Progress: Sunflowers, Soil, Goats, Timber, Concrete & Rainwater Dam Filled
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- čas přidán 24. 03. 2024
- Cape Lob Ear goats,
Crop circle, soil building season 3,
Rainwater harvesting into the dam,
Wood delivered far from the point of use (wilderness roads!)
Progress at the earth bag building site,
A new concrete plinth for the chickens
Our desert homestead progress cannot be measured in anything but smiles and goals. We feel successful in every shovel full of dirt, every plank nailed in, every egg laid and eaten & every goat that's born.
The goal is to get near that small, permaculture, self-sufficient cold-turkey point that we have planned for, for so long.
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It is all very interesting, especially now that you are building more of everything as the live stock grows bigger. Well done. Dogs are great foremen.
Lab lab , Pigeon Pea and various Acacia species are your friends😊
They are. Thanks for the comment and visit, William!
Well done. Looks great
Hello Marlon! I have a suggestion for you that is an alternative to pipes. Build gabions out of cattle panels to make box culverts. Overtime, regardless of the diameter of the pipes, They get undermined and eventually wash downstream. The gabion construction I am going to try to explain will give you much greater area for water flow and because it is all wired together into a monolithic structure, it will never move. I believe I remember you saying you had access to a saw mill and larch. Larch planks will span the gabions creating your box culverts.
Step one, build a large flat gabion that will be the foundation for the whole structure and the fill on top. Work with the full length that is available (16') from curb to curb by how many 8' box culverts you feel you need. So the foundation gabion is 16' wide by the length you feel you need by 2' thick.
Then start on one end of the foundation matt with your first gabion, One cattle panel tall by 1/2 cattle panel wide, by 16' long. Wire everything together as you go and use spacer wires to maintain the width of the gabion. Wire it up, fill it up, cap it off and move on to the next gabion. The gabions will be 8' on center so you can work with 2"by 8" by 8' long larch planks on edge to build dock boards (larch planks through bolted into one unit) that will span the gabion opening (8' on center).
I would estimate 4 to 6 box culverts would be adequate. This is a big job.
When everything is assembled, bring you excavator in to make the upstream basin as big as possible and use the spoils to build your road bed on top of the box culverts. The aim is to fill and compact as much material as is available on top of the box culverts for mass to retain any water that is surplus to what the box culverts can pass. Also, to fill as much of the dip in the road as possible.
That is a lot of words. I hope the concept is understandable. All the best! Steve J :)
Very understandable. With the help of a neighbour or two that share that little crossing we can look at things like this very practically now. Your experience and ability to see the problem and solution is very refreshing. 🌞
@@SimpleEarthSelfReliance Thank you my friend! Knowing that other families share the road makes a big difference. As they say - many hands make light work.
We know I'm just guessing about the volume of water and the capacity of a well built roadbed to dam some water if there is a reasonable outlet. So you could build one or two box culverts and try it. Build in an weak point so if it blows, it blows in one spot and does not take the whole roadbed, Because the construction is modular, you could add more box culverts.
The wooden dock plank has proven to be quite successful and long lasting in my region (Pennsylvania). We are much wetter than your environment and these bridges cross streams on low traffic roads. They meet or exceed the life expectancy of cement and rebar. Typically they are constructed of white oak here. But larch is an excellent alternative. Compared to white oak, larch is rare in PA.
Kick the idea around :) The material cost should be a fraction of several sections of 6 foot diameter concrete pipe.
Sorry about expressing everything in inches and feet I imagine it is easier for you to make the conversion and round to what you know to be the standards in your region. 👍
How beautiful.
Looking good keep it up. Sterkte.
Dankie! Waardeer die comment.
Looking good, might be a idea to put in the concrete pipes for the road now. While its dry and not too wet, That way you can rises the level of the road for supplies trucks.
I think you may be right. We are not sure exactly what path or volume the water will be at, so wanted to wait and see; plan and pipe. But I agree with you, if we do it now, we have way more control over the result. Could avoid costing another roundtrip of the TLB.
Think you said you sometimes get flash floods . If that's the case, I'd put a real big pipe in on both sides with gabions to help protect the road. Also maybe a little further up a couple of small wears/ dams to slow the water down before the pipes, which will also hold a bit of water. Anyway keep up the great work you are doing.
@@lesliebrannon2191I lived near a stream that once every 40 to 50 years would go LARGE I suggest large concrete pipe with a smaller pipe beside it at the 1/3 level to help take the stress of the large pipe should you have one of those once in 50 to 250 year rains
Making excellent progress 🔥
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Awe, thanks Mandy. That's so cool. Will think of a way to sort this out.
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