Lance, I really suggest for what you are looking for (scrounged materials, broken supply lines, ect ...) That you look not to the mobil homes of the Mongol, but the mobil homes of the Inuit. Outfitting folks with pre-assembled material, even from painters tarps and bedsheets, for the outside skin, it should be fairly easy to scrounge the poles, even if you have to tape/tie together the appropriate lengths, to produce a tipi. Having just done a test run, a reinforced mylr/plastic "cloth" folded down well in a napsack, with enough space for other supplies, and we scrounged poles along out trip. (Although, once we found several good ones, we tended to keep them, carrying them between two of us, with our stuff suspended on them. It made a number of things easier.). The test run was very much a sucess. It is not playa worthy (too much air exchange) but it stood up to heat, rain, and a fire inside without much problem at all.
Good luck on your continued search, Percival On 7/29/09, Lance Culp <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Thomas, > > Thanks so much for your reply. > I dearly wish I could visit you people. But given my work situation, that’s > not possible. So thank goodness for this fine forum. By the way, what does > AEZ stand for? > > It is clear from what you have written that the traditional yurt has given a > good account of itself under very severe conditions. Were the traditional > yurts you are referencing made from scratch or where they built from kits? > I’m inferring that they were totally homebuilt. > > And can you give us some feel for the cost of building the traditional > yurts? Was a lot of the material “scrounged”? I would love to hear more > details. > > The ongoing discussions about building the hexayurts for this year’s Burning > Man event suggests to me that procuring the necessary materials for that > kind of yurt isn’t as easy as we might hope. I can only guess what might > happen to supply lines in the event of major emergency. Would the situation > be better or worse for those trying to build traditional yurts? That is one > of the things I’m trying to determine. > > Thanks again, > Lance > > >> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 08:26:30 -0700 >> Subject: [hexayurt] Re: Technologies to try in the Hexayurt >> From: [email protected] >> To: [email protected] >> >> >> On Jul 17, 11:07 pm, Lance Culp <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I’m curious to know if you people have taken traditional yurts to >> > Burning Man. And if you have, how did the traditional yurt perform? >> >> We in the AEZ had a few yurts in the past. With walls made of diagonal >> "fence" stakes, then putting cloth over them to create a windproof >> wall. Same on the roof. Some of us even used reflective materials on >> the outside. Those yurts were relatively cool as well. The more >> airtight they were the better, it seemed to me. Plus, they look much >> nicer usually on both out- and inside compared to hexayurts (you can >> decorate a cloth wall much easier than the typical hexayurt walls). >> >> Come visit the AEZ this year to have a look. There's actually a tour >> through the village every morning (10am, I think) from tuesday on. >> >> > > > _________________________________________________________________ > NEW mobile Hotmail. Optimized for YOUR phone. Click here. > http://windowslive.com/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_CS_MB_new_hotmail_072009 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hexayurt" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hexayurt?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
