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  • Hobbitling
    spring fever
    • May 2006
    • 2237
    #1

    my future home...

    I saw this and couldnt resist.

    -oOo-
    http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm


    Hey Gary, the guy said he built it with little more than a chainsaw, shovel, hammer, and chisel. Got a few months to spare to help me with a little project? or it could be the backcountry heritage underground lair,...I mean headquarters.
    He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.
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    • centerfield
      #2
      he said it was built "with help from passers by"...what, they yelled "hey you - come over here and help us build a hut" to people walking by? what a grat idea! Tomorrow morning I'm starting an addition to my home - there are lots of people who walk past my house - it should be finished by xmas.

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        • 1894
          Member
          • May 2007
          • 1341
          #3
          I liked this quote regarding the structural framing

          " 30 or so small trees and a bit of chainsawing later. Lift logs, prop up, nail together and continue until no longer wobbly. "
          Phil



          “The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.” —Herbert Spencer

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            • kwc
              loser
              • Apr 2004
              • 1300
              #4
              looks like something from Lord of the Rings ... and Hobbitling found it. OMG, Hawk is gonna have a field day with this one ...

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              Once a year, go some where you've never been before.

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                • RC
                  Woods Runner
                  • Mar 2005
                  • 333
                  #5
                  I love it. Makes me want to move.


                  RC
                  "Lead by Example, Follow by Choice"

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                    • DRIFTER
                      .
                      • Sep 2007
                      • 897
                      #6
                      I wonder with building codes being what they are, if you'd be able to put up anything like that here. Hay bales are supposed to be excellant insulation.

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                        • lumberzac
                          Beware of the Lumberzac
                          • Apr 2004
                          • 1730
                          #7
                          Originally posted by ADK-DRIFTER
                          Hay bales are supposed to be excellant insulation.
                          Thermal insulation, yes. Fire insulation, no.

                          The aesthetic seems a bit too whimsical for my tastes, but the premise behind the design is interesting.
                          A man needs to believe in something. I believe I'll go hiking.

                          http://community.webshots.com/user/lumberzac

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                            • redhawk
                              Senior Curmudgeon
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 10929
                              #8
                              Originally posted by hobbitling
                              I saw this and couldnt resist.

                              -oOo-
                              http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm


                              Hey Gary, the guy said he built it with little more than a chainsaw, shovel, hammer, and chisel. Got a few months to spare to help me with a little project? or it could be the backcountry heritage underground lair,...I mean headquarters.
                              You could move to New Zealand and inhabit one of the hutches in the Shire there....
                              "If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it." Lyndon B. Johnson

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