Rammed Earth and Tire Wall
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- čas přidán 10. 01. 2019
- Making a Rammed Earth and Tire Wall is physically taxing! Rammed Earth and earthen homes and walls have existed since antiquity some are thousands of years old!
This technique is used for constructing foundations, floors, and walls using natural raw materials such as earth, chalk, lime, or gravel. In our case we added tires and used our natural Caliche rocks, calcic soils ( our dirt is like a limestone blend) to fill the tires to begin our wall. The nice part is that it didn't cost us anything for the supplies we used. This really is taking recycling, and up-cycling to the next level!
Rob's shoulder, elbow and low back have been yelling quite loudly for a massage! We are at the beginning stages of creating this wall. Originally it was going to be a junk project but a project like this is worthy of having it's own video. This has also been one of the most difficult video for me to edit as well. I hope you enjoy our video. Feel free to commnent.
Rob and I are in our sixties and have wanted our own piece of land for many years we are new to homesteading and prepping. I'm sure we will post most everything we are up too on Blissful Acres our desert paradise. Things like th solar system Rob researched and put together, building our greenhouse, fixing the well house, our home, sewing, cooking and even a video or two about our 1966 bus conversion Sedona Synergy. Looking forward to meeting you! Feel free to comment! - Jak na to + styl
I never get tired of watching these videos I can't wait for my mom to start the electric fence project around the property and not this one a real one something that actually works
We are so excited! Our Timeless Fence workshop is lucky to have expert Moses Woodson from High Desert Homestead to teach us how to properly install a fence that will keep the cows out of our yard!
RSVP with Moses if you are interested in joining us on April 18-20th. Email him at woodtnn@gmail.com
High Desert Homestead
playlist of the fence we are installing.
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We have movies covered. My son was talking about our video here on youtube.
Fantastic 😊
Thank YOU!
wow I thank that would make a cool bunker
Hi Aaron! We thought so too until we tried doing this project. 😆 You will need a young back and plenty of friends to help! 😄
Good for Ya'll ... turning 66 myself and can feel Rob's Pain ... in a Good way
Rob definitely does not need a gym membership! Poor guy has also earned a good massage for those poor abused muscles of his. Have a beautiful day thanks for your comment
Nice tire wall!!!!
Lot of hard work!!! 😆 it is still sitting there just as you saw it in the video!
😆 🤣 😂
Wow, I hope im still in working order to work this hard in 30 years.
We kinda ran out of steam on this project. Lol 😆 Plannin to switch it up with aircrete! Easier for us ol' folks!!
@@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098 I hear you, I've been digging a 200 square foot, geothermal,underground greenhouse by hand and it's tearing me up. I have to get another 2 feet down before the frost hits so I'll have a warm place to grow in the winter and a cool place next summer.
@@FrugalOffGridwe paid over a thousand to have someone come with an excavator to dig holes for our fruit trees. One hole ended up being 16 and a half feet deep due to the cement calache. Would have loved to dig a green house hole. Hmmm, maybe we will. We just bought an old RV carport frame and plan to use it as a green house. Not many days of freezing here. Thanks for stopping by new friend!
😁I see ken was here earlier...
Free project is awesome! Always nice when you can re-purpose old items that would otherwise go to the land fill.
Nothing better than free I guess! Plus the benefit of reusing and upcycling stuff we have laying around. I think this is going to be a very short wall! High enough to sit on but not very long . Lol
Really good work on that tire wall. Awesome!👍👊
Thank you! One of the things we realized is it's very very physical! Will be glad when it gets finished and then I want to make the benches and fire pit I saw in the video you posted.
That is what i would call a 'thousand year job', looks like it will last that long, very solid.
BAAAA HAAA !!! It will be at the rate we are going! Going to play with aircrete in the tires. Might actually get it done IN THE NEXT 50 YEARS!
Good hard work!
Watching and supporting full view life with Ken and Jane 🤠👍
Thanks for coming over and taking a look! Still want to get a metal detector can hardly wait to watch your video for beginning gold digging. I keep wondering how much gold we're bearing back in the tires! LOL
This is gold! Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge 🙏 🙏 🙏
Why thank you! Way to hard to do for us old folks! Aircrete for us. 😆 🤣 😂.
Love re-purposing materials! We have a whole lotta tires that somebody dumped in our ravine. Thinking about using them as a play structure of some sort for the kids!
There are so many things you can make with tires. I'm sure you'll get great ideas on Pinterest. Reusing an upcycling are a part of our journey stay tuned to see what else we're up too thanks for your beautiful comment.
