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Earthship Global Model Operation One: Tire Work (Earthship Global Volume How to Build Your Own)
 
 

Earthship Global Model Operation One: Tire Work (Earthship Global Volume How to Build Your Own) [Kindle Edition]

Earthship Biotecture
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March 21, 2011
This booklet is the first in a twelve part series of "how to" operations booklets
on building the Global Model Earthship.

With input from the Earthship crew, this 38 page booklet takes you through, step by step, on the tire work phase of a typical Global Model Earthship. It covers building walls, thermal wrap, vent tubes, cistern installation and front stem walls. Photographs, diagrams and thorough explanations of procedures will guide you through the tire work phase of the building.

This will set you up for the next two phases, Operation 2 - Concrete Work and Operation 3 - Plating (coming soon). After those there will be nine more phases to take you through to the finish of your Global Model Earthship. This is a valuable tool for the owner builder or a professional who wants to get familiar with the building of Earthships.

Look for Operation 2 soon.

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
The global community of Earthship enthusiasts have been holding their breath for the overdue arrival of this eBook from Michael Reynolds. It is the first in a series of `How-to' books designed to tell you what you need to know about building your own Global Model Earthship.

And its been worth the wait.

Its a nice little book with plenty of pictures and descriptive language to give the Earthship novice or conventional builder what they need to know to build their own Earthship. Of course it's fully compatible with the current set of Global Model Earthship plans that Earthship Biotecture currently sell. In this first book titled "Tire Work", it covers the staging and laying out your build, then ground prep, through to the finer points of getting a high quality tyre wall built. Unfortunately for those `metrics' among us, the book refers to everything in US Imperial measurements. There are also a few local terms that might draw strange looks at your local hardware store, but generally speaking with the pictures and commonsense, nothing is beyond our grasp.

By the end of this book, you should have your tyre wall set up, with ventilation tubes and rainwater catchment cisterns in place. The next book to be published will cover the Concrete Work for both the top and bottom of the tyre wall. My only concern is that, given the time its taken to publish the first eBook, will you be waiting years to be able to have all the twelve (yes you read correctly!) guides needed to complete your own Earthship? I certainly hope not for the sake of the reader and the planet.
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Greedy much? April 7, 2012
10.00 for an ebook that is 38 pages long?! and to get all 12 books one has to shell out 120.00?! Ridiculous. Mr. Reynolds is making sure that even considering building an earthship is out of the price range for millions and millions of Americans.
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Worth the money April 14, 2012
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The e-book was worth the money but I would rather pay more money and have the complete work. This only covers the preliminary excavation and construction. I'm eagerly awaiting the rest of the series to be released. I hope it won't be long in coming.
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