14 Courses Finished on our MASSIVE Earthbag Wall

this week on OSRL. The end is in sight as we make some final measurements and build the final earthbag wall of our house. How's it going everyone? Welcome back to the domestead. Now if you're new here my wife and I were building our own home off-grid here in the Arizona desert but if you caught our last video you know we made excellent progress on our massive earthbag wall. Look at this. Wall's even taller than me now. Not that that's hard to do and we're going to continue to make progress on this. We're going to keep on building hopefully get another three courses done but before I do there's something we got to get done. Hey so we are about to head into town it's time to take Yuvia to the vet. I guess there have been a rise in cases of rabies in our area. She was due for a vaccine. Time to get it done. You know she spends a lot of time outside. We want to make sure nothing happens to her so we're going to get her vaccinated. We got to make a trip into town. How do you think she's going to feel about it going to the vet? Well I can't imagine she would be too excited but I don't know. We'll find out. Who knows. We'll find out. Yuvia girl you ready to go to the vet? Now she's gonna hide from us. There she is. Uh-oh there she is. Yuvie you ready to go on a trip? Yuvie come on. Yuvia girl you ready? A little bit of coaxing. Just a little bit. Does she know? Does she know where we're going? I had to tell her. Well we're back. Always an adventure going into town like that but she did a really good job at the vet. The vet was real kind and knew how to do everything and gave her the shots no problem. I think she had fun too. Well now she's protected. I think we got to go back in a year to make sure and then it's like then she's good for three years after that but I want to make sure she doesn't get no rabies right. She wouldn't want her going all Cujo on us. I probably don't have to tell you there's a lot of craziness going on with the world. I think prices could be unpredictable so we kind of want to jump on some of the supplies we need just in case prices do go up. So we're going to put a roof over that wall and I got some of the materials already ready for that. So I went out earlier today and I picked up some more OSB. I got to get this someplace safe and I got some lumber coming too so we'll be utilizing that as well. Once we're done building this wall we're going to put a roof over that right away and make sure that area is protected. So definitely a lot going on. So I got everything unloaded ready to go. I have some more material I got to pick up tomorrow. So definitely a lot to do before we get started on the bags again but we'll be working on the bags pretty soon here. I'm pretty excited about that. We're moving on up on that wall. All right good morning. As you can see I got my 2x10s all ready to go. I'm just going to leave these in the trailer right now just to keep them out of our way because we are going to be starting to build. So now that I got all the supplies I need that's all done. Jess is out running some errands so while she's out I'm going to start preparing dirt and when she gets back she'll knock out the barbed wire and then we'll be ready to roll on the next set of courses. I'm excited. This wall is getting close to being done. Uh-oh you thought you were getting work done today. Uh-oh she's getting you. I was thinking today wasn't supposed to be that windy. I better double check. At least we got a little bit of clouds. All right we're out here busting out another course. Almost done with the middle section here. Once we're done with that we'll be about halfway through. You know it's about uh temperatures are probably in the high 80s but we had a cloud cover roll in. The wind is blowing and for once I'm not complaining about the wind. It actually feels pretty good out here uh even in the with the high 80 temperatures. Really nice for getting this bag work done. You just picking off the dead parts. Oh careful. Is this a dangerous job? Did you go from barbed wire to cactus thorns? I like to live dangerously. Okay as you can see I'm putting in these cleats. Just some kind of scrap plywood and some two by fours and this will give a nice place for when we're putting in the doors later to be able to attach the lumber to. So lumber doesn't attach very well to earth bags but when we put in the cleats it'll give a nice area to kind of screw things into. Well good morning. Well it is a cloudy day. Looks like it's going to be cloudy for uh most of the day which is absolutely fantastic. It is supposed to be in the 80s again but uh you know if we get a cloud cover it is going to be really nice. It's probably about perfect day to get work done around here which is fantastic because there's still quite a bit more to do. Now of course we got barbed wire laid yesterday. We got the uh the middle of the course done which is over half which is nice so we got to do the other half today. Get more barbed wire in and then we'll see what we can get done but you know we're in a race against time for sure. Uh again we're trying to hit that uh we're trying to hit three three courses so we'll see what we can do. All right so we busted it out. We got done course number 12. Very exciting. Jess got up there she got the barbed wire done for those middle bags we did and we're going to go