The ymca close to where I grew up had a playground made from old tires. That’s back when being politically correct made you look gay and it was ok to say that it was gay cause it was...
Hi! Gay used to mean fun. Funny how even the meaning of words change..
We still have a ton of those tires! We stacked a few for wind block and make compost in them. . Hopefully we will have a gay ol' time making something creative with them! Thanks for visiting and commenting! 😉🙃😉
I think Brad paisley had a song that talks about the way things have changed...like words. It goes...
“Back when a screw was a screw, the wind was all that blew, and when u said I’m down with that, it meant you had the flu... I miss back when” oh how the times are changing! I feel like a dinosaur already at age 34.🤔 And I don’t have kids but I do have a very happy wife. Y’all take care and so much love from way down in lower Alabama 🙏👋🏻
Oh and I’m considering making one of those tire walls myself. I’m no stranger to saving money by repurposing and hard work. Also, no shortage of old tires dumped around here and I can clean up the countryside as a plus. Idk why more people don’t use these tires to build them earthships. I could totally live in one because of how cool they stay all summer. It be hot here in the summer...
That looks like a really sturdy and lasting way to build a wall. Will last several lifetimes. Tons of hard work, but great job. Thanks for the share!
Thanks 4 the comment! If we do get this wall built it should last forever and we will plant prickly plants on the outside so lots of Pokey cactus. Hopefully this will help keep the free range cows out. LOL.
Wow ,,,amazing !!!! This will be beautiful. I can't wait to see this when it's finished !!!
I am hoping we can work on it this winter. Now, I want to get our Fall garden ready. Super excited!
Really cool concept! Thanks for sharing! I was watching a youtube video where someone was building a house using tires are the walls, so many uses for tires, I wouldn't have thought off!
The little bit we did proved to us exactly how backing breaking filling those tires were. 😆 🤣 😂. Now we will use some for planters since wood is SO expensive!
@@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098 I am sure it was really hard work! I can only imagine!
Maybe just do one tire a day or so. 😊 I know it is really 😓 hard working. Lucky I found a younger man this time. Lol
Lol! Now to find a bunch of young people with young backs to help ! Lol!! Your home will be beautiful! So excited to watch someone else work hard! Bah haha!
We know this is hard work!😊❤️👍
Way, too hard for us old folks!!! Think we are going with aircrete. Lol
Cool stuff but where the foundation footing and tie backs?
We only got a few filled. 4 or 5 years later they are solid! Lol Back breaking work for even the young folks! 😆
I know that’s a very labor intensive project. Great job!👍 We need to do this to stop our erosion issues. We live in St David.
We pretty much decided that we are going to go with aircrete for the tire wall. Way to physically intensive for the two of us. Using aircrete will make this wall project a lot easier and will still help with the erosion issues. Thanks for the comment and I have an amazing day!
Blissful Acres Off Grid Homestead you too. 🙏😄👍
I know people pay high dollar for rammed earth houses. This definitely a low cost alternative 😉
Yes and insulates well too. Hard work. We never got any further than this. We are close to seventy, desire still strong but the get up went whimpering into the night! Lol 😆
Great job!
It was lots of hard work! 😆 we quit. Still want to make a walk way but will probably use aircrete in the tires. Thanks 😊 for stopping by.
Awesome!! So far it looks really good.
Hi Jo! So much to do the time flies! At least we have gotten some rain and the water is finally draining into the holes for the trees! As for this wall I think we will be looking at other ways to create it. lol Poor Rob! Love you!
I love the concept. I'm going to give this a try. Great idea.
Hi! Thanks for commenting! We loved the concept too, but NOT the backbreaking effort it took for so little gain! 😆
Wow! That would be exhausting. Very cool though!
O it was very exhausting and back breaking. We have decided to use air Crete with tires instead. Wow! Thanks for watching our videos.
We were going to build a tire/earthship house when we moved to Arizona, but the amount of work involved quickly discouraged us. Lol
Us too! Lol
gracias! desde Argentina
Hello and thanks for dropping in!
Looks like kitty was helping :)
Baymax loves to help! Lol
That would make a nice backstop for a shoot range 😁
It would but back breaking to set up lol. We are thinking of building with aircrete.
