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#61036 - 02/25/06 04:27 PM Nifty shelter idea
ironraven Offline
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http://www.monkeyc.org/dome/index.html

These could be prepacked, stored flat. They say three-four hours to build the big one, but is that the full build. Precut, maybe an hour?
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#61037 - 02/25/06 05:53 PM Re: Nifty shelter idea
Susan Offline
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What a great idea! In bad weather, you could just toss a tarp over it and anchor the bottom, if you didn't have time to paint it.

Guest house for inlaws, too.

Sue

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#61038 - 02/25/06 08:11 PM Re: Nifty shelter idea
brian Offline
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I dont know about using it as a survival shelter but I agree with Susan that it seems like a great place to stick unwanted house guests for sure. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
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#61039 - 02/25/06 08:34 PM Re: Nifty shelter idea
Chris Kavanaugh Offline
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Ugh! The late writer Edward Abbey likened Buckmiester Fuller's creation to so many fungal spores. This is reminiscent of all those Whole Earth catalogs from the 60s: Most of who's readers are now driving Volvos and worrying about their kid's industrial music tastes and Goth wardrobes. I am RECYCLING my cardboard and putting the proceeds in a big old pickle jar towards a traditional Yurt, with romanian kelims, samovar and my SMLE leaning against a sack of beans and rice. I attended the early Burning Man's. I much prefer coyotes and desert hermits stopping by on burros like some B.Traven novel <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />


Edited by Chris Kavanaugh (02/25/06 08:37 PM)

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#61040 - 02/26/06 05:13 AM Re: Nifty shelter idea
ironraven Offline
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No doubt about it, Chris, it is refried 70s tech. BUT, they should hold up as well as they are made, and while they aren't a bug out shelter, I see them as a bug IN one.

Quake or storm, if your roof or walls are damamged, you are sleeping outside. This could be made and partially assembled, and you've got something a bit harder than a tent stored.
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#61041 - 02/26/06 07:33 AM Re: Nifty shelter idea
Chris Kavanaugh Offline
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After the Northridge earthquake many people, especially immigrants from other quakeprone lands stayed out of their homes in tents for many days. The irony is the only urban experts in such emergency shelters use them daily; the homeless and poor <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" /> I have my eye out for a doublewide refridgerator box in that heavy stuff.

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