Solar Village 2010
William and I have been hashing out the details of construction for the coming year. Our plan is at this wiki page and further details on techniques to be used are here. We are currently planning on a CEB-straw bale hybrid – a double CEB brick wall...
Dedicated Project Visits Continued
William Cleaver will be joining us at Factor e Farm on May 1 for a Dedicated Project Visit. He’s coming from across the big pond – from the United Kingdom – and we are planning for a 3 month stay. William is not a novice to creative...
Sawmill Developments
Work on the open source sawmill is moving forward. I’ve been using Blender to visualize the sawmill in 3D, in order to help in the design phase: We’re getting ready to start building. What’s in it for you? The sawmill proposal at the...
Sawmill Concept Update
The sawmill project has undergone some changes in design since the last concept. I have taken over development, and based on a comment on the previous concept we decided to pursue a different design, a dimensional sawmill. A dimensional sawmill is one...
Sawmill Project Manager Recruited
Here’s a ChipIn for the Sawmill Project. We have added a third project manager to the OSE team, Robert Todd. Bob has been with us at Factor e Farm since July, on and off. He decided to stay for the winter, committing more deeply to our project....
