Hacks for the Homesteader Group
Questions, discustions, and possibly answers to the mechanically curious or challenged😊
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Open source Ecology.
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Open source Ecology.
Scope is to rebuild civilization from the ground up using open source plans.
They have completed a tractor, and an clay brick press.
I have been very impressed with their progress.
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Link to the OSE website:
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I’ve pressed bricks by hand. They machine is very interesting!
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I don’t have clay on my property, but I thought about buying a load to make a cob oven with…
What did you build with the clay bricks if I may ask?
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In response to Ian we will be making a “mud” stove/oven that’s fueled with wood.
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A couple of houses. The area I lived at the time had LOTS of clay. One house we used clay mud/slurry for mortar and the others we used a cement mix.
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I absolutely love the thought process in this. He shows that simple cost effective designs can do everything and a lot more for sustainability than even the newest most technologically advanced, complicated, insanely high cost pieces of equipment on the market today. It absolutely makes the analogy of “as soon as you drive your car, truck, boat, RV, equipment purchase etc. off the lot, it’s already devalued and obsolete” make perfect sense. The system has had people throwing tons of $$ chasing the newest and best and bandaiding all the issues for generations, when if we’d simply stick to common sense basics, we survive and thrive as communities instead of working ourselves into an early grave for basically nothing.
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Yes, yes and yes.
One of the things I do like about them is they deliver. They make goals and achieve them. They have a clay house finished.
Sometimes it does not make sense to build from scratch when you can find an used item at a good price, but with the way our shipping is, and trying to get our parts from the other side of the world, being able to build from scratch is making more and more sense.
Open source means people from all over can improve the design. I adore open source design myself.
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Can’t agree more. I’ll definitely need to look more into this so that if/when I’m finally able to acquire and build my own property I’ll have more knowledge and ideas to integrate it into the process. I’m grateful to have found this post.
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