She Means Business! Building A Unique Underground Earthbag Home!
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2020
- She Means Business! Building A Unique Underground Earthbag Home!
We finally start construction on our underground earthbag house. We get some target practice in, and we find a couple cool surprises.
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hope u voted, ur cellar looks great...speedy work on gun range
Keep practicing! Bedroom coming up folks! Crew located him a trophy! Keep rocking it folks! Stay safe over there and Git-R-Done!
Crew was in heaven when he saw that skull.😆 It will be a cool addition once this house is finally up.😁
Thanks CB!
Wow! You guys are seriously motivated! It looks like you guys seriously know what you need to do to get things done!! I wish you two well!! I hope you'll stick to your goals.
Thank you!
Crew would make one heck of a cadaver dog!
Aerosmith...Jessie's got a gun... Haha! The earth bag home excitement continues! Man that skull was quite a prize to discover. So cool. Rock on you two.
Thanks Jay! I think that skull will be a nice addition in the house.
Love it!!!! Those horns are beautiful 🤩
Love it!! I'm so excited to see this build! That's a great find!!
Thanks y'all! 🙏
Awesome episode! You guys finally did some target practice! Oh yeah! Absolutely love the skull! So cool! Thanks for sharing this my friends!
Thank you Dominic!
I'm a Vet. Of course I would
Excellent! 🇺🇸
Once you get the bag walls up and the whole home kinda built...itd be cool in my opinion to dig further tunnels leading to deeper living pods ..
Reading the comments. I didn’t know you had so many firearms instructors subscribed to your channel!
Lol! You should see the comments on our "we were attacked" video. We have lots of bee experts as well.😆
A left handed right eye shooter, interesting! lol
Dude that bedroom is going to be so nice!
I think it will be. The best sleep I've ever had is in basements. Dark and cool.😎👍
Great job Crew, awesome find out in the desert.
Thank you Eric!
Hey Jim , I didn't know that you were a lefty . It's so exciting to see you start on the bedroom . The skull is gonna be awesome deco . Have a great evening and you two on the next one...Hi Jessica 🙋
Thanks Sherry! Jess is the lefty. I'm right handed.😁
I can see in my mind's Eye that Cattle Skull laying in the middle of some Greenery and beautiful flowers all around, so beautiful !! Just amazing guy's :)
I see that Jess shoots like I do, using using the opposite eye from the firing hand. It can make for an awkward line of site, although it makes aiming easier when firing with the off hand. If it works for you, go for it.
Jess and I are exact opposites with our hands and eyes.😆
Both eyes open, Jess!
What a nice, clean and intact longhorn skull, guys.. I'm sure you'll put it to good use!
That spadefoot toad most likely fell in some time ago -- you saved AND enhanced its life.
a lot of work ahead,, and good shooting Jessica.
Yeah, we just started building. A lot more to do.
She's a regular Annie Oakley. 😁
I took a psychology class in college and one of the studies we did proved how light effects your sleep. Somehow the light reacts with your skin effecting how deep you sleep and how long you sleep. Can wait to see your bat cave completed. I might hit you guys up to rent it out one night for my wife to catch up on sleep. We have 12 yr old triplets so getting sleep doesnt happen much in her life.
Sleeping in a basement has been the best sleep I've ever had. Hopefully I can get that again.😁
Great progress done friends ! 😊
Thank you Zule!
Great trigger discipline, Jess! Jim, you'll just have to practice more!
😆👍
Go go go! Looking forward to seeing how this goes.
Thank y'all!
keep it up love you guys!
Amen~!
Maybe add a window well and window for escape route from bedroom???
Great teaser for the next job. Take it slowest as needed.
Okay Jess, we know how great You're getting with the computer imaging. Turn Crew into a Jackalope lol put the steer horns on Crew and I will buy that pic lol. Thanks.
We'll work on that.😆
Fun... :)
Brings back memories of target shooting with my Dad as a kid, and hunting with him. The first time I ever swore in front of my Dad he was teaching me how to shoot a punkin ball with a shotgun. Even though I buried it hard in my shoulder, I was not prepared for the force of that kickback! I swore, and he just about rolled on the ground laughing at me, lol.
