Dude, you are one with the land. What a great usage of your natural materials and showing how simple concrete can be made on your own. very cool project, Ben!
I made a bunch a cool designs in the dirt last time that I poured some concrete steps.( and added fiber optic star lights ) Whenever anybody pulls it up they are in for a surprise 😮
For a light-weight concrete mix, I'd try using either expanded clay (leca) or extruded polystyrene balls as an aggregate... fantastic project, I really like how the finished bench looks like the sunbleached skeleton of some prehistoric behemoth
I’d love to see you experiment with different materials such as lime, dirt, glass bottles, colorful rocks, etc. for different looks and just the sake of experimenting. It’s a brilliant idea for outside surfaces that’ll last a very long time.
I recently finished a project with concrete (on a much, much smaller scale) and I have to say, this is some impressive concrete work you've done! Looks great! Would be cool to have plants and stuff growing in the cracks between each piece too.
Doesn't matter what material you use. If you want it to last, use a stem frame for the wet mixture to bond to that attaches to ground with or without movement. Never bare materials unless it is rock.
Well now you gotta have an equally awesome fire pit design once you start populating the section with that theme. I'd make it linear somehow instead of round
Family, concrete requires the use of small stone (aggregate) for strength. What you've made is cament, which is not appropriate for large pours because it will inevitably crack
Use a reciprocating saw without a blade as a vibrator for your forms. Also melamine sprayed with vegetable oil (pam) cooking spray is a good form release
With deserts full of it, one can easily be fooled into thinking that sand is an almost infinite resource. However, desert sand has little use; the grains are too smooth and fine to bind together, so it is not suitable for the making of for instance concrete. watch "Can You Use Any Sand To Make Concrete?" th-cam.com/video/yH-UkOl6_SM/w-d-xo.html
Really cool 👏. I wouldn’t change a thing about the bench. But I do feel you need a puka shell necklace would really pull your look together. No pressure. Just think about it
I absolutely love this. I’d add some sort of pole nearby and mount a bird feeder on it. What a fantastic place to have morning coffee or an evening drink that would be.
Honestly if you are going for a dividing wall, especially for cars/humans keep the weight. I’ve witnessed a car going through a brick knee wall right into the front of a store only going about 25-30mph.
Maybe the table could resemble a giant "dinosaur tooth". Possibly cast in one of the big buckets with rope handles. A bit of dirt in the bottom could provide the shape for the table top.
Because of thermal mass, it would mitigate temperature changes on hot days and cold nights. Though... it can get pretty hot even then in direct sunlight.
These are wonderful! Really inspired and fun. This is a fantastic way to showcase the technique. Thank you! I can definitely cosign the flower idea, but I would also suggest selecting for sent. There are aromatic plants which are pleasant when you brush or crush them just like they used to have clover or mint or thyme etc. in monasteries monks used to have beds of chamomile, literally raised beds of chamomile, growing in them, which anxious patients would lie upon to benefit from their calming aroma.
@@HomeMadeModern I must respectfully disagree. What you used is blown vinyl. Linoleum is a very different material. Your content has educational value so, to conflate the two is not only incorrect but is misleading to your audience.
this looks awesome, well done! Im amazed at the use of dirt to form concrete in this and many other videos, honestly with curves dirt is such a smart move.
@@HomeMadeModern haha, that comment was meant for another video, not sure how that happened…. Great vids tho, all the best for the hotel project. Wish i could see it in real world but I’m in the UK
I love rammed earth houses! a lot of challenges depending on climate and can be expensive to get the structural engineering done compared to typical construction
@@HomeMadeModern In Canada we have to put ridged insulation in the middle for thermal bridging. Engineering here is reasonable because it's becoming more common now.
Maybe pin footing to stabilize from settling into the ground over time? I've not done the math, though I've been lately wondering about how the performance of using rebar is compared to the sch10 or whatever pipe used.