ahead and we're actually going to start laying bags for course number 13. Lucky number 13. So as long as we've got the barbed wire in the middle we're just going to start laying bags. Then she'll do the barbed wire on the north and south bags and then we'll see where we're at if we're going to do any more bags today but uh pretty exciting. We're moving on up. It's getting to be a trek just to get up there We are putting in boards for the final row of shelves for our pantry. This is it final row y'all at least the clouds are back. Feels pretty nice. Last of the barbed wire for the day huh. All right good morning y'all so we are back out here we are going to be knocking out we're going to be finishing up course number 13 then jumping right back into course number 14 and then we are almost done with this wall. It is crazy but uh it's going to be a hot one today with temps uh about 90 degrees so um just got to hang in there sort of pace ourselves but uh we got to get it done. So uh tomorrow is not going to be pleasant either. Temps again about 90 so as much as we can get done today and then just finish things off hopefully we can just finish off course 14 tomorrow and we're golden. A little playtime inside the house huh. All right so we are officially finished with course number 13 lucky number 13 well almost finished technically those two sides have to get tamped yet but we are pushing on with bags and we're going to get half of course 14 done today but right now we're going to put more boards in this section for the shelving and I think that'll be it for the boards right that'll be it. Simple as that. You want as long as I'm up here. Kind of remind me of one of those mountain goats yeah they just hang out on vertical walls like that. I guess you probably should never call your wife a mountain goat. It's not romantic. All righty last two bags. Small bag to finish it up. All right getting the last of the barbed wire up for course number 14. The barbed wire doesn't like me. Hey all done huh or is it huh? All right careful how you sit. All right so earlier today of course we got done with half of course 14 and we are just finishing up prepping to finish the rest of that course. Just got the barbed wire done. I'm working on the dirt right now so we should be ready to go first thing in the morning. We'll knock this out and 14 courses done. That's crazy. Of course I was hoping when we started this that 14 courses was going to be enough to finish this but not quite. We'll still need a few more courses but we should be able to knock those out pretty quick. I'm really excited. All right y'all so we are back at it. Oh my gosh we got half of course 14 done yesterday. All the prep work done yesterday as well so we just got to knock out the north and south side and we are done with the big one four. This wall is almost done. Jess how do you feel about that? I almost kind of wanted to just do the rest of it right away but I think we gotta it's still a decent amount of work. Let's take a little break and then finish it up. Yes yes I gotta hold her back but you want this project to be done. You know it took us a little while to do this right but actually but it also went pretty quick I think. Yeah yeah. Yuvi is spreading the dust around. What are you doing? Yuvi are you digging up our foundation? What are you doing? All right so Jess dropped the last bag. I just got to do some tamping and that's all she wrote. Is that all she wrote? Until the next video. All right now that we're done with the 14 courses I just want to bring the water level out and just kind of check and see how high each of the courses are compared to one another and uh just in case we need to make any adjustments on these last few layers going up. All right I got uh 27 and a half here what do you got? Good excellent. All right that's looking pretty good. All right crazy uh surprisingly close. We're just uh slamming some bags down so that's really nice. So yeah we're looking pretty good as far as the level goes between these bags. Yeah I might have to make a little adjustment here and there once uh once we finally put the covering on but I'm pretty excited. Oh man what an intense few days eh? It's a lot of work but we are getting down to the home stretch. I think we will have this done in the next uh next week. Exciting. Just a few more courses to go. I can taste it. I can taste it. I know you're excited to uh to finally be done with these bags. Yeah so everything's looking good. I'm really happy with how how level things are. Uh these last few courses should go even quicker because we're going to actually stop putting bags on that center row and just focus on the outside to get that up and we should be golden. I'm really excited. And then you know we can go back I can go back to uh the roof and closing this whole thing up. Definitely adventure. Got so much work done. A lot less worries as far as Yuvia is concerned running around here. At least we won't know. At least we know now she won't turn into like a Cujo or anything like that. Did you have any Cujo concerns? Uh always have those concerns. Once you watch the movie Cujo you always have Cujo concerns. Thanks so much for watching. Don't forget to give this video a big thumbs up and you gotta stay tuned for the final build of the wall. It's coming up. All right y'all we'll catch in the next video. You gotta be there. Bye.