Scammed, strange corn, Termite clay bricks, and then this happened. (day 17) 

Thank you for watching. I hope your day was as fun as mine! 😂😂😂

SO excited to see you are building a shade house! Love the native corn/maize. I hope it grows beautifully in your permaculture garden. Are there additional grains your workers can bring to the farm to test? The thing you are missing with the bricks is sand. Lay down a nice layer of clean sand in full sun. Dust the mold with sand and form your bricks directly on the sand. The sand will act like tiny ball bearings so that the clay brick can shrink without cracking. If you still have cracking - use a small chipper to chop some clean straw or hay into short strands. The smaller strands are just right for brick reinforcement. Lucas was right about how wet the clay must be. He was very close. If you can not keep up with the oven clay, start making a windrow so the ducks can eat the fresh termites while you are building a stockpile of mud that you can use on your various water slowing and spreading projects. 👍

Had a great laugh at the elephant storie😂😂😂 I really like your content. Great to watch content made of our country.👍

My comment disappeared. Wanted to say that I have learned to always call people back (a little later) to make sure the phone numbers are their own.

At least the police treat elephant poaching seriously.

That was so funny. Lucky for you no money was lost

Wonderful storey! I've no experience but I wonder if the bricks could still work. Maybe slower dry in the shade. Maybe what the potters call "grog" could be sand or ground up broken pottery, it helps reduce cracking. I just like the idea of trying to turn the termites from a problem to a resource. See you tomorrow!

you should plaster the inside of the pizza oven with the clay and then get a fire going, that will make it so the termites have no entrances inside to build from. Hopefully it will work if the bricks don't.

A good way to get things done is to priority 1 or 2 things that are absolutely important and do them first at the beginning of the day without getting distracted. Then once that is done, work on other maintenance things because those things will always get in the way.

Crazy

Sorry, I just saw the compactor, we call them “Vibrators”

WHAT A CRAZY STORY XD

Thank goodness you smellt a rat, and didnt get scammed. Sometimes things dont always go the way you planned it. But you know what, mantaince is important too, and also needs to be done too. Little by little. Great the people got back their expensive equipment. Sorry you didnt get a honest deal. Thank You for another video of kind of day you experienced. Never a dull moment hey!

Clay lump bricks are actually a traditional building material here in the east of England, they were made with chopped straw and also sand or chalk - we have a lot chalk in this area too (and it was burnt to make lime, which was used for the mortar and the render of these buildings). I actually used to work for a builder who specialised in maintenance of older houses, we spent a lot of time stripping off modern waterproof paint or plaster and replacing it with lime render to fix issues with damp and mould as the modern stuff were designed for damproofed structures and the older houses are definitely not damproof so need to be able to let the moisture out. Do gemsbok beans grow well in your area?

I also won’t some of that corn 😊

On the bright side: you now know the magic words for speedy police action. 🐘

No experience using termite mound mud in it BUT I suggest you research the CINVA Ram, to investigate Rammed Earth Bricks, OR it can be “stabilised earth bricks” if you add from 5% to 10% cement. The product is “Pise” which can last a 1,000 years, even better, with a period of 5 weeks curing then building, there is a cheap way to waterproof. Even further, there is a company, now in Texas, that bought the Dutch mechanical system for making the Rammed Earth Bricks, that can turn out thousands of bricks per day. If you can’t find it be doing your own research, let me know, I will send some links. IF you become interested, let me know. Hopefully you are talking about the same thing when you refer to a ‘compactor”.

Had you slaughtered the sheep?

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Net Mnr hier alone hierso xD