@@HomeMadeModern As pins for pin footing? I was meaning more for supporting beneath like the Diamond or Handi-pier designs for example. Those use pipes and I've been wondering about structurally can rebar be used instead and what differences in the loadings occur?
Super dig this!! I wish it fit our yards aesthetic... However, I will be thinking of a way to use this type of earth mold process to build something that DOES fit in here. As always, great video!!
I really like that you just dive in and experiment with new ways to make and design stuff with whatever is available, in this case dirt. Those lounge chairs will stick around for 100's of years. Hats off for the ingenuity Ben. Love to see how the hotel project will form over the next many videos ❤️❤️
Very cool stuff; a very artistic idea and process. I love it. Are these pieces going to be all over your new yard? Would epoxy adhere to and between the concrete pieces? Maybe blue and green and maybe formed into a side table. Would that be lighter in weight and easier to clean?
good call! Linoleum was originally made from linseed oil and pine rosin and that product name got used for all flexible sheet flooring even when it switched to vinyl. thank you for the tip!
4:18 Do those pieces of rebar look like they have spots of rust forming or is it just me? I could be wrong here, but from what I understand any pre rust on rebar is no bueno to put into fresh concrete
good question! concrete is porous so it comes down to how close the surface the steel is relative to the moisture cycles in that environment. I typically don't have issues if the concrete covers the steel by more than 1.5 inches
a tiny bit of rust is recommended on rebar, it helps the steel grip the concrete better. The rust itself isn't actually a problem, it's basically just another inert mineral... the formation of rust is the problem because the metal expands as it oxidizes.
I took a 1 day earth building class, then I took pieces of what I learned and did a small test project then I made this! testing and experimenting allows me to advance ideas without stressing to hard or endlessly researching
really cool project, loved the rammed earth approach! it would be cool to come up with a back rest that can slide into the gap between the two bone sections that you could slide in when you want to sit up more and pull out when you want to lie down!
@@HomeMadeModern I have an important question and suggestion. How many floors your concrete - Dirt to form Concrete, can withstand floors? Ideas to make strong foundation for 3 floors? (Note: Ideas I need to DIY my house to get at least up to 3 floors. Also, I'm just new to these stuff, so it's probably going to affect my life with it. It's going to be helpful for me.) Using Limestone to form a Concrete? (Note: This is both suggestion and a question.)
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Dude, you are one with the land. What a great usage of your natural materials and showing how simple concrete can be made on your own. very cool project, Ben!
turning into an old hippy! it is nice though to think of the land as a free raw material. Miss you Brad!
I made a bunch a cool designs in the dirt last time that I poured some concrete steps.( and added fiber optic star lights ) Whenever anybody pulls it up they are in for a surprise 😮
super cool!
Cool! 😊
You have some very resourceful designs, as an architect who also builds things I appreciate that. Very nice!
This looks great! Might also work well for use on the baja/sun shelf of a pool.
Definitely! I need to make 4 lounges for the shelf in the pool
For a light-weight concrete mix, I'd try using either expanded clay (leca) or extruded polystyrene balls as an aggregate... fantastic project, I really like how the finished bench looks like the sunbleached skeleton of some prehistoric behemoth
thanks for the suggestion
Very cool method. The application to make LARGE scale items are very intriguing. You have me thinking with this one
yes! sculpt in the land then bring in a truck of concrete!
Very cool .... would there be a concern with scorpions and snakes between the blocks .... could be a distraction to morning meditation. :)
snakes possibly but would be easy to see them scorpions are pretty rare in my experience and I have only seen them places that have a lot of moisture
I’d love to see you experiment with different materials such as lime, dirt, glass bottles, colorful rocks, etc. for different looks and just the sake of experimenting. It’s a brilliant idea for outside surfaces that’ll last a very long time.
you are in luck! I have been collecting bottles for the last year!
I didn't realize you were going to have rounded over joints. Makes for a perfect multi piece chair.
Great art! tHanks for the video
I recently finished a project with concrete (on a much, much smaller scale) and I have to say, this is some impressive concrete work you've done! Looks great! Would be cool to have plants and stuff growing in the cracks between each piece too.
Great to hear!
Doesn't matter what material you use. If you want it to last, use a stem frame for the wet mixture to bond to that attaches to ground with or without movement. Never bare materials unless it is rock.
Yes. It's gonna just wash away
Well now you gotta have an equally awesome fire pit design once you start populating the section with that theme.
I'd make it linear somehow instead of round
This is really cool Ben! The design is so versatile I could see this in a high-end resort or just a regular backyard poolside.
thank you for being so supportive!
Voice over sounds really good in this one
thanks! Shane has been helping with that
Family, concrete requires the use of small stone (aggregate) for strength. What you've made is cament, which is not appropriate for large pours because it will inevitably crack
Use a reciprocating saw without a blade as a vibrator for your forms. Also melamine sprayed with vegetable oil (pam) cooking spray is a good form release
With deserts full of it, one can easily be fooled into thinking that sand is an almost infinite resource. However, desert sand has little use; the grains are too smooth and fine to bind together, so it is not suitable for the making of for instance concrete.
watch "Can You Use Any Sand To Make Concrete?" th-cam.com/video/yH-UkOl6_SM/w-d-xo.html
Really gets to the origins of modernism. Rather Corbusian, we’ll done.
This is most awesome
thank you!
since your so hardcore, why not cultivate the dirt? kinda like proniotica but for plants i guess
Interesting, but the idea of a scorpion crawling out of one of those cracks would terrify me.
Looks like Ben is channeling his inner Russel Brand with the beard and toque. Great video...such a great vision.
lol my ears were cold!!!
Don't use rebar..... go with a GFRC method and go hollow
mix cement with the earth, compact as you have and damp down , its called fortified earth.
I might try to make one for my kid who is only a meter tall…which might end up light enough for me to move.
A large garden center paver would make a decent place to set your drink and speakers in the short term for under $10.
Really cool 👏. I wouldn’t change a thing about the bench. But I do feel you need a puka shell necklace would really pull your look together. No pressure. Just think about it
lol ok!
Basically how they made all those megalithic polygonal blocks back in the day
you have to make 2 more of these and a round-ish block, and arrange them in the shape of a theropod foot!
I too could make this if I had some dirt! :(
need dirt!
I absolutely love this. I’d add some sort of pole nearby and mount a bird feeder on it. What a fantastic place to have morning coffee or an evening drink that would be.
That's a great idea!
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we need an excavator!
Need this for buying land just use it for this then build in it later lol
Yo your back yard is an entire desert 🏜
Wow cool yard dude
Hey bro im going to tag you
This is fantastic! I would love to see what you could do with aircrete cores skimmed with the self-leveling concrete! Subscribed!
Honestly if you are going for a dividing wall, especially for cars/humans keep the weight. I’ve witnessed a car going through a brick knee wall right into the front of a store only going about 25-30mph.
true
2:59 my brain can't process that image
That's your back yard, where do you live area 51?
Joshua tree CA, I am building my new house and workshop on this piece
@@HomeMadeModern congratulations 👏
Another Banger! Low effort and maximum effect.
Appreciate it!
Good idea and jobs guys
thank you!
Maybe the table could resemble a giant "dinosaur tooth". Possibly cast in one of the big buckets with rope handles. A bit of dirt in the bottom could provide the shape for the table top.
giant molars!
Really like this project! As always, great job.
Thank you! Cheers!
Very nice. Will give this a try.
Because of thermal mass, it would mitigate temperature changes on hot days and cold nights. Though... it can get pretty hot even then in direct sunlight.
yes!
Nice boney foot bench!
These are wonderful! Really inspired and fun. This is a fantastic way to showcase the technique. Thank you!
