwelling! I love it!!!
Did you know if you understood the power of clay you would be blown away just how amazing it really is.....
love it can't wait to build mine
me too...good luck on yours..i will start next summer!
Would this work in Michigan?
I’m in love
I’m dying to try this.
How does the rain not deteriorate all that hard work
@@angeladawn2343 hey angela...the walls need to be built up off the ground a good bit...id say 2ft or more for good measure..then using a lime based plaster as a final coat, hardens and keeps the real heavy moisture out, and, the roof needs to o er hang out a good 3 or more ft so it keeps the rains from hittin the actual wall..
@@d.a.t.4699 thank your so much... this is just fascinating
Starting This Summer x
It makes me really happy that you can do this in the Pacific Northwest.
Yes that is Awesome.
I am hoping to be able to build My Home (mud-COB) Way down here in the Far South East.
Always Believing for the BEST!
This is really neat. I have always wanted to build my own house and now I think I would like to seriously give cob a try. I am going to do a lot more research on this, but it makes me excited.
DeeJay If you are still interested in researching cob building, there is a very good book called “the cob builders handbook“ by Becky Bee. I Purchased a gently used copy from an online secondhand book seller.
How’s your house? Done?
@@dawidczerniak5177 No, unfortunately I haven't been able to get any land yet! I am finally going to move to Colorado though after the summer and will be looking at land then! It's exciting.
@@2L82Sk8Bye Thank you! Sorry for the late response. I am finally going to be moving to the place I want to live hopefully forever, so I am going to start looking into this more seriously now. I will check out that book, thanks for the recommendation.
@@WeBAD3 try Southern Arizona Cochise county. Very limited permits septic, electric.
Very happy to see such a high quality video on cob
This is such an AWESOME Video. Thank you.
This video deserves great praise.Thank You.
wish I had known about this 20 years ago. thank you for sharing . 😊 would love to build a small green house
I lived in an old adobe house in Mesa AZ. The walls were thick and stored the day's heat in summer where the AC would work overtime during late evenings.
Just stunning! We want to build one of these for guests!
Agreeing with everything in this video. Thank you so much for the inspiration and hope! This is my life dream now.
This is so Awesome.thanks so much for sharing this with me 💖 from texas. God bless you always
You are so lucky to be able to build houses like these, and you have done such an awesome job,
we built a strawbalehouse and its great but by choice I would have built with cob, but in Germany building loadbearing is not allowed and so its not the house I really, really love to live in, though its feeling good with all the clay inside, warm, dry, kind of quiet....
Thanks for giving that very inspiring video to the world , hope many more houses will be build this way and maybe I can finally find a place where I can build my dream.
This was an incredible video, you have inspired my wife and I, thank you. Love Pender island and Sunshine coast ❤
it feels like our indian ancestors all knowledge has been taken by other countries & we indians only never understood the value of our ancestors knowledge of building cob house , living simple life & eating simple organic food & their ancient learning in every manner that was kind to each & every animals .. It’s all was with us but thn we called muddy people by thn & now these people are genius. I’m really feeling so sorry for ourselves that we didn’t care their value, their approach of life & their view on everything that has purpose to live an completely organized organic life but we’re thankful to them that they left us legacy & we had our ancestors who built the lifestyle that was always encouraging entirely earthly values. I still remember my grandparents cob buildings in my village,they are still standing since 100s of yrs ..As children we lived there, played there .. cob houses were not only in my village but everywhere in indian villages we had cob houses but we were called villagers, muddy people.. should our Indian ancestors not deserve an recognization, i just question?
this is awesome
The windows in these dwellings are magical
Such a well-made, informative video. Thank you!!
What a beautifully made video!! I have watched it multiple times, having saved it in a playlist. Thanks for making and sharing this.
Awesome and inspiring, by some of the finest people. That's the way I'm going too!
I love so many of the things said in this 😊
Thanks for posting this video.
This is Awesome!!!
I'm hoping to build one of these someday ! !
Everything is a full mind body experience 🙃
1:25 what Patrick says, really hit me hard.
This is such an amazing Video. Thank you.
beautiful!
Keep up the good work 🙏❤️
Amazing work thank you
This is the kind of work that should be tonight in school
Beautiful homes
Great video, thanks for sharing.