Im excited for the second underground portion! I bet you can do it faster this time, too, now that you have experience.
I'm sorry about the kickback you experienced, but it was probably funny hearing you swear. It doesn't seem like you would do that often.😁
@@ourselfreliantlife 🤣🤣🤣 I really wish we lived close enough to hang out together in person. I try to keep my language clean in “public”, lol. Not that I swear a ton or anything, but it’s not uncommon.
You can install windows in the bedroom but requires welding skills for a frame in the earth bag wall behind it you put in a horizontal culvert to get under the house wall then a vertical culvert to get to the surface. A simple frame at the joint of the 2 culvert sections would let them hold together long enough for the soil to lock together. Once you have the culvert in place you can paint the inside white or silver to get more reflected light to the window. And yes if the culvert is big enough you can set this up as an escape rout with a ladder in the vertical section.
If you want a low effort way to make that skull very spooky at night they make a spray reflective coating that would be perfect for just the eyes of the skull so any time someone hits it with a flashlight or headlights it looks back at them and stops when they move the light source away. No holes or wires needed just simply mask off the area you don't want to reflect light and spray a coating on.
Well that's it! No unannounced visits to your place!
😆
Cool skull
Just remembered all frogs are toads but not all but not all toads are frogs
Good place for doing some shooting!
That's what I was thinking. I'll take credit for that. 😁
Awww. Cute little 🐸 froggie! Nice shooting. I know how and I used to shoot well. I don’t like guns but I would use it if I had too! 😃👍 We are all gonna be working on our houses about the same time. Great skull! I feel for the cow. Hopefully it didn’t suffer too much.
Awesome! When do you think you'll start your build?
@@ourselfreliantlife Brian saying March. Lol
Beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel its coming along great
Thank you!
The Native Plains Tribes often decorated their buffalo skulls with painted designs. Maybe something like that for the Longhorn skull? I think psychadelic symbols would be rather inappropriate, but I am a geezer and what do I know??
Lol! Thanks for the suggestion. I think we'll end up painting it.
That's it I'm digging and shooting range hole in the backyard
Lol! It is pretty fun.😆
Nice Skull! That will look cool hanging on the wall of the house. Back in the early 80s I got a service call to an apartment with receptacles not working. As I looked around to see how the circuit was working I checked the patio light and it was out, too. I also noticed a hole below the patio light where the wood siding was splintered out. I looked inside and there was a corrisponding hole in the drywall that had been patched. Someone was inside the apartment shooting through the patio door into the field outside. Missed the open door and hit the wall instead, shooting right through the hot wire in the romex.
Wow! That's crazy. That doesn't seem like the best place to discharge a weapon.
Got lucky that there wasn't a scorpion or spider living in that Skull. Cool Find though. Did you get the bees taken care of? I have only watched that and now this video will check more out soon just found you .
Just subcribed enjoying your builds.
Thank you so much!!
👍
I absolutely would, assuming there's an intruder. For the grins of it? Not intentionally.
One time in the kitchen, I shot a mouse with a BB gun. I don’t mess around with mice.
Lol! They must be exterminated with extreme prejudice. 😎
If I was near you guys , I would help y all out some
Thanks Giles! We appreciate that.
I see pew pew I click!
I don't know if you've addressed this before?? But what about emergency exit from the bedroom? In case of fire.. intruder.. shouldn't you have a second escape if entrance is blocked?
Excellent jjs .. as i always seeespected .. theres a gun behind every blade of grass in amerikeeys ..😁pip pips and carryon pilgrims
Lol! That's what they say.😁
@@ourselfreliantlife thats what they say ..😂🤣😂😎
*Ammo prices 2020* : $500 per round
*Green Dream Project* : I'mma 'bout to drop a few K here shooting my house up
Nice video y'all! ;)
Lol! Actually her brother supplied the ammo. Very generous.
I would absolutely shoot a gun In the house, maybe I'll build an indoor shooting range/house on my land lol
That way you won't have to worry about your neighbors wondering if their neighbors are knowledgeable in firearms.
