The kiln from last video
Moving the bricks out of the way to build a shelter over the work space
Bricks, pot and brickmold
Hammering in stakes to define a 3 x 3 floor plan
Digging a moat around the floor for drainage
Throwing soil onto the floor space to raise it above the moat
The slope is now roughly level and ready to build on
Fetching stone axe from brick hut
Cutting timber for hut
posts for the hut
Starting post holes
Enlarging post holes with longer stake
Posts in
Lawyer cane for lashing timber
Splitting cane to tie with
Making a simple tripod ladder to climb up where it's to high to reach
Lashing on steps to stand on
Lashing beams to posts
Attaching ridge poles onto corners
Tying ridge poles to a point to form apex of pyramid
Attaching rafters to frame
The next rafters they are tied first then draped over the ridgepoles
Smaller rafters are attached
Cane is tied on to form the edge of the roof that the first thatch rests on
Then the last rafters are added as these sit on the cane line
Finished frame
Cutting alexander palm fronds, 1850 fronds will be needed
Splitting fronds
100 split fronds
Collecting vine to tie on fronds
Tying on vine
First layer of thatch added
The next layer rests on the first, overlapping it so as to shed rain.
The ladder is used when the thatching gets too high
The ladder is shifted around the hut to reach different areas
It took a week to do all the thatching
The apex is difficult to thatch from the inside
So a roof cap is made on the ground and lifted into position later
A frame is made from left over cane by kinking the cane into a square
Then two pieces of cane kinked in the middle are added to form a pyramid
Thatch is added to the cap
The cap is then looped onto the end of a long pole with cane and lifted into position
It was a bit wonky so I adjusted it with the pole from the inside
It turned out easier to climb the ladder and adjust it from the inside
The finished brick workshop
Digging clay to make bricks from nearby creek bank
25 pots of clay to make 50 bricks
Wetting the clay
Brick mold and trough are put into hut
Trough is filled with water to clean mold, helping bricks slide out easier
Sand is collected
And is laid onto the floor to stop bricks sticking to it
Brick making process
Making 51 bricks
This part took about 30 minutes having all the materials ready before hand
Building the kiln in the center of the hut
The center of the hut is the highest distance to the roof minimizing fire risk. The flames don't really come out much higher than the top of the kiln during use
I'm using the old kiln design of kiln rather than the one from last video because it is easier to stoke. It uses 100 bricks as opposed to 74.
The bricks of the ware chamber are set on their sides because they're less likely to crack from load bearing
Finished brick kiln
Stakes are hammered into the ground to form a need wood stack (75 x 75 x 100 cm volume)
The bricks are turned to dry faster
The rain came and tested the hut
The bricks were protected from dissolving while waiting to be fired
The wood was also kept dry
I didn't get a chance to fire the bricks in this video but at least I now have a workspace to make bricks regardless of weather conditions