No Construction Background Required // Earthship Build 

WOOT! MIRACLE IS MY GRAND DAUGHTER!!!! SOOOO PROUD OF HER!!!!!

It’s so nice to see young people who are not afraid to work hard! This is a great alternative that puts recycle repurpose reuse to work♻️

Awesome job Billy love the earth ship movement.

Cool that you're doing this! My folks live in a town that has one of the earlier earthships, the first in CO. When I was a little kid we went to a presentation on it, & I recently toured it when it was up for sale. I love the way they've made improvements on things like cooling using design similar to ancient Egyptian structures. Earth shelter with passive solar, in general, is a great choice when the solar orientation is available.

Earthships have some really neat concepts, primarily maximizing solar gain and storing it in a huge thermal mass while using earth tubes for ventilation as needed. I don't think tires are the way to go for most people (it's for keeping your costs very minimal at the expense of huge amounts of labor.) I also looked into rammed earth and compressed earth blocks (CEB or PEB). I've settled on dry-stacking (and filling) cement blocks, insulation on the outside, and using a surface bonding cement/stucco to tie it together, and keeping the other concepts. Using that along with a solar collector for hot water and radiant floor heating I'm hoping to need virtually no other heating. I'm considering earthen floors. It'll be a lot of work but probably less than I'd need to do work to pay someone else to do it after taxes.

I am so excited to watch you chronicle this process!

This is probably the best time of year for what y’all are doing there. Winter in Arizona is when y’all can work all day without killing yourself with the heat, but the season doesn’t last long. Summertime siesta is essential to survival there. I spent eight years in the Phoenix area, and for six months I pedaled a bicycle four miles to and from work in triple digits.

I have wanted to build an earthship for several years now, enjoying the videos.

There is hope for the future with ppl like that ! Love it!!!

😂 coffee cup goes into the tire 😂I love it.

Michael Reynolds harnessed his inspiration, insight, and knowledge and was motivated to use trash to build a structure that uses naturally occurring physical forces for light, heat and cool the structure and gather/store water. Natural Genius! Thank you.

Thank you for the Video Billy

I really appreciate you sharing your experience building an earthship. I’ve been intrigued by them for a while, though I have not found many examples of them in rainy climates. If you are able to build a functional earthship in North Carolina, that would be some great inspiration to bring them to the east coast!

Very cool video!!!✌️😎👍✝️🙏🥱💤😴

I admire the concept of a home that is as bill free as it gets and accompanied with the conveniences we in this modern world are accustomed to. Why should we have to pay big brother and his big utility jerks for something I could produce myself. When you get to the grey water filtration system, please (if you will) post detailed a detailed explanation of how it is constructed.

There has to be an easier way to fill/pound those tires LOL

Can’t wait to see the finished product

These young people are awesome. The older folks are too..

These are only good in arid areas though right? Wouldn't the tires leach into the ground water?

Well done thanks for breathing life into this awesome technology

Loved hearing the concept that an earth ship is similar to living in the middle of a thermos. It helped paint more of a picture of how it stays cool / warm 🙂 Great video!

This is awesome 👌 👏 👍

Cool stuff

Loved the ladies doing a 7 minute tire poun, if I understood her correctly. Amazing. Though there are issues an earthship is definitely a community pyramid type building that will look so muchmore cheaper in 50 years!

I would love to live in one of those.

Very cool! I'm impressed with what they are doing and good on you for getting involved.

I thought a person getting into this type of thing would have known who Micheal Reynolds is first.

I love earthship homes.

This is awesome 🤩

That’s quite an operation!

Holy Cow! Is Perma Pastures doing the earth ship intern thing in New Mexico or Arizona?! I’ve been watching these videos for about 5 years now, I’m thinking about going myself.

Nice video ❤️ 👍

Brilliant idea,,awesome community 👏 👍 👌

That’s crazy. Does the tires leak any poison into the earth? This is absolutely amazing

Smarter, not harder…a beautiful miracle…this is awesome.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yB8NcasZN-c.html It seems that if the top sidewall was cut out, like in this video, time an effort would be significantly improved!

I did research on this method decades ago. Although the end result can be amazing, it just wasn’t my cup of tea.