Indoor shooting range.🤔 I like it!👍
Correct
Perfect Construction using Earth Bags for Numerous reasons for firearm firing range!
Two questions; from the air your bedroom dugout appears to be hexagonal, why would you build round and not hexagonal? Secondly, if you are going to have a gun in your household, have you considered using snakeshot? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_shot. Perhaps you should have two or more clips with one dedicated to snakeshot and the other to regular ammunition.
Greetings from NE Ohio. Wishing you both a cool moist winter season for building and peace, health and happiness for the coming year.
Round is sound when it comes to earthbags. Hexagonal is just how it turned out when the excavation happened.
What means of escape will this bedroom have?
Ho Ho its off to work we go, again.
Taurus millennium G2 in 9MM Right.
Looks like a Smith and Wesson SD9 VE.
She's like my wife another Calamity Jane.
Definitely!😁
Congrats on getting that footer trench dug out. Did you buy or rent that breaker hammer? Have a great day - we’re staring at temps in the low teens next week. Getting cold here for a while.
That is cold.🥶
We picked that hammer up awhile ago when I needed to dig the septic trench.
@@ourselfreliantlife awesome tool! We rented one for a day to complete a sump hole for the hydroponic reservoir. Still took 4 hours breaking up the caliche. That was some of the thickest and hardest stuff on our property. Oh, also found a chert deposit 😩 keep up the great progress!
👍👌🇨🇦❤
How often do you get rain without wind? I'm concerned that your protective sheet will blow away.
Rocks are our friends.
And they DO have lots of rocks.
It's held up in some pretty strong wind.
How do you keep it from flood
Were you shooting left handed but with your right eye?
I do.
I'm a leftie but do a lot on my right side: sleep, kick....
Yup! Good eye.👍
What is the blister count so far?
We've lost count.😆
You might look into the new .30 and 357 air rifles. Cast your own pellets or slugs and use a 3000 PSI hand pump (Chinese, about $65 on Amazon) for free air 'propellant'.
Cool that your using your 2nd Amendment rights and owning and training with a firearm.
Ex: for example the Benjamin Bulldog is a good air rifle
www.airgundepot.com/big-bore-airguns.html
Initial investment is pricey but then you basically shoot for free if you cast your own projectiles.
Ex: hand pump
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Pellets
noebulletmolds.com/site/product-category/358/356-84-rf-cc5
Heavy slug
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Light slug
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ICYMI they are armed. DON'T STOP BY! YOU'RE NOT WELCOME!
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Are all the builds going to be round , why not the shape of the hole ?
Round is sound when it comes to building with earthbags.
Do you need help I’d like to learn but I have a bad back would I be able to do this?
It probably depends on how bad your back is. This is a physically demanding process.
Where are you located in Arizona ? I’m in deer 🦌 valley phoenix Az how can I call you? Thanks Ron
We're in Cochise county
So out there that’s all you deal with our snakes and crazy bees as your predators?? I wanted to know where did you get the pool lining and the earth bags from I went back on your videos it’s not in the description anymore
Did you check out this video? I checked and it looks like the info is still there.
czcams.com/video/vuSk9ThdB8w/video.html
Where you living Tucson? Where can I find land and do what your doing? How can I contact you?
We are South of Tucson. There are many sights available online for finding land. If you're looking in Cochise, you can contact Clay Greathouse from Tombstone Realty.
I would certainly shoot a gun in the house. Since my house is not dirt I will have to build a bullet trap.
The big benefit to dirt houses. 😁
She needs to fix her grip! Two thumbs forward - on left side.
Oh my ... where are my nitro pills Laura (Croft) ??
Don't feel bad my wife out shoots me every time... In our 45 years of being together I have never out shot her. It don't matter what type of gun I put in her hands a rifle or a pistol she is still Dead eye on..
So needless to say I've never gotten here mad at me to the point to where she would grab one of my guns... LOL 🤣 😂🤣😂😆
Lol! I think that's smart. I'm definitely not going to provoke Jess any time soon.😆
You have the wrong eye open
Your wife isnt holding that handgun properly, and always stand behind the shooter not ton the side .