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Living out in the wide open spaces and having 40 acres causes one to accumulate
implements for road maintainance and cut the weeds etc. They need a place
to be protected from the elements. So we are building an agriculture building
or in other words a BARN!But it must look like everything else around here
so it's another dome! |
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Designers conceptual drawing
of how it should set compared to
the rest of the domes. |
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Footprint as compared to the existing domes. |
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Lets start digging to make room
for the 8th dome! |
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We had to clear some earth for the dome
to fit in the area and needles to say we
ran into a BIG problem right away! |
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Little by little we were able to break the rock up! |
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That left us with a big pile of rocks
even after we used a bunch for a
decorative edge around our cistern.
These are so cool! Lots of crystals imbedded
in them makes them great decorations. |
Here is some close ups of the crystal formations. Check them out! |
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Now that the rock is cleared we can start the footing.
Thanks to Stan a friend and neighbor we where
able to dig out the footing. |
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Having a hill on one side and the inside of the
dome on the other I followed the backhoe
around with my bobcat picking up the dirt. |
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We will just add the dirt to the already
growing pile of dirt. There is a second one also.
Its amazing how much dirt you pile up! |
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Around Stan goes!
Almost finished. |
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The rough footing is done.
Now we just have to clean up the inside edge |
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We cut a trough wide enough to fit the
footing and a French drain. |