Storm Strikes While Building Our Pole Barn House 

Jess is coming out of her shell and lovely to see her smiling and joining in. Great work guys.

Jess's cobb reminds me of cool ancient ruins of dwellings lasting from thousands of years ago

Guys, I never knew it rained so much in the desert till starting to watch your channel! LOL

Look at you guys.. A pole barn how fun. You two are killing it. Have a beautiful week you two..!!

I wish in one of these next videos you’ll get a flashlight and let us see how much water is in the giant Reservoir❤

Can’t wait to see the walls go up.❤❤

Good afternoon to my Favorite Dirt Bag Couple. It is looking great. That must not have been fun in the wind. Keep up the great work and progress

Wow, I just noticed that you guys are over 75000 subscribers! Well deserved. Great to see how the house is coming along❤

Mines gonna look like Aniken Skywalker home in the desert. Can't wait.

I would bery very wary of the concrete pillar and post placed on the top of the stairwell leading into your root cellar. Without reinforcing that wall, if you put pressure on it from the top, it's just a matter of time before it collapses.

Keep up the good work. I am learning from you.

Any and all steps forward are exactly that. Progress is awesome, y'all should be excited for what is to come.

Just an all around happy video 😊 it's definitely easier for us to get a feel for the additional space you're building and how it meets the dome. You won't know what to do with all that extra space! You guys really are amazing ❤

Jess climbed the ladder like a pro! Take the training wheels off.

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Everything's really starting to come together! Looks good. The persistence and the creativity you guys have is very inspirational.

Y'all are troopers getting things done even on a windy day.

Just got out of hospital last night…I looked for your program…glad it’s here…thanks. Very much

Hey guys, I was looking forward to this weekend’s video. I just got out of the hospital yesterday. I had a heart attack Thursday night. They put a stent in one artery. All the others were clear. Kind of scary since just last year I had very extensive cardiac tests and passed with flying colors. Anyway, your videos are relaxing. Thanks.

Love the Cactus Wren in the mornings. Makes the desert sound like a jungle at times.

❤☔ ☔ 👌 🙏 progress

I still thinking that your coloured shingles look so awesome.

Another step closer

Good Morning.... Wow, put a Pole Barn Shelter over that is a great idea so it does not Flood...☺️

Another excellent video!! ❤❤

Hey guys. Been following your channel and progress for many years now. I’m not trying to be negative but I’m concerned for your build and would hate to see your hard work destroyed by the winds out there Watching this video it appears you have set those posts 12” to 18” in the ground. Realistically they should be set at least 3’. 4’ might be better given how severe the wind can be in the desert there. Alternatively you could dig 3’to 4’ and pour concrete piers and set fasteners into them to bolt the wood posts to. I know it’s ridiculously difficult to dig into that soil. You should be able to hire someone with a machine to dig the pier holes or rent a machine fairly reasonably.

You have a lot of projects to finish. That’s a lot of work. It will keep you out of trouble for sure. Hahaha

Wow ! That is a pretty cool Hut You have built out there :) man that is a lot of mud a lot of work, You have some nice shelters & roofs for catching water your getting set up pretty good " your dog is so cute from just mellow to burning up the yard !

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I live on the Mesa in New Mexico. I HATE THE WIND AND RATTLESNAKES. Other than that it is bearable and beautiful rainbows and sunsets.

Happy for rain? life off the grid, will do that. thank you stay safe ALL

I ♥️ the teamwork!

Nice to see Crew out for a walk !

Jess , I love your ren and stimpy shirt !

Loving the music..👍😊❤️🦘🙃🎶

I'm a little worried about how shallow you are setting your long posts. The one's close to the dome looked to be only a foot or two in the ground. I know you are going to concrete them in but you might want to sink them deeper in the ground. Just a thought.

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G’day, great to see you are doing well. Keep up the great work. I look forward to each of your updates. Thanks for sharing.

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Kia Ora & Good Morning from Auckland, New Zealand ...great video.

Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love and bless you guys.

Some days I miss videos from GDP, but then I get one from OSRL and feel so much better.

Seeing the posts gives me a better idea of the size of the "cabin".

Jim, those posts next to the root cellar walls should be on concrete pads. Cob isn't strong enough to bear that type of force over a small area. Sorry for making a negative comment, but I'd hate to see you find out the hard way. Use a broad slab like base to spread the area the force is distributed onto.

Hey guys, just curious… I guess you don’t have to worry about termites in the desert. In Georgia those fence posts would probably only last five years.

I am so excited for you all! It will be fun to watch your house come to life ❤

enjoying the build, can't wait for the straw bale construction

Super nice work guys again, looks great too , hopefully the weather can hold off for your build project

Watching you in the wind rinded me of how awful the wind can be coming of the mountains. In my mind, spring wind in northwestern Alberta were the worst. But the prairie winds are every bit as bad. I always had ear aches from. The wind as a kid. Nice work on the cob and on the build! Thanks for the video!

My comment on broadcast voice was for Jessica!

All the best from Queensland Australia. Not to brag but we use wheely bins for our rain guages.

I really wish you could make more videos,, I'm so desperate to see everything...🤗

Greeting earthlings . my best to you

It's looking good !!