I can definitely cosign the flower idea, but I would also suggest selecting for sent. There are aromatic plants which are pleasant when you brush or crush them just like they used to have clover or mint or thyme etc. in monasteries monks used to have beds of chamomile, literally raised beds of chamomile, growing in them, which anxious patients would lie upon to benefit from their calming aroma.
Linoleum is not a synthetic material. It's made from all natural parts.
Still, that's a super nice project. It looks amazing in this desert setting
yes orgininally it was linseed oil and pine rosin like an OG bio plastic but now it seems the term stuck to any flexible sheet plastic
@@HomeMadeModern
I must respectfully disagree. What you used is blown vinyl. Linoleum is a very different material. Your content has educational value so, to conflate the two is not only incorrect but is misleading to your audience.
Thats how they built the " Pyramids " 👍
great job dude ...✌️
Cool project, definitely will try making these
Have fun!
Great work🎉🎉🎉
Very very cool. Would love to use that cement chair and a pair of binoculars to look at the stars at night. Great video !!
You gave me a good idea how to make an octagonal or hexagonal concrete hot tub I want to make a wood fired hot tub created in concrete triangles
working on a hot tub idea!
this looks awesome, well done! Im amazed at the use of dirt to form concrete in this and many other videos, honestly with curves dirt is such a smart move.
That came out awesome! I love it.
thank you David!
Also can you make a glass bottle and concrete wall using the cut bottle ends together as bricks within the concrete?
Misleading title. You sure are using a lot of wood to form this concrete with dirt
there is dirt and concrete but next time I will try DIRT+CONCRETE+MELAMINE+2X6s+PLYWOOD+SCREWS+POLYCRYLIC+WATER
Wow real life minecraft looks like a great workout and also takes foreverrrrr.
about 8 hours and a workout similar to a rowing machine
How, was not expecting that result! Looks great!
Is that Yucca Mesa?
Well this is new to me. Pretty dang cool if u ask me
new to me too!
Man, unbelievably creative. What a brilliant and beautiful result.
Very cool idea!!
Inspirational.
Dude, for getting access to the wall u can loosen the nuts, pivit and lay the rad onto the floor and then lock the nuts back up.
what?
@@HomeMadeModern haha, that comment was meant for another video, not sure how that happened…. Great vids tho, all the best for the hotel project. Wish i could see it in real world but I’m in the UK
What’s the point????? You used Portland Cement.
I wanted a concrete lounge chair was the point
@@HomeMadeModern - yeah well you got a Portland Cement chair.
you would dig rammed earth houses if you don't already know of them that is.
I love rammed earth houses! a lot of challenges depending on climate and can be expensive to get the structural engineering done compared to typical construction
@@HomeMadeModern In Canada we have to put ridged insulation in the middle for thermal bridging. Engineering here is reasonable because it's becoming more common now.
You may want to look at making these with "AirCrete" . It'll cut the weight by 60% or so while still being very durable.
yes but haven't figured out how to get a texture I like with aircrete yet. every experiment I try comes out like a rough cinderblock
Nice!
Flintstone's furniture= soo freakin cool Ben. Hoping all is well, Dirty Jersey out!!
totally flintstones!
Looks great! Can’t wait to see the progress!
You and me both!
Maybe pin footing to stabilize from settling into the ground over time? I've not done the math, though I've been lately wondering about how the performance of using rebar is compared to the sch10 or whatever pipe used.
I used 3/8" rebar
@@HomeMadeModern As pins for pin footing? I was meaning more for supporting beneath like the Diamond or Handi-pier designs for example. Those use pipes and I've been wondering about structurally can rebar be used instead and what differences in the loadings occur?
Love this idea so cool 😎💯✅
Thank you! 😊
Super dig this!! I wish it fit our yards aesthetic... However, I will be thinking of a way to use this type of earth mold process to build something that DOES fit in here.
