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Pacific Domes International - Geodesic Domes

Pacific Domes International - Geodesic Domes

Event Domes - Banquet Dome The Core Home O2 Treehouse Obscura Digital OmegaGarden.com - Omega Gardens™: Industry Leading Hydroponics Designs for Indoor Gardening Event Dome - Donald Trump Dome NYC Build your own Bamboo Domes This is page 95 of "Domebook Two", a book that was published in the 70's and is very hard to find. It was written by Pacific Domes (not the same as Pacific Domes), and I was able to find it at the local library. Bamboo grows fast, is free material for a dome framework. It might be possible to suspend a tent skin or mosquito netting inside, or pull a stretch cloth over the outside and shoot foam. Tools: a pocket knife and string. The following instructions were prepared by R. Dome Assembly The geodesic dome, as shown in the assembly diagrams, contains two different joints: a B joint which occurs at the vertices of all pentagons formed, and an R joint which occurs at all other points. Cutting and Measuring the Members There are only two different lengths of members used in the erection. For a 5/8 dome, 80 B members and 90 R members are required. A line of color can be drawn around the bamboo members at each measuring point. Cross Assembly Cross Tying Stage 1 Assembly Stage 2 Assembly Prop It

GardenPool.org | How we turned an old backyard swimming pool into a self-sufficient garden in a desert city. Home Event Dome / Event Tent Branding Vivos - Underground Shelter Network for Surviving 2012 and Beyond Family Grows Garden in Backyard Swimming Pool When Dennis McClung takes a dip in his backyard swimming pool, it isn't to practice his backstroke or cool off from the hot Arizona sun. It's to tend to the subterranean garden – chock full of vegetables, fish and even chickens – that has become his family's primary source of food. That's right. Instead of spending thousands of dollars fixing up the crumbling swimming pool in their backyard or filling it up with dirt, the McClung family turned the potentially dangerous, run-down pool into their own minifarm in the desert. McClung, 30, said that when he and his wife Danielle first saw their Mesa, Arizona house in 2009, they knew it would be perfect for their young family. It was a corner property catty corner to the elementary school his children would attend, he said. "We loved everything about it except for the pool. When the McClungs first purchased their house, they were told that they would have to repair the run-down swimming pool (shown here) or fill it up with dirt.

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