Reciprocal Roof Sheeting & Skylight Frame | Underground Earthbag Building | Weekly Peek Ep66 

The fact that you have exactly enough for everything is divine! God BLess!

Yay! Waited all week!

the whole disign and fit of this building is so pleasing

Long time listener, first time caller. This was one of your best produced videos, no degradation on your past postings, this must had a nice polish. Please keep up the awesome vlog, hopfully soon, I can apply what I'm picking up from your awesome work.

Wait what?! That was the last one?!?!?!?! Oh Lord! I Must have more!!! :D By the way I am so jealous of your family being able to do all of that together, Count your blessings and be Very Thankful! You all are blessed!

Fear of falling, fear of falling! My hands get sweaty and I get sick to my stomach watching you guys Can't wait until the roof is finished! Cathy

You may find that the hole location causes a split out at the bottom of the joist. The bottom of the timber is under tension so ideally the hole would be half way between the top and bottom. Where the tension and compression is neutral.

We just never told when we fell! What mom don't know won't worry her! Got to love a retriever, he don't care how it got there he is going after it! Charlie

Looking good

Gary, great job stepping away after the third failure.... Sometimes its needed. I will say however I don't think we get to see a lot of frustration on the clips. Everyone gets along very well. I can say from my own home projects sometimes a hammer will fly or some curse words will be uttered. Great to see you guys do so well. You inspire me to keep trying and do better.

I love yalls videos. I hope one day I can put some of what I learn to good use.

Finding that skylight was a Kozmik Koincidence!

Awesome creation guys ! You guys really know how to put stuff together! Real cool skills yo 👌👌

Hello there. Watching your channel is a breath of fresh air for me. I love seeing how your family interacts with the daily issues of providing a good off-grid homestead. I'm fascinated in all things off-grid, permaculture and eco-building. I'm actually in Bulgaria (that's a country in Eastern Europe) and working on getting my permaculture / eco-building business called "Blue Skies EOOD" off the ground. (The eventual goal is to help make public orphanages here self-sustainable as well as teaching the kids how to be more self-reliant through a combination of permaculture design, eco-building, honest grass roots business (even if it is just a fruit stand at the local market), and hopefully one day even a credit union that will allow the kids to create a financial system to fund themselves to travel or pursue education). Wow, that was long-winded, huh? Anyway, to get down to the heart of the matter of why I'm writing, while watching your channel I've never really seen how you cook or if you use natural gas. and if so how you get your gas for your stove and I was curious as to if you have your own methane bio-gas digester or not and if you don't I wanted to share some cool videos that I found on youtube about them incase your interested. This is a safe and effective way for you to provide your own cooking gas and garden fertilizer out of ground up food waste (yes, you can even put cooked food, oils and fats, etc. ) Here's some more info on a quick build or two that you might be interested in: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Cwm5Rm8uIsk.html (I liked the above link because it shows you a quick and easy way to build and cheap large system.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3AZv6MjZylo.html (I liked the above link because he gives you some good info on different types of system and how to feed them.) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3SQ26MVbT2w.html (I liked this one because it shows you two mini systems that you can try out to see how they work before committing to a larger system.) If you do have your own methane bio-gas digester, I would love to pick your brains about it. Anyway, wish you lots of blessings in your adventures. Kind Regards, Yana

Oh man do I know that "I just screwed up royally" time out break

Awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

You could put some kind of reflecting material inside under the octagon to maximize the light inside

you are build a kind of "ring anchor". Every building needs this on top of the topmost wall between the wall and the roof. Otherwise the weight of the roof (+ snow +water +etc) will push your walls to the outside. I build one on my garage to hold the weight of the green roof (4-5 t).

Great job, y'all!

Y'all are crazy, but amazing! XD There's some serious skill and technical know-how involved in this, and I've gotta say, I'm more that a little bit jealous.

that is looking good guys

I've watched so many of your videos that I dreamed I was out there with you last night. I'm for real. LOL

great video

Great idea ! Love your ideas !

I think the word you were looking for on finding the perfect fitting skylight is kismet...

Awesome

is the underside of the boards going to be seen? I know ppl don't usually leave it exposed. but I know a guy who had a cabin. and he had the chip board we call it. he had sanded and used sealer and polyurethane clear coating on it. it looked really good. also it helped reflect light and made for easier cleaning. but the hard part is sanding it to get it smooth. then seal it. all the different chips of wood reflect light differently. it can look nice. just an idea if its going to be exposed. I was hoping you guys would put a sky light in the center. and the eaves look great. great video!

we did it reddit!

I would like to see ya'll incorporate a persian style wind catcher tower into one of your builds. they go well with earthen homes. ancient air conditioning of desert dwelling people

I wanna see how the reciprocal roof-frame done. How the middle was formed

"sheathing" is the word you are looking for six years later

kool

This is not like other reciprocal roofs that I have seen (or built). Normally the rafters sit on top of each other - like you had in your test roof. It looks like you just built an octagonal frame for the center and nailed the ends of the rafters to that. It looks similer, but I can't imagine that it is anywhere near as strong as a traditional reciprocal roof. I think this is a critical mistake. Am I missing something? In a normal reciprocal roof, there is almost no outward pressure on the rest of the structure. As long as the ends of the rafters are secured in the middle, the force on the outside is almost entirely downward (not outwards) - so I think the cable would be completely unnecessary.

-we did fall ma we just never told you

snazzy

Belt and braces 👍

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A great video, I love the series. Only the music is quite loud, and I think it doesn't match the style of the series as well as it could've. But keep up the good work

Крутяк! А нагрузку какую держит?

I'll be sorely disappointed if the next episode doesn't involve installing a fireman's pole.

Awesome! Is the skylight supposed to be blue or does it have a protective film?

lol the bright one what?

It don't look underground to me ... maybe I'm just not seeing the underground part idk

"The laaaast melon!"Does anyone else know which movie he's quoting?

how can i get the plan, i would love to build myself an underground studio

Gary you have to hold off on mind altering substance until after work. Just kidding.

You can borrow the voice to some cartoon character😁...sounds kind a cool

what do you estimate the R value for the insulation of this wall structure? best

Heptagon

I love you guys!

I would like to see ya'll incorporate a persian style wind catcher tower into one of your builds. they go well with earthen homes. ancient air conditioning of desert dwelling people