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Two-time Prometheus award-winning hard science fiction author. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005JPPMS6  Learn how to homestead https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093BC3K1T 

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    1. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      2/ > The building industry is not interested in building homes that last yet WoG also criticizes building industry for building concrete and steel buildings (which last forever) Which is it: building industry is averse to long lasting materials, or are they bad for using them?

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    2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      3/ We don't know how long conventionally framed ("platform framing" or "stick building") buildings last, because we've been doing it for a century (before that we did "balloon framing") and there's no inherent lifespan. They don't fall over at 50 year, or 70 or 90 years.

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    3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      4/ There is not a builder alive who is thinking "I'm tempted to build a house that lasts for 400 yrs, but if I do that, I won't get repeat business; I guess I'll just build a house that lasts for 150 years instead so I get to rebuild it when it falls down in <checks notes> 2171

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    4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      5/ buildings, whether timber frame, balloon framed, platform framed, or haybale, die in one of two ways: * torn down to build something new * abandoned or neglected, roof or windows decay, water infiltration rots them from the inside Avoid those, and all buildings last forever

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    5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      6/ As I mentioned earlier, no one who builds strawbale homes builds the homes JUST out of straw. Straw compresses and a pure strawbale home will get shorter every year, the plaster will crack and fall off, the windows will shatter, and the doors will jam.

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    6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Wrath Of Gnon

      7/ Look at the first post in WoG's thread: > Take strawbales: a great material. Termites won't touch it ok, so straw good, wood bad, I guess? now take a look at the second post in the thread. Pay close attention to the materialshttps://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1412994356265422856 …

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      Wrath Of Gnon @wrathofgnon
      ...even begin to insure something that for all practical purposes seems to last forever? The building industry won't touch it: how do you make a profit from stacking baled hay, rushes, prairie grass or whatever happens to grow nearby? You don't. pic.twitter.com/rDgevNrJp2
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    7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      8/ THAT IS A "PLATFORM FRAMED" / "STICK BUILT" HOUSE! It is built out of wood! Why are strawbale homes good, according to WoG? Bc termites won't touch it. so ... what's the OTHER 50% of the house here built out of? Wood. Which termites eat.

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    8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      9/ In fact, to my eye, this "straw bale" house seems to have MORE wood in it than a conventionally framed home. Meaning that it's MORE susceptible to termites. This house is using strawbales for insulation. OK, fine. But it's just a normal house with offbeat insulation.

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    9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      10/ What, if anything, makes straw a good insulation? "it's R100, because it's so thick!" ok, so that's a statement about how THICK it is. You can layer in expanded foam, fiberglass or other insulation that thick if you want.

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    10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      11/ "It's NATURAL !!!" Fiberglass is made out of sand. It's just as natural as hay. "It's LOCAL !!!" sand is local too. But, even if fiberglass is shipped from 1,000 miles away ... who cares? Is there something inherently wrong with shipping things 1,000 miles?

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      ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

      12/ "using straw is good because it's recycling something" as if straw that isn't used for construction is thrown into volcanoes or shot into space. Straw (stubble from wheat fields after the seeds have been harvested to create flour) is used for animal bedding, landscaping

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        2. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          13/ and ... wait for it... insulation! Yes, straw is one common input to the creation of blown-in cellulose insulation. So WoG's stance is "everyone is too dumb to use straw for insulation [ except for the entire conventional building industry which uses straw as insulation ]"

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        3. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          14/ Kind of crazy when you think about it, that the industry prefers to take straw, grind it up, apply FIREPROOFING and ANTI-RODENT treatments to it, deliver it to job sites in a convenient form and install it using hoses rather than <checks notes> shipping it on flat bed trucks

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        4. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          15/ ...hand fit it into position, "sew" the bales to each other use giant needles made out of rebar, use chainsaws to trim the bales to length, and then hope that no rats or insects get in to the material that rats and insects love as a building material, and hope it never burns

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        5. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Adam

          16/ exactly I stacked 6 straw bales in my barn 4 weeks ago. Two weeks ago I noticed that the strings on two of them had been eaten through. Kicked the bale, rats ran out. TWO WEEKS it took rats to colonize it.https://twitter.com/Adam_Asmus/status/1413867084669464585 …

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          Adam @Adam_Asmus
          Replying to @MorlockP
          You know what really likes straw bales? Rodents.
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        6. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

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          17/ this ecological argument is tempting, but bad and wrong. I explain in depth in my homesteading books https://www.amazon.com/Escape-City-1-Travis-Corcoran/dp/B093BC3K1T … https://twitter.com/sandrewdunn/status/1413868398153502720 …

