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What’s in store for 2010

Welcome! I hope you’ll follow along as I continue to build my first cob house. Please consider subscribing to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Winter is the time for planning for the year ahead, and there’s a number of building-related projects in the works for 2010.

Making a custom tractor tire skylight

You may remember reading about how I stumbled upon a perfectly sized tractor tire that I decided to use for the frame of my skylight atop my reciprocal roof. Well, I finally installed the actual skylight to the tractor tire frame a couple of weeks ago with the help of my friend Tamar. Read ahead [...]

Making a tractor tire skylight frame

A few nights ago, a flash of brilliance struck during a conversation after dinner about making a frame for a future skylight in my reciprocal roof. We were sitting around, thinking of alternatives to making a wood frame, which would have proved quite difficult considering the irregular nature (14 uneven round poles) of the top [...]