Folio mark: a rammed earth wall drawn as five compacted lifts between two form boards

Do It Yourself Rammed Earth

Rammed Earth for the Rest of Us

Item 02 · Section A

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When you have to take out a good tree.... lumber.

Stephen Betzen · Thursday, 22 December 2011 · Section A · Rammed Earth build in Dallas, Texas

Some of the negatives of building anything is that there is a footprint. We tried looking as many locations for the building and the one we settled on happens to cover 2 beautiful cedar trees. This location was the best location for future solar and disrupts the property's habitat the least.

IT was great to know that we could find a way to use the wood in the trees. A local business, JD's tree service was able to mill the trees right on our property.

It was sad to see the two trees go, but felt good that they were not going to the dump.

The following is a video I made on the process: