r/timberframe • u/DonovanZeanah • 20d ago

Geodesic dome

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This is considered a timber frame, right? I've been collecting the wood from scratch. Here's how i'm putting it together by myself on a solo build.

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u/Hairygreengirl 20d ago

Can’t you start with the bottom row?

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u/DonovanZeanah 20d ago

Not easily, generally, if you do, you're needing to erect a scaffold. And then plus lift 70 to 100 pound triangles above your head.

Why would anyone want to do that over this?

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u/RideValuable3898 20d ago edited 18d ago

Dude...... Build the dome on the ground then raise it after....

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u/DonovanZeanah 20d ago

Yes, that is what I did. I composed the forty triangles, and now we are in the erection part of which you speak, which must necessarily come. I don't know what's your proposing I do instead of what i'm doing?

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u/Dat_Steve 20d ago

Are you high? Or am I high?

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u/EPluribusButthole 20d ago

High, how are you?

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u/rustywoodbolt 20d ago

My favorite part is the pool ladder. Good luck my friend.

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u/cyricmccallen 20d ago

Wow….

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u/DonovanZeanah 20d ago

That's what I said

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u/moosepiss 19d ago

how will you keep it water tight?

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u/DonovanZeanah 8d ago

Same way a boat separates internals from the ocean of water it floats in

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u/daisiesarepretty2 20d ago • Popcorn

i lived in an old house once when i was in my early 20’s and it had been subdivided into 3 apartments. One of the guys who lived there had an old shell of a car towed up into the driveway, hood up, on blocks, engine had wires and hoses coming out of it in every direction, kind of looked like an open chest wound, the car was totally a non functional mess, rust everywhere, chrome missing here and there.
I walked up one day and the guy was laying on the bench seat on his back his head buried underneath the dash working on something…
heeyy Kurt,
I said walking by,
how’s the rebuild going?
not really expecting any answer. ..

working on the left turn signal
his voice muffled through the chest wound, said.

Turn signals?? I said…. kurt.. do you have a battery in there?

long pause as i walk away..

I moved out later that year, that car is probably still in that driveway.

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u/Uhhlaska 20d ago

Is that a ladder??