I reccomend that you put a couple pieces of like railroad ties under that new section of pvc pipe you replaced ,permanently.James its called,if you lay down with dogs,you'll rise up with fleas.

Hey how you guys doing today it looks like it's going to rain storm out there looks like there's not too good I guess but I'll be able to get all your other projects done and folks have a great day and then we love you guys

What about your underground storage tank level?

great work! would love to hear more about your planned gardening.

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Get a harness for roof work. Stay safe.

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This is so exciitiiiiinnngggg! I kind of wonder if the day you were setting posts is the day we had an eensy microbursty situation that ripped one of the roofing panels off our hawk mews. How are your can shingles holding up? They still look really good.

not sure if u know but the sierra vista transfer yard has some compost available right now for free i think. got a load of mulch saturday, if i coulda made 2 trips i woulda got some compost too

Awesome team 👍🏻 looking great, I see the lad looking better 😉 👍🏻 stay safe ✌

You guys are do much better. Seem more happier I love it !!! Are you guys going to seal those walls to stop erosion?

I can hear the broom song from Fantasia (1940), lookn at the posts!

Stay safe and blessed project looking grate👍👍

Love it so much keep it up as always 💘

Bonjour Uve ! Bravo encore et toujours !💪👍👏❤️

Looking really good. Exciting 😊

Just saw yall! Cool! Imma follow you!❤ Bless you & your hard work!

Be safe always watching from ont Can with love n peace.

Just a comment. I have heard it is not a good idea to poor concrete for the post foundation as it tends to rot over time and break down. Derek Howlet used pea gravel for this poll foundation when he was doing his fencing. Just a thought.

Love coming along for the ride. Thanks. Off-topic, but how long ago was the cistern completed, and how do you keep that water from becoming stagnant? Blessings

What did you use for the decorative shingles around the roof? They are very pretty.

Praying for you to get better. From South Carolina

Jim is looking buff in the shoulders and chest. Que manly, hombre. ;)

My experince with posts is 3 quarter crush gravel so water can drain away some post I did was put some concrete at the base of the post then finish it with gravel I also dug out some cedar posts that the pioneers planted and they had a little rot at were the ground met the post .

Right on 👍🏼

I remember those desert storms with great fondness. My late husband was a native Arizonan, and he taught me (a southern hillbilly from the woods n hollers) to appreciate the beauty of the desert. You have a wonderful place!!

The rain is on the way stay hunkered down

Is the owl box still on the roof? What color did you paint the brick bottles on your shed? Just curious. I'm proud of you two building your home out there. I'm thinking of having a cellar as well. Trying to come up with ideas. Cheers to you both.

Looking good guys!😎👍

Hi, folks! I was wondering if you had read about how setting wood (even treated wood) into concrete, actually shortens the lifespan. The problem is, with swings in temperature, whenever it drops below the dew point, there is condensation…even in the wood. With concrete, there’s no place for the water to drain. So, more and more, rebar enforced concrete piers are placed with the wooden piers attached on top by galvanized attachments. It means, you would have to place temporary supports until permanent structural supports were built in. You might have a little longer before rotting occurs since your humidity is usually low, but during the monsoons, the humidity is 50% or higher. There is a RU-vid video you might want to watch: “How we set posts on concrete ll Dr. Decks.” I had to replace the buried (treated) posts on our gazebos just because of this. The weather is wetter up here in the Pacific Northwest but, as I mentioned, your humidity rises during the monsoons. Just a thought to consider before the posts go in permanently. The Home Depot folks can give you more info/advice on this. PS: You have a wonderful broadcaster’s voice! Best regards, Marshall Dressel

When are y’all going to plant some trees on your property?

You guys are so cute!

For some reason I thought after 3 weeks you would have those posts cemented and tied together and ready for framework. I know it rained a bit ton, won't that make them all unstable by rain filling the holes?

You have worked so hard on the cob structure and it looks sooooo good. Now you are going to attach a less than attractive pole shed up against it?!?!?!?!???

Guys are the two poles on top of the concrete blocks very close to the edge on ground that could easily move? Love you guys, you are so inspiring

The entrance to the root cellar never made any sense until now with the pole barn roof going over it. (Maybe I just missed your explanation of this on earlier episode).

Do you measure the posts to be sure they are completely straight up 90 degrees?

I've got a question, isn't the roof of the root cellar going to be the floor of the house? I'm just thinking that you keep cutting parts of it off and... That's gonna limit your floor space? Just wondering. Great videos!❤

its comin together guys...YAY lol. just curious what changed yer minds on this addition to the house? awhile back u talked about a 2nd dome then mebbe a strawbale addition and now its a pole barn. just curious. stay strong guys....

I don't understand why you guys don't finish your Dome and seal it like it should be cuz then you're going to have to do it again

You are moving in the house building . When is your raining season? West coast weather of USA is crazy . Is the owl box doing it's thing?

😢😢 I had an older neighbor whose dog kept knocking her over. You may want to teach her not to do this because if Jess becomes the least bit weak and she gets to jumping it could damage neck or worse. Yikes.

Would it be crazy to build 100% underground? Seems like I would enjoy living in a Cave. ❤😅

Are those posts level?

Hello - I was hoping Jess got up like spiderwoman.

What happened to Crew???