sepp holzer root cellar / underground animal shelter

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This is me answering questions from the audience after we just got done watching a Sepp Holzer movie.

Sepp Holzer is able to build one of these root cellars / underground animal shelters in a day. And he builds them so if it starts as an animal shelter it can quickly be converted to a root cellar. And if it starts as a root cellar, it can quickly be converted to an animal shelter.

I have a video that shows a Sepp Holzer animal shelter design used as a pig shelter.

In this video I focus on the use of one of these Sepp Holzer shelters as a shelter for cattle.

In some of the pics you can see the pipes used so the Sepp Holzer shelter can be used as a root cellar.


Relevant threads at permies:
http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/1443_0/green-building/sepp-holzer-...
http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/8908_0/permaculture/root-cellars
http://www.permies.com/permaculture-forums/3514_14/critter-care/were-making-a...
http://www.richsoil.com/sepp-holzer/sepp-holzer-permaculture.jsp

music by Jimmy Pardo

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Sepp Holzer
• shelter
• root cellar
• food
• cattle
• pig
• goat
• eco
• green
• permaculture
• organic
• sustainability
• root
• cellar
• underground

[travishalverson]

Wonder how long it takes to master one of them dirt pusher thingies?

Thanks Paul.

[paulwheaton12]

@travishalverson a few hours. and they are very fun!

[pondman27]

You know, I have been working for the wrong folks for too long. All we need do now is to take the land back from these genocidal corporations that serve the cryptocracy and we can get busy doing what we know is right.

Thanks Paul and keep it up.

[tanyageyer1]

@fightthefuture08 I used to say I was waiting for my own land too, then I decided "I see so many of my friends who don't do anything with their land, because of it being 'too much work' or whatever, so I will ask if they don't mind me taking over, planting things and sharing with them what I learn from the internet about permaculture" Tryin to think outside the box!

[minnesotahillbilly1]

@teddy0072 i believe what Paul was talking about was when the temp outside the shelter was 20 deg below 0, the inside temp with the cows in there would be 40 deg above 0 a difference of 60 deg warmer hope that helped

[sunlit2]

you can do that with a tractor too. we have an old farmall H and use it to push beams into the ground.

[flyingpigstuff]

Awesome fire shelter, could save your life..

[teddy0072]

The cattle will go there when it's 20 below...or 40 below? I didn't quite get the temperature thing when the cattle goes there. What exactly were the numbers in each case?

[civildisorder44]

IF only I had a backhoe.....

[fightthefuture08]

Thanks for making these videos. Keep it up a I've learned so much from you and your friends I can't wait to get my own land