The poles of the 20' Pacific yurt goin into the compression ring
Here I am setting the rafters into the tension cable.
Lew in the foreground was passing me the rafters, the big roll was the wall canvas
rolling the roof material down over the rafters.
The one-day construction crew
I love the radial symmetry of these structures
In the background is the new Pacific Yurt, in the foreground is the footing forms with rebar for the new Oregon Yurt.
Opal inspecting the footing forms. Notice the mound of dirt all around.
Footing from the bedroom area
At the point that the cement truck and pumper are in the driveway, it is too late to change your mind.
They built Rome with this stuff.
Opal and Sahalie checking out the stem wall and the mud mud mud
A shot of the mudsill and pony wall and mid floor support girders. River in the background digging. This has to be one precise foundation.
Here we are setting the first floor section of the new yurt
These floor section are seriously heavy to schlepp around
One of the later floor sections
The wall sections are stood up, toe nailed to the floor and toe nailed at the top.
It just keeps going as Chuck uses a sledge to bang the wall into place. Howard has the ladder and Billy looks on. Note the plans in the foreground.
Getting ready to set another of the window sections
And UP it goes.
It doesn't take too long before it starts to look like a house
Things were getting a little tight and we had to bang the walls down and secure them with nails while pushing.
The key element in the whole structure is the tension cable, tightened by this turnbuckle
Getting the ceiling sections in place
We pushed and held the ceiling panels in place with long 2x4 props. after a while the inside was like a forest, a dangerous forest.
The ceilings rest against these simpson brackets.
The sections had to be bolted together after they were laboriously beaten into place.
With the cedar ceiling unprotected by a roof, visqueen and tarps became our only hope of keeping it dry.
Chuck and Loren maneuvering the compression ring into position while Erick is trying to keep the visqueen from getting underfoot.
From below as we tried to set the steel compression ring. The dimensions of this ring dictates the whole construction process.
This is Jorris, the carpenter installer from Oregon Yurt works setting the roof tension cable.+
We had to push the roof sections up over the scaffolding and onto the ceiling. these things were pretty heavy.
Howard supervises as Tim and Billy and I try to get the section into place.