Hi Susan and Rob, great idea, some people also grow food with tyres as a container. love to see the wall finished and yes look like a very taxing job on back and joints but good exercise!! also would a cactus grow in the tyres? do you have lot of cactus variety there? the skies are great, i saw some good clouds, did you get some rain? how much rain do you get down your area? take care and be well xx send me link of Ella's video when she gets to make it, cheers
Hi CC actually I planted sweet potatoes and two tires stacked on top of each other and indirectly that's what gave me the idea for the wall. Sweet potatoes were planted too late and winter hit too soon, so no sweet potatoes. The wall has been back breaking. We've gotten quite a bit of rain so far this year. Too bad we didn't have our rain system setup we only get about 12 inches a year. Cactus will grow in just about anything as long as it's in Sandy soil. One of these days I'll take pictures of our cactus if they survive in the pots over the winter. You surviving the weird weather we are having? Hugs
Hi Susan, we getting temps of 44C now, water in my dam is very low, we are praying for rain...still we got some , first time in 10 years we owned the block we have seen such a dry winter and summer....we love cactus, it is my hubby fave plant...take care, keep strong, xx
Did you ever finish building this house! I would like to see the finished house
Thank you very much.
We quit. Backing work especially for us old folks! 😆 Eventually we want to make an aircrete shed.
I got about 20 tires done a few years ago....and quit. Lord It was hard!!!!
Way to hard for us old folks!!! We will still use them for planters. 😆 Thanks Summer for your comment and stopping by!!!
😆 I think we did like maybe 6 and gave up! Looking at maybe using aircrete when and if we are hit with insanity again!!!
🤔 😆🤣😂
Amazing view of Arizona -- is this in Pinal County, the south side of this range, where it ends with the Flat Iron trail? This is east of Apache Junction and also east of Gold Canyon, right? I used to live in a townhouse in Gold Canyon -- can't get enough of looking at these red mountains. Love it 🧡
Thank you! This location is between Kingman and Bullhead City. We have beautiful panoramic views here. Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!
That looks like a lot of work but I bet it will be incredibly insulated when it's finished. Hard to beat the price of free!
Sorry I assumed you were building a structure.
@@RedefineLiving no problems we are building a short wall. Wanted to do a small project first to see how it worked. Actually at this point a whole large wall for building a room it's just way too overwhelming for the two of us. I would love to do something like this though. An Earthen structure would be great out here the desert. And yes that wall would be extremely well insulated the perfect wall to help control room temperature. Thanks for the awesome comment!
One way to get rid of them😎👍
Problem is they Multiply like rabbits!
What all have you done with all those tires? I built several major walls with them and it wasn't easy, but it sure helped in clearing the rocks from around our homes. In the mountains and where we were living it also helped stabilize the hillside in several areas. But they can be a blessing and a curse, depending on your work load, LOL. Blessings
NOTHING !!! 😆 We have used some for composting. Thinking of using a few for planting potatoes 🥔.
Talking about continuing the wall with aircrete. Easier for us that way. Haha 😄.
@@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098 You probably already know, but planting in tires is great, as long as the sun doesn't bake the black tires, which would then bake the roots of plants in them. I once grew potatoes in tires and it was fantastic, but the sun didn't get to them (just one stack, not all). I was just curious about the tire wall since you had your place fenced in already. Take care, the summer heat is almost over.
Lol yes we wanted a wall we could sit on and enjoy the garden. Then we realized we needed to find an easier way. The electric fence has been a perfect solution.
I am hoping that painting the tires will help with heat issues plus they are ugly! 😄
are the tires the same size??
are the tires all the same size??
They are close to the same size. Thanks for dropping in and for commenting!!!
Is the wall finished.
Heck No! We are thinking aircrete. Way easier to do. Lol
everything looks nice....I have a farm how do you do it on a slope I want to contain animals like goats
You will want to gradually stack and fill your tires so that each layer leans more and more into the slope. Also, if you curve the wall you won't need as strong of a foundation. Hope this helps. It really works well. We gave up on this project. Great project for young people. 😆
@@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098 WELL THIS GOOD INFORMATION IS THE FIRST VIDEO WITH DETAILS I am not young but not old either with patient and gods help I going to accomplish this ...is free only the hard work I can get tires any where my regards and god bless from PUERTO RICO!!!
I want to see videos! Rob and I are closer to 70 than 60.
@@blissfulacresoffgridhomest2098 I am 55 but my mind is 30 year old when I get sterte with this that is preety soon I will be in contact :))))
@@2965perico please do! So happy to meet you new friend!
U have yucca plant in ur area
Hi we do have Yucca, and other prickly sharp pokey plants.
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Hi! Thank you for stopping by!
Amei a explicação. Mais gostaria de saber como está hoje. Continua firme?
Hi! Still going strong. So many projects so little time!