As always, great video!!
Go for it!
Great for stargazing!!
yes!
You've have a tamper, I would love to see you do some dry cast/dry tamp creations!
Coming soon!
The result is amazing... maybe if you put a big hole in the middle (following the shape) they would look like bones even more
my next video will be a similar design but formed with plywood with holes like that.
You should make them with aircrete!
@@keithmarlowe5569 I am in the same boat. Aircrete is on my list of projects ;-). I haven’t actually used it yet.
have not been able to get the surface smooth on that
I really like that you just dive in and experiment with new ways to make and design stuff with whatever is available, in this case dirt. Those lounge chairs will stick around for 100's of years. Hats off for the ingenuity Ben. Love to see how the hotel project will form over the next many videos ❤️❤️
Thank you very much! just having fun and working with what I got!
Love this design man. I bet it would look cool with some outdoor LEDs in the recessed areas. You could plant some cacti or Joshua trees behind it too.
Cool idea
Very cool stuff; a very artistic idea and process. I love it. Are these pieces going to be all over your new yard? Would epoxy adhere to and between the concrete pieces? Maybe blue and green and maybe formed into a side table. Would that be lighter in weight and easier to clean?
yes it would by would probably crack if the heavy pieces shifted so only advisable on a firm concrete patio
Very cool. You could just use rammed earth as it is and build in situ.
smart! I was thinking the same that's why I saved the other pieces of plywood!
This is great. Could even be used as outdoor art installations.
Good thing you leveled the ground :-) Turned out real cool.
Yes, if I was making multiple I would probably level a piece of plywood first then keep packing the same mold in the same place
Linoleum is an organic product, vinyl is not.
good call! Linoleum was originally made from linseed oil and pine rosin and that product name got used for all flexible sheet flooring even when it switched to vinyl. thank you for the tip!
turned out much better than I was expecting!
same!
This is my favorite thing you've ever made.
def my favorite process
4:18 Do those pieces of rebar look like they have spots of rust forming or is it just me? I could be wrong here, but from what I understand any pre rust on rebar is no bueno to put into fresh concrete
good question! concrete is porous so it comes down to how close the surface the steel is relative to the moisture cycles in that environment. I typically don't have issues if the concrete covers the steel by more than 1.5 inches
a tiny bit of rust is recommended on rebar, it helps the steel grip the concrete better. The rust itself isn't actually a problem, it's basically just another inert mineral... the formation of rust is the problem because the metal expands as it oxidizes.
brilliant
thank you!
Love it, Ben.
How do you come up with this? Amazing design, well built, Ben!
I took a 1 day earth building class, then I took pieces of what I learned and did a small test project then I made this! testing and experimenting allows me to advance ideas without stressing to hard or endlessly researching
@@HomeMadeModern this design came out awesome, really looked like some parts of a dinosaur's skeleton!
Dope
thanks!
Dope!!! Super resourceful! 👍🙂
Thanks! 👍
Geniuuus!
thank you! just working with the land!
really cool project, loved the rammed earth approach! it would be cool to come up with a back rest that can slide into the gap between the two bone sections that you could slide in when you want to sit up more and pull out when you want to lie down!
Cool idea!
Really cool idea
Glad you think so!
@@HomeMadeModern I have an important question and suggestion.
How many floors your concrete - Dirt to form Concrete, can withstand floors?
Ideas to make strong foundation for 3 floors?
(Note: Ideas I need to DIY my house to get at least up to 3 floors. Also, I'm just new to these stuff, so it's probably going to affect my life with it. It's going to be helpful for me.)
Using Limestone to form a Concrete?
(Note: This is both suggestion and a question.)
Very clever, nice form, and nice idea
Thank you! Cheers!
this lounche chair is hype - can't wait to see more of this technique from you! i love how natural it looks from the get go
Yay, thank you!
super rad!
thank you!
The chair is so cool!
thank you!