How does the earthship keep you out of the wars & other issue's going on around us, as the one lady was saying? 🤔 It's interesting & look fwd to seeing as much as possible from now to completion. Maybe build a barn or shed next. But yeah .. the questions been asked ... rubber wears out, chemicals that are in the tires, leach first. What makes this a safe option to build with vs straw bales, sandbags or something similar?

I lived in Fort Worth during that storm. It was worse than you can imagine. No heat or water with no way to leave. The roads were total ice. While there are climates that can handle it Texas and it's fossil fuel based energy Texas is not.

This is great, how did you find this event, opportunity.?

How long would something like that take for the average person to build?

Its much easier and faster packing the dirt if you cut the sidewall out. This method is insanely time consuming doing it by hand without a pneumatic tamper. Its a fine way to buukd though if you have free labor.

Alexander from Oaktown haha!

Do you know if there has been any studies with using tires and the chemicals leaching to the ground? It's awesome to recycle, but that would be a big concern for me.

You would think after the decades of experience in building these structures, there would be a less time consuming way to pound the tires.

Very interesting...I like reusing items to make things. A sustainable building is great. Do people use tires in all climates or just arid ones? I wonder how the last guy thinks projects work in solar if not with some type of profit making? Here in coastal NC we have put in 1,000's of acres of solar farms. Not sure they are so good... They take up land that was used for farming and the migratory waterfowl like swans don't use the areas any more.

Shit that’s a lot of resources cool project tho

Would using a hesco barrier with compact dirt be a good alternative or do the tires provide better structural support?

I’ve seen builds that they fill the tires with dirt and now I see rocks in this video. Is it possible to fill them with sand instead ?

HAVE SEEN MANY VIDEOS WITH TIRES BUT THEY NEVER SHOW THE FINISH PRODUCT....

how do they put a roof on an earth s hip?

So when are you building yours! I'll come help pound some tires

I admire their work ethic, but I can't see the logic in spending years to build your house. Regarding no construction background, for centuries homes were build by people with no construction background. Its not rocket surgery. Plumb, Level, and square. 99% of these young people will never build an earthship of their own, but the experience teaches them how much work goes into things they never thought about AND teaches them a new respect for "dirty construction workers". (My buddies and I were once talked down to at McDonald's because we were so dirty. It had been a rough day.) I hope everyone learns what they came there to learn. Just a thought from a dumbassed welder... Why not cut out 1/2 or 1/3 of the sidewall on the TOP. Keep the "full sidewall"part facing the builder and have the cut out part be in the wall? Wouldn't that potentially help tie the wall together better and still have the "full tire" look and function on the outside of the wall? Or.... Cut out the sidewall 100% on the top like you do for 'farm roads". It would fill and pound easier/faster and still be structurally sound..

Any conversations about the amount of topsoil erosion for soybeans vs. grass fed beef?🤧😝

Hey does anyone have Sabrina’s contact. I would like to talk to her about earthship from an architectural perspective. I have a few ideas would appreciate her feedback having worked on one.

If you don't have a pick handy, you can just pry it open with a level. 🤫😋 On a serious note, tho. It looks like they ram the bottom row with gravel, then all the others (?) with dirt? I see they put cardboard in the bottom, what keeps that from busting out while ramming?

Rammed earth is better, read David Eastons books on rammed earth.

Man, leave it to the greenies to slow the process down even more to build a house.

Are tired absolutely necessary?? Concrete? Or is mentioning this like insulting vegans lol

No construction background??? That's a lie, someone or multiple people there seem like they know what they're doing in terms of foundation etc.. because if that were true I would just throw them all down and cement them.. they're using levels and construction tools... Great way to mislead

The earth ship movement has been around for about five decades. It is, in theory, a very good idea. The only issue is, land. The majority of these communities are in areas that aren’t conducive to a larger carrying capacity. In other words, all of the resources that are grown will not sustain a larger population. Another land issue. If private citizens don’t own it than the government does. And even if you own the land the governments have their arbitrary regulations. Some states have homestead rights. But the choosing is slim, and usually contested for the choicest lots. Finally, there aren’t many people that live this life long-term. So the ambassador populace is nearly non existent. If a celebrity would get on board than it would take off. But even these “green” celebrities are just corporate shills. Like greta thunberg.