A poor video of me putting light clay wood chips in the wall

I know I need to work on my video technique, but I was also working at the time and it is hard to pay attention to both where the camera is pointed and what you are doing while slopping mud.  I just wanted to show what it is like using light clay wood chip.  From the video you can see that the clay isn't too light.  It definitely isn't cob, but we found that if we didn't have enough clay in the mix, the small wood chips wouldn't stick together very well.  The first few batches we did had about the same recipe as light clay straw, but with wood chips replacing the straw.  The results of those first batches were unsatisfactory and the walls started flaking off wood chips when they were rubbed.  With more clay in the mix, it makes it less insulative, it has  more thermal mass, and it is much stronger.

First blog video

Here is the first video on this blog. It is a long video about the shed and how far we have gotten on it so far.

A view of the loft from the ladder. We still need to add the second layer and insulate the loft.

Looking in the front door

Looking toward the north west corner. One piece of plywood is being used as a form for the light clay wood chips

The rocket stove wasn't drawing correctly, so i dismantled it .  I'll rebuild it, but I'll follow the directions in the book more carefully this time.

The south east corner where a permanent ladder will eventually go.

The north side where we are putting in the light clay wood chips.  You can see the plywood forms above the scaffollding

wood chips filled up to the top of the pallets

looking down the pallets. You can see the electrical wire in the first row of pallets and then the second row is the one being filled up right now.

The east side with the forms recently pulled off

The south east corner.  You can see some of the chunks of foam inside the wood chips.  We are using a lot of the foam to help boost the r-value and just as a filler so we don't have to make so much light clay wood chips.  Because I got the foam for free, I'd rather use it than the wood chips, but the wood chips are needed to fill in the gaps and make it all fit together better, plus I don't have enough foam to insulate the whole shed.

The south east corner again