What's up Steemians! @armadillocreek challenged me in the #diyragtag challenge that is put on by @aunt-deb, so I'm going to give it a shot!
Here are the rules for the contest:
Choose 3 items each from the Resources and Tools lists.
Explain how you built your virtual project.
Pass the challenge along to someone else so we can swap as many ideas as possible. Who knows, they just may have the solution you need to a pesky problem or a suggestion that fits your situation like a glove!
Use #diyragtag so we can find your post.
AVAILABLE RAGTAG RESOURCES - Pick Three
Two Plastic 50 Gallon Barrels
Six 8' Lengths of 2' x 4' Lumber
Six 8' Lengths of 1/2" PVC Pipe
One 4' x 50' Roll of Chicken Wire
TOOLS - Pick Three
Hammer ~ Saw ~ Drill ~ Shovel ~ Cart ~ Tin Snips ~ Wedge
Trowel ~ Rake ~ Post Hole Digger
Your choice on power or hand tools.
Fasteners are freebies.
I clarified that lime and concrete are fasteners with @aunt-deb before i started construction on this project that being said lets get to work!
I think that will hold off telling you what it is that I built until the end. Lets see if you can guess what it is!
This is what I chose to use two plastic 55 gal drums, six 8' 2x4s, one 4'x50' roll of chicken wire.
A shoven, a pare of tin snips and a drill.
Lets prepare our materials.
Save all eggshells for a year.
Put egg shells in cast iron dutch oven, place in the fire box every night over night all winter, empty into a 55 gal drum every morning and every night refill with egg shells.
Add in 10 gal of water into the barrel with the cooked eggeshells. This will cause a thermochemical reaction so stand back and wath as the cold shells and water start to boil and break down. Congratulations you just made your own calcium hydroxide lime!
Cut the tops pf the barrels off. And cut the barrels along their length. Unroll themflat. this give us a flat 3'x6'3"plastic sheets.
Cut two 3x4s into 4 foot sections
Dig a square trench with the shovel 2 foot down and 4 foot long on each side.
Cut two 16 foot long 4 foot wide pieces of chicken wire with the tin snips. The remaining 18 foot should be cut into for 4 foot sections with 2 foot remaining.
Roll the 4 foor sections of wire .
Concrete being a fastener is a freeby so lets use a bunch of it. Into the trench pour one foot of concrete place at each corner an uncut 2x4x8 post standing in the concrete between each post halfway submerge the rolled chicken wire. Once cured use the drill to screw the 4 foot long 2x4s to the top and the plastic sheets ontop of them overlapping 6 inches in the center
Wrap the posts with the 16' long chicken wire starting 8 inches above the concrete, secure eoth screws. Pour another foot of concrete and let cure.
Along one post cut a 5 foot slit into the chicken wire, then cutalong the top and bottom of the slit awa from the post level woth the ground. Roll the chicken wire away from the post as tightly as you can. Last step mix the lime you made with water and plaster the chicken wire from bottom to top along all sides
Did you guess what you built by this point? Its a room!!!!
Thank you @armadillocreek for inviting me to do this and thank you @aunt-deb for the challenge.
Wow, construction AND chemistry! Dare I say....
AWESOME!!
Love the dual use of the barrels, too! That qualifies as re-recycling in my book. Well done!!
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I love challenges! This one was fun. Honestly if you told me no to the lime and concrete i would have done a composter/ tumbeler. Its not as fun. Another one i though about doing was a wash machine, but that would be taxing the limits is the lateral strength of pvc
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That's the aspect of the challenge that I like the most - so many projects can be made out of the same materials, just put together in different ways.
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