Really great Documentary, thank you.
Shot very nicly. Lots of informative information Alhamdulillah. These folks do clean natural work!
beautiful home
I didn’t know that Cobb walls could absorb and D absorb humidity, I thought Cobb walls would mold. Wow!
Don’t even need to build a big cob house, you can create your own tiny little hut in ze garden. 🙂
I love it!! Makes me wanna hire an all dwarf construction company. Or maybe the actors in the Safety Dance video. 🤔
I love it great work or art
um i thought this was going to inform me on building groundwork with cob lol
same, but I'm not dissapointed with the video.
nope mots so much,but there are a LOT of instructional ones out there(build it and they will come!)
This video appears to be a pipe dream. I would argue that it is meant to increase the appetite of the wealthy so that they can camouflage their self proclaimed status as "middle class." And once it becomes popular among them then it will no longer be affordable to ordinary working class and/or those who used to have no other option but to build with cob.
Man.. I want to one at my place in northern Himalayas . Connect me to a cob guy .
@@varunbharti5249 you can search dharmalaya on Google. It's in siddhbari, himachal pradesh founded by didi contractor.
Beautiful 🥰🌿💐❤️🏵️
excellent video
Amen Sista!
Thank you for this video series. Any idea how long it has taken and how many people to build the house shown from 3:43?
demasiado bello.... y muy real.
Nice job thank you
My grandmother used to live in a house just like this one up until the early 90s - made of cob and built in a south indian, traditional Tamil way. Then came this thing called “modernization” and everyone started building with concrete, plastic and other nonsense. The result is what you see today - most cities in India are an unmanaged concrete mess.
This is love...
Does this material work for all climates, such as below zero and snow?
goals
I wish I could get someone to come build me a house like these
Question: if I built one in Florida would it be hurricane and termite strong?
Can cob be placed outside of metal siding straight up?
Love this idea and video but how do you change a window if it gets broke? Or plumbing? Just curious
good question
Won't it all tumble down in an earthquake if the entire structure is supported only by the cob?
In earthquake zones you have a concrete and rebar foundation--a "bond-beam".
Any one know how well cob holds up to being frozen. At 5000 ft in the Rockies that's my only concern with it.
I would like to learn about these techniques... where can i get the informations
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How do you do the ceiling?
Its 2023 now, how the house doing?
Gorgeous video, very insightful. Answered a lot of the questions I've had about cobb houses. I really hope I can make my own one day!
why do those all building seem to have low height of walls even when buildings are two-storage?
In which season should this be done? I live in South Central US, and I hoping through fall and winter. Digging trenches (footings?) now.
in a day and age where people want to impact every aspect of people's lives right down to a 6 yr-old's sexuality....it's so nice to hear someone remind us that we don't want to impact other people's backyards. beautiful video on too many levels to list here....as someone who's worked with his hands with tile stone and cement for 30+ years ..... thanks for this inspirational call to nature and aesthetic remembrance to that from which we arose.
What is the foundation like. Do you need one.
I wonder if there is any COB building in Newbrunswick Canada? Or can i take classes in Canada anywhere to learn this trade?
Cool
Unbelievable
Thats it
Im building one
The ceiling panels (10:50) struck my eye. They look like a woven basket. Can you tell me more about this product?
Canada has so much s p a c e ... wish I could make this on a mountain in my country.
I am desperate to build one but need help with how to start n some guidance of how to do it. Would be grateful if I could be put on the right track to progress
I really love these houses and their idea but what about the timber? These sustainable houses look like they consume more timber when looking. Which will mean something. Just curiosity. Love to receive a reply.
This is what I want.
I just bought a piece of land and I’m leaving in 4 days to head there and start this does anyone know how to fill dirt bags without lifting them I was thinking I need something like a giant shop vac to fill the bags I’m older not sure how many dirt bags I can fill and lift alone
Красиво. Есть же у людей фантазия)
Any problems with termites?
I've had issues (visible mud tunnels) in my traditional house. No mud tunnels in a very long time (after poisoning), but I always wonder if they're still eating my house... or did structural damage to it.
@storyhive yo, sisters, mi my self also between earth and video- tell me, what camera used here?
How cost effective is this?