Considering Living In A Yurt?!

I have been having a long talk with my three friends who are doing a project on wanting to buy abit of land and we create our own tribe, we don't like to say community because it just dosen't sound peaceful to us. We live in Mid-Wales so plenty of land about to buy. My three friends have kindly offered me this oppotunity to come an live with them in this little family tribe and live in our own yurt's. And really live the simple life and on organic food. I am a hippie but this is all big change for me as I do live in a house, am looking for work, thinking I do need to live off money when really we all don't. It just seems a big change for me I feel I don't know if I want to live the simple life, not work and live in this tribe or carry on living with my parents learning how to drive, looking for work and spending money on luxeries and stuff. I suppose I am 21 an i'm going through that stage at the moment I don't know what i'm doing or how i'm gonna do it! x

 

Also I hate society an we have to work and waste our life to get by but I don't know what's best to do anymore. I suppose I do need some income some how!

 

My advice, go for it! I have lived in communities and you will need an small income, it will take time and money to set it up and to become self sufficient and anyway, even though I hate this capitalist world we live in, I dont think people who choose alternative lifestyles should be parasites living from the naive masses.
Do you play an instrument? maybe you could busk, or make and sell things on the street, or learn to juggle/ hoop/contact ball (for free from youtube-especially if you dont have a job at the mo) that way you can live the lifestyle you want but still afford what you need?

Also, even though you are planning to start it with friends, I advise to get more people to join, it is important to share ideas and different people can bring new skills to the tribe.

You live once, so live the way you want. you are young and free, maybe if you take a job now and go mainstream, join the rat race you will become consumed by materialism and forget how you feel now.
It may be daunting being new to living without luxuries but soon you will not understand why you botheres with them in the first place. liberate yourself!
if you take this chance it might be the best decision you made.
Good luck and have fun

 

Yeah i'm really looking forward to our plan and we have got a few of us on board with it. No I dont need luxeries the only thing I cant live without is thats music so I will have my CD player hehe. Also I do love watching films so I watch them just on laptop. Dont watch TV anymore.
No I dont play instrument, im sure ill find some way of doing it my friends help me out with alot of advice. Friends that ill be living in yurt with im on about.

 

I prefer Bedouin tents.

 

I just google imagined them they look pretty nice.

 

warm too, though mongolians tend to winter in them less these days, with all those empty russian apartments in ub

though a drier climate shelter than wales - wonder if that matters?

why not go for the celt vernacular, stone houses with thatched roofs?

 

Ye maby. I dunno I quite fancy living in a yurt. Just been chilling at friends yurt tonight was really nice and coasty.

 

Thanks.

 

That sounds wonderful! I'd definitely do it man

 

Yeh im thinking more of a caravan now or campervan.

 

I've never lived in a Yurt but I have lived in Wall tents, tipis, and an old Coleman Cabin style tent. All were made of canvas. I lived in the Coleman for a summer (several months) sometime in 1978 or 1979. I think the tipi living was the best. I stayed with friends in northern Idaho in 1992. A power cord ran out to us for a small TV and a couple of lights. One channel reception out there in Sticksville. We had Star Trek: Next Generation and my old favorite China Beach. A very small fire was all we needed to keep it warm and cozy. I think it was an 18 or 19 footer.

First you need to figure out how large you need it to be. Find a flat piece of ground with plenty of room. Get a brick or large stone and a tape measure. Set the stone or brick on the ground and measure out away from it say 7 or 9 or 10 feet out. Hammer a wood stake into the ground.Make this stake your 12 o'clock position. Repeat at 3, 6, 9, 4, 7, 10, 2, and so on till you have all stakes pounded into ground in a circle. Then, using string or Surveyors tape or twine lay the string on the ground till it wraps all the way around the outside perimeter, connecting the 'DOTS' as it were.Where the 'ends' would meet add 3 feet, this will be your door. At this point you might want to cut the end of the string/tape/twine. Lay this twine out in a straight line with the slack pulled out. Then measure the entire length remembering the extra 3 feet. Just to be on the safe side lay the twine out along the outside perimeter again to check the length all the way around. Then imagine yourself living inside an area that's this size. How much room do you have? Room enuf for how many cots or sleeping racks? Got moving room around room? Room enuf for some firewood or kitchen? Or perhaps it is too much room?? The smaller the Yurt is the easier it is to heat with fire or stove.

