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Yurt Calculator
- michaelsmanley 3y agoI'm so glad there are still sites like this.
- extrememacaroni 3y agoLegends say Genghis Khan's horses were trained to be so fast because they were also used to transport bytes to and from such sites, to calculate their yurts.
- spiznnx 3y agoThis site could be an excel spreadsheet running on a laptop in a saddle bag!
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- cypherpunks01 3y agoSee also, Desert Domes for their highly useful Dome Calculators and related dome formulas, material & assembly tips, and other resources for all your geodesic dome needs: http://www.desertdomes.com/domecalc.html http://www.desertdomes.com/domecalc.html
- teddyh 3y agoFrom that link: > Go see Benny and the elves for some Electroluminescent wire to decorate your dome! What. Let’s see the Photo Galleries. Ah, eight groups of photos – five from Burning Man and three from Mardi Gras. I see.
- mikepurvis 3y agoYeah that's more glamping than an earnest discussion about long term occupancy considerations.
- einpoklum 3y agoSo, what keeps the Yurt from planar movement? Is it anchored via stakes somehow?
- capableweb 3y agoFrom the website: > While living in the yurt experienced 2-3 strong storms, at my site up to 120km/h I would estimate. I'm kind of a slow learner at first as I had to fix and fasten the yurt while the storm was underway as I often hoped the ropes I used were sufficient, and experienced they were not. > It's worth noticing, the storms affects the roof mostly, no impact to the wall as I noticed, me using 90° lattice angle and bamboo, with stretching the rain wall cover below the floor and use one rope on that height, almost on the ground, all around to fasten it (as seen on a photo above already). Some people put some small laths on the floor to fixate the lattice wall on the floor, or screw the door frame on the floor, both which I didn't do. https://simplydifferently.org/Yurt_Notes?page=6#Storm%20Preparation https://simplydifferently.org/Yurt_Notes?page=6#Storm%20Prep... Seems to be fastened somehow, but it's not specified how.
- culi 3y ago> up to 120km/h I would estimate That's the bottom end of the windspeed of an F1 (weakest grade) tornado. I have no doubt the architecture of choice of people's who lived in the steppe regions of Central Asia, a place where extreme winds are pretty common, would obviously need to be able to handle these winds but it still feels hard to believe that an amateur yurt builder could get one able to withstand a weak tornado on their first build...
- capableweb 3y agoThe structure seems to be ideal for withstanding winds, the winds would go around the building as it's round rather than rectangular. Seems professionally built yurts commonly can withstand ~220km/h or more, so I don't think it would super farfetched that a amateur built one could withstand half of that.
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- jcadam 3y agoSometimes I wonder if it wouldn't be better to buy some cheap land and throw up a yurt (or maybe a Quonset hut if you're more fancy), rather than take on a 30-year mortgage.
- jollyllama 3y agoThe problem is finding a place where they won't nail you with building codes, zoning or other ordinances, etc.
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- Scoundreller 3y agoQuite often the places with cheap land are also the ones that don’t have building codes.
- jcadam 3y agoUp here in Alaska, land can be had very cheap (but construction costs are high), particularly if you don't care to be on the road system.
- diversionfactor 3y agoWhere can I find this cheap land? When I check online zillow, or via Alaskan state land auctions, the price of building lots even without road access in the deep interior is more than that of a suburb in Texas!
- mbrameld 3y agohttps://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/landsales/parcels/details/470-1433 https://dnr.alaska.gov/mlw/landsales/parcels/details/470-143... seems pretty cheap to me at about $4,200 per acre. A quick search of building lots in San Marcos, TX as an example shows prices are around $200,000 per acre, or about 50 times higher than the land in Alaska: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/San-Marcos_TX/type-land https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/San-Marcos... Can you share the lots you were looking at?
- meebob 3y agoThis website fills me with nostalgia! I used it many years ago to make a tiny 8ft yurt, which was a fun little project. Putting up a yurt is really satisfying- the way the lattice walls flex is very cool, and seeing the way tension works across the structure is fun.
- culi 3y agoFrom the Wikipedia page: > Yurts take between 30 minutes and 3 hours to set up or take down, and are generally used by between five and 15 people.
- mshockwave 3y agoI wonder if there is any military application of using Yurts-alike tents, considering them being more resilient to extreme weather yet easy to set up and take down.
- ent 3y agoI'm not sure of other militaries but the Finnish army indeed uses very yurt-like tents, "puolijoukkueteltta"[0]. [0] https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puolijoukkueteltta https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puolijoukkueteltta
- possiblelion 3y agoYes, same tents in Sweden and Estonia as well. Mainly used in the winter, with a stove in the middle, which gives it rigidity.
- Jolter 3y agoMilitaries in various countries already use simple canvas tents when in the field. I don’t see how switching to a similar-looking yurt setup would be an improvement.
- nicenewtemp84 3y agoMany militaries, including the US, use rectangular tents. Yurts are round. The entire point is the shape difference potentially being better for wind. This is why chatgpt is going to take over..
- Jolter 3y agoI don’t know the first thing about the US army, but several others have this figured out already. I’m Swedish and our tents have been round for … well I don’t know how long.
- asimpleusecase 3y agoI lived in Mongolia for a year and got to stay a couple days in real yurts. The round wall directs wind around the structure and local people hang a heavy weight from the center of the yurt to give it resistance to the lifting force of the wind. They are cool in the summer with the bottom edge of canvas rolled up to allow airflow. ( but also mosquitoes)and warm in the winter when a layer of thick wool felt is layered over the whole structure and covered with canvas. In the centre is a stove that can burn wood or dried animal dung. They are very spacious. You can tell the time by the sun shadow on the floor via the smoke hole in the centre. BTW if you enter a yurt and in Mongolia don’t step on the door still it is rude. If you sleep over don’t be shocked when members of the family take off clothes to change. Modesty is the responsibility of the viewer.
- pritambaral 3y ago> BTW if you enter a yurt and in Mongolia don’t step on the door still it is rude. I'm sorry, one is expected to step on the door still? Here in South East Asia that'd be considered rude.
- tantalor 3y agoWhat's a door still?
- fsckboy 3y agoa door sill is the threshold of the door (like windowsill), but I'm not sure he meant it like that at all
- motrm 3y agoI think he could indeed be right, I was curious about that too and came across this page[0] about Mongolian gers (aka yurt) which includes the following etiquette guidelines: - When approaching a Mongolian ger it is customary to say, “Nokhoigo Khorioroi” which means “Hold the dog,” even if you don’t see a dog. This is because guard dogs are common and a dog may be aggressive towards visitors, but it in general alerts the occupants to your presence so they can come out and greet you. - Never knock on a ger door. It is considered rude. You simply enter. - When entering a Mongolian ger, step with your right foot first and never stand on the threshold. The threshold is said to be the “neck” of the ger and standing on it tantamount to “strangling” the home. - Mongolians don't chat to each other over the threshold. Step in rather than asking things through the doorway. - To greet your hosts say, “Sain bain uu?” (pronounced “Sey-Ben-Oo”) – meaning “how do you do?” If you are entering for the second, third, fourth time, you can just say “Sen-ooo”, meaning “Hi!”. Today we both learned :) [0] https://notesofnomads.com/mongolian-gers/#Ger_etiquette_The_Do%E2%80%99s_and_Don%E2%80%99ts_of_Entering_a_Ger https://notesofnomads.com/mongolian-gers/#Ger_etiquette_The_...
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