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        7. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted EnochPowell

          18/ I love the aesthetics of rammed earth, but it only makes sense in ultra-dry climates. ...to the degree that it makes sense at all. The problem w various "alternative" building techniques is that they are ULTRA high labor.https://twitter.com/MogTheUrbanite/status/1413868786814382082 …

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          EnochPowell @MogTheUrbanite
          Replying to @MorlockP
          On a related note, I'd love to hear your opinion on rammed earth or rammed earth with concrete admixture construction.
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        8. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          19/ If you're interested in alternative building technologies, I have the 1st edition of this now out-of-print book.https://www.amazon.com/Alternative-Housebuilding-Michael-McClintock/dp/0943822394/ …

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        9. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          20/ If you're interested in actually getting your hands dirty and learn how to BUILD alternative houses, I recommend the classes by yestermorrow in Vermont. I lived in a tent for a week while taking classes there, and helped build a timber frame house https://yestermorrow.org/learn/courses/timber-framing …

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        10. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          21/ I am not saying that alternative building techniques are terrible and should never be used. They have different pros and cons. For MOST people, the cons drastically outweight the pros. You can see that this is true by noting that people, when spending their own money >>>

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        11. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          22/ 99.99% of the time don't use these alternative techniques. (but sometimes they do! "pole building" is one alternative technique, and farmers use it all the time ... for barns and outbuildings ...but never for their houses. Hmm...almost as if they Know Things...)

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        12. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted

          23/ yes.jpg https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1413870099170267140 …

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        13. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          24/ The problem I have w WoG is that the posts have more in common with female instagram vacation photos than they do with masculine domains that deal with reality. It's looks and mood, back filled with hand waving and third hand talking points, and no reality.

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        14. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          25/ Read 30 books on home building. Set up some concrete forms. Tie rebar. Screed concrete. Anchor sill plates to a foundation. Frame a wall. Tilt it into position. Carry the joists up, toe-nail them in. Carry plywood up, lay the roof. Nail it down.

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        15. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          26/ Carry a few thousand pounds of asphalt shingles two stories up an extension ladder, one 70 lb bundle at a time, one one shoulder. Nail a few "squares" (100 square foot exposed area) of roofing down. Don't forget the flashing Install an electrical subpanel. Run water pipe

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        16. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          27/ Re-route a cast iron sewer line...by hand. Dig a new trench for it, with pick and shovel. Install a French drain. Apply asphalt water proofing with a brush to the outside of a foundation. Hang drywall. Do trim finish carpentry. Get a tile saw, and lay tile.

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        17. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          28/ Take a timber framing class. Sharpen chisels and hand planes. Help carry 500 lb timbers. Knock the mortises and tenons together by hand using a massive hammer "persuader" made from a log. Tie ropes to the bents and pull them into position.

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        18. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          29/ I've done all of this, and more. I've helped build conventional houses, and I've helped build an alternative (timberframe) house. Get some callouses. Get some splinters. THEN I will listen to your opinions on this stuff.

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        19. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Matt

          30/ 🔥https://twitter.com/AngryFoodie2015/status/1413871594221580292 …

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          Matt @AngryFoodie2015
          Good thread taking down one of the most aggressively disingenuous trad accounts on here. WoG understands building processes/materials so poorly that I suspect he couldn't build a fence that would stand 10 years. https://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1413862918660235266 …
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        20. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Justin Thyme

          31/ TY! Stick building optimized for industrial scale. It's almost free to cut a tree into 2x4s and then the 2x4s are easy to move. Timberframe requires much less sawing, more hand work. Results are beautiful. I like TF, would use it in this scenariohttps://twitter.com/looking5452/status/1413879869000323076 …

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          Justin Thyme @looking5452
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Beautiful thread. Since you're experienced, a quick question: If one person is building a home from their own timber—milling, drying, and some light machinery for lifting—would you recommend a timber frame or platform/stick?
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        21. ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs‏ @MorlockP 10 Jul 2021

          ⓘ Dogs don't have thumbs Retweeted Justin Thyme

          32/ this sounds like a long and fascinating and ultra rewarding path! best of luck to you; you're going to love and (hate ! :) every day of it, and no other project will be as rewarding or make you as proud when you're done.https://twitter.com/looking5452/status/1413882611487870976 …

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          Justin Thyme @looking5452
          Replying to @MorlockP
          Thank you much for your reply! I had a feeling that was the case, synthesized from both the history and current state of building. I'm soon to embark on a decade(s?) long journey to build a small compound for my family—by myself—thanks to your inspiration and wonderful books!
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