There are two reasons to consider using the polypropylene high strength pulling twine instead of 14 gauge wire for making the blocks. First is because the twine is so much easier to work with than the wire. No special tools are required and it is less physically demanding. The second reason is the cost. The… Continue Reading
Zac Crain did what he does best; he knocked one out of the park with this story.… Continue Reading
Ilona Berger was at Haiti Communitere during the building of the Ubuntublox house in their compound. She sent us this short clip of collecting and cleaning some of the plastic trash that was used to build the Ubuntublox house. … Continue Reading
The original Ubuntu-blox was made with all kinds of plastic trash into a block with a two wire restraining feature. We realized that a third wire was needed in the middle between the two outside wires and modified the machine and process to accommodate that concept. We made the blocks then with all kinds of… Continue Reading
I took the truck to Pearson Stone and we weighed the front axle weight. 6,800 pounds. That means 3,400 pounds per front wheel weight. I went to the shop and put the front of the truck up on wood blocks. Then I jacked up one wheel and placed a ten pound plastic block under the… Continue Reading
We don’t have access to an academics lab to do testing on the blocks. So I did the next best thing… Click on the “more” for photos and more dialog.. As you can see, the block was distorted in our redneck/red truck compression test. This is a redneck’s red truck that weighs fifteen thousand pounds or so just… Continue Reading
After the camera fiasco the other day we finally found another camera. This after noon I made another block and feel we have the one we want now. It isn’t perfect and will still need some tweeking to make it work better. But it is at a point where others can copy it and start… Continue Reading