Yurt

Big tools in the background! I would love to see some photos inside one of your completed yurts. These are very popular on the Oregon Coast.

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Fantastic! You make the house and the furniture. I have seen kits, but kudos for you for designing and manufacturing your own. – Special kudos for producing your own material. Thanks for posting.

-- John

I will see about posting more photos. My work shop is a twenty foot yurt with table saw, planer, shapers, band saw, glueing table, tools, lumber and more in it. Another is just starage.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.info

I have a 16 foot yurt that we use as a guest house. I love the space inside. Your site looks very competitive and interesting.
Glad to see a yurt here.
Christina

TreeBone, it a great Yurt. Wonderful to see this post, it might just be our first Yurt posting. Thanks for joining our Jocks group also.

Now I am going to bring myself up on Yurt construction and terminology.

-- Carpe Lignum; Tornare Lignum (Seize the wood, to Turn the wood)

Hey there, Ron. I built a Yurt that my family uses for camping in the summer and have been looking at replacing the roof ring. Your solution is brilliantly simple. Nice! It looks like you have nailed the ends to the ring. Is that correct? If so, it wouldn’t work for us (as we have to take the thing down to transport it and store it) but is great when it will be stationary for long term… What do you use to hold the lattice together?

I’m going to have to consider this as a workshop option. Seems like it might get around the building permit and accompanying assessment increase if the outbuilding is actually a tent! And even with canvas, this is much less expensive than standard construction…

Hmmmm.

-- Rookster, (http://www.robertkarl.org/woodworkingblog/)

Looks like a very involved operation you’ve got there. Does your friend’s Yurt have a canvas? Ten years?

-- Jesus is Lord!

So that’s a yurt! Wow. Looks complicated. Nice!

-- You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. (Plato)

this is just totally cool. I would enjoy living in a Yurt, if it was a little bigger, had a/c, bathroom, separate bedrooms, etc. Not for me mind you, but for the others in the family. I don’t really even need much of a kitchen, just a sink and microwave, and I’m good, but the wife wants a huge, monstrous kitchen with lots of cabinets and counter space (been promising to finish it for 5.5 years now).

Maybe several yurts joined together would work. It would help me with my “eccentric and creative” image that I work so hard on. I saw a tv program a few years back about a woman that lived in one alone in Arizona for a year, it was a cool program.

I’m glad you posted this, gives me something to ponder to today. What are the price ranges for something like this?

Rookster: if you want to send your Yurt to me, we will set it up on our property permanently, and then you can come and camp here in the Kansas Flinthills and you won’t have to worry about transporting it anymore. Of course, you would have to deal with the odd folks that live on the property (us). Actually, I’m the only odd one, the kids and wife are normal.

thanks,
Mark

-- Mark DeCou - American Contemporary Craft Artisan - www.decoustudio.com

this is wonderful. I can’t wait to see more!!!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Maybe Mark would rent it out to the visitors that come to visit him.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Now there is an idea Karson. When Mark starts offering classes, he will need some place for the students. A yurt or two will offer the right space for the guests.

Mark, I like the idea of several yurts strung together. You could lay them out in a circular pattern, with the kitchen yurt in the middle. Small halls could connect the yurts together, and when done it would look like a large wagon wheel.

Nice job TreeBones. I am almost expecting to see some of the Buckmaster Fuller dome houses from you next.

-- Bill, Turlock California, http://www.brookswoodworks.com

A great project !

-- -** You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream ****************** Dick, & Barb Cain, Hibbing, MN. http://www.woodcarvingillustrated.com/gallery/member.php?uid=3627&protype=1

Great project!Nice workmanship too!
We have several at Parks on the Oregon coast that rent out for about $18-$24 a nite depending on size etc..Some have kitchenettes and showers,barbecues,and TVs…...they all have heat and power and decks.They are a nice change from tent camping or hauling a trailer.

-- If I can do it, so can you. www.artboxesbyandy.com

coolness!

-- I think of Jack Nicholson as the Joker in Batman when he says "Where does he get those wonderful toys" and ask WHERE DO U GUYS GET ALL THAT WONDERFUL WOOD?