RE: [BlindHandyMan] Building A House Out of Nothing At All

2007-05-11 Thread William Stephan
Victor: My impression, based on shelters I've seen and biographies etc. I've read, is that people in days of you’re put up and survived with a much higher level of personal discomfort than we do today. Yes they built shelters, but they were mostly crude affairs, and in colder climates would hav

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Building A House Out of Nothing At All

2007-05-11 Thread Dan Rossi
Jewel, I have seen this same series of shows where modern man attempts to recreate ancient icons with the tools available to the proper period of time. Knowledge is useful, but a slave labor force and no regard for their safety, gets you much further than does a few brains. *GRIN* -- Blue s

Re: [BlindHandyMan] Building A House Out of Nothing At All

2007-05-10 Thread Jewel Blanch
I think that it was the BBC that mounted a series in which teams of highly skilled engineers and physical scientists, using nothing but the materials that would have been available at the time, had to figure out and then demonstrate the methods that were probably used to build the wonders of th