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@davidpotter3777
5 жыл бұрын
Looks like a lot of fun!God bless you and your family Aloha
@KweKanata
5 жыл бұрын
Birch bark is waterproof. That’s what we use up in New Brunswick, Canada. And use reed as your interior layer and stuff it with moss between. Your floor should be a layer of stone so it would hold the heat of your fire. That’s how we Mi’kmaq do it.
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for adding your knowledge/experience. I hope to see and experience a more authentic/natural/traditional wigwam and the people who live in it someday.
@joewoodchuck3824
5 жыл бұрын
Very cool. Show us using it in cold weather, preferably during a snow storm.
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
I agree, it would have been best to film during the winter, with snow falling, and the RMH running.
@derekemrich2253
5 жыл бұрын
Thinking of doing the exact same, Im glad someone else did it first lol
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
It worked out well; I encourage you to give it a go!
@cindyturpitz3256
5 жыл бұрын
Greetings from germany
@kurtbaier6122
5 жыл бұрын
Cool idea
@doriantomas
5 жыл бұрын
nice project. i reckon that if you would have a small window to open a bit opposite to the door, you could prevent the mildew.
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks; good advice, too. It was a relatively wet & humid site (the only option I had), and an unusually wet & humid summer. I've read that indigenous-wigwam-dwellers would change the covering seasonally to promote airflow: varying bark and reed/cattail mats and lifting up the sides. Ideally, I would have built it in a clearing with full east to south to west sunlight on a raised mound of sandy soil.
@eileenmaschal9505
5 жыл бұрын
Wish I could have seen more of the build...it looks so interesting...had to strain to hear you...the music was drowning out your voice or my iPad is too old.
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
I published a new version without the 'music' here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/zI1juJigkJ9lhKA
@infopackrat
4 жыл бұрын
That thing is awesome! First insulated shelter I've seen on KZitem. I do get the feeling the design was rushed. If you had to do it again. What would you change?
@TomTommyTom
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for saying! It definitely was rushed, I didn't get the opportunity to start until mid November and I moved in before the heater was ready because of a night that dropped to -22°F (the insulated dome alone over the earth kept it from going below +30°F inside that night!). If I had had more time, one thing I would have done is dig out where the combustion chamber is to make it 2-3 feet lower, so the cook surface wouldn't be so high, and as a general rule - the lower the heat source the better. Also, more time may have allowed me to find a dryer site.
@geraldinegregory.1803
4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting video, but the music was awful. Distracting, loud, irritating and overwhelmed a lot of what was being explained. Why? No need for horrible jazzy noise when you want to concentrate on the excellent shelter and look inside. You did a real good job there!
@TomTommyTom
4 жыл бұрын
Please notice my pinned comment above that directs to the improved version. I'm hoping that that one rises above this one when searched.
@PromasterHOF
5 жыл бұрын
Lost me when you said you had electricity from your landlords house. Did she let you run cable for a TV
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
I used it to provide lighting when I was finishing the structure that December, and then continued having it for convenience, and charging my phone. I could have been a 'purist', but that wasn't my intent.
@erniet9935
5 жыл бұрын
That noise you think is music is terribly annoying...Cut it out, this is not a music video!
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
I invite you to consider not being so crass. Let's be friendly!
@abefrohman1759
5 жыл бұрын
Did you use it again this winter?
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
I did not; I moved on to other pursuits. It's in fine shape, so I could have used it again.
@stephenstanley79
4 жыл бұрын
nice idea but cant listen to you with the background music. thanks for sharing.
@KP11520
5 жыл бұрын
Straw would be exponentially better as insulation vs dry leaves.
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
Leaves were on-site in abundance, straw was not. Yes, I bought some materials of this structure, but when a free and local resource was available, I preferred that.
@michaelsmith3322
5 жыл бұрын
Music is horrible- but very cool concept
@TomTommyTom
5 жыл бұрын
I published a new version without the 'music' here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/zI1juJigkJ9lhKA
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