OK ITS IMPORTANT 4 ALL OF YOU TO REALIZE I HAVE NO EXPERIENCE WITH YURTS.......... BUT I DO KNOW that the walls of a yurt are like a lattice of thin wood strips. Best way for me to describe it is think of a chain link fence only a bit larger but much, much lighter in weight. The canvas walls are attached to the lattice material.

Everything I ever read about making the roof of a Yurt involved laying poles in like a circle of spokes (like a bicycle wheel). Where poles met in the center they were tied or bolted in some fashion to a metal ring (could be bent CONDUIT/BAMBOO). You might could take an old truck or car wheel cutting out the center around 18 inches. This wheel NEEDS TO BE SUPPORTED SOMEHOW and I have an idea or 2 but B4 I piss off anyone else (another thread NO MAP here) I will leave that to a Yurt Engineer.

At this juncture >>tincture??<< I will take my leave. From the very first time I saw a Mongolian Yurt from 1200BC or whenever they were roaming the world with them I thought now THAT is ONE FINE PORTABLE LIGHTWEIGHT WINNEBAGO RV!!!

As long as I'm here in the TENTING thread I have more thing I want to mention.
Has anyone here ever heard of a Quonset Hut?? They were VERY BIG in WWII for easily and quickly built housing, shops, hangars, hospitals and the like. The shape is basically a half circle. Headroom is no problem and they are actually making a come back in the steel building trade. They make fine shops, garages and hangars and there's actually a cafe about 50 miles east of me on HW20 in the Marblemount area built of steel and let me tell you it is a cool lookin' affair!!!

((Man ohh man I am on DAY4 of the HEAD COLD FROM HELL. I've gone thru a roll of TP in a day and a half just blowin' my nose. My head is all congested...I am sneezin almost constantly, I feel like shit warmed over and it is pretty cotton pickin' miserable to be me here at the Ponderosa. Would someone please.....just shoot me....it would be the merciful thing to do.....after all they shoot horses with broken legs don't they?? And horses are magnificent animals. Right now I am so far from being magnificent it ain't even funny.))

 

No, we have to work because life takes work.

Society just provides a framework to get enough work done.

If you don't drive yet, you should finish learning that. And anything else of that sort.

 

http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-yourself-a-portable-home---a-mongolian-yurt/

 

good, big yurts are just to pricey!
One can build a solid cabin for the cost of!

 

Perhaps CharlieBrown89 should research EVERYTHING HE CAN ABOUT YURTS and then perhaps with a small biz loan go into the Yurt Manufacturing Business. He could call it YURTS R US. (That name will cost you 10% of your gross.)(10% is enuf for The Lord and it's enuf for me)

The rest of my advice is free. Such a bargain!!! Kid I have no idea how old you are but you don't sound very old to me. You should listen to folks who've been around the planet longer than you have.

One of the tricks I learned the hard way was this. Find something you LOVE TO DO then figure out how to make a good living at it and you will NEVER WORK A DAY IN YOUR LIFE AGAIN!!!

I used to be a backhoe operator, pipefitter, dump truck driver, tractor operator, snow plow driver and about 35 other skills I did on a daily or weekly or weather related basis. Then one day my mouth got in the way of my brain and I shot my self in the foot (so to speak). Now I'm going to school again to be a CNA. At 58 I HOPE this is my last career change.

Kid this is something I read that The Duke said..."life is hard, but it's alot harder if you're STUPID".

Don't be stupid kid.

 

Thanks all for your advice. At the mo im very happy with life I am not not working but I am traveling round Uk just doing festivals, meeting new people it's great. Got home yesterday and I want to go off again. Thinking of moving to Bristol or Brighton maby. Get a job then buy a caravan.

 

You should look into small wall tents or a 16' tipi made of white canvas. A tipi even a relatively small 16 footer is plenty big enough for one person. You can stand up in one and move around. Once you learn the correct way to set it up and adjust your smoke flaps a small fire is plenty to keep you toasty and do your cooking. Just make sure yours comes with a liner or fires won't work. You will need ALOT of poles around 19 feet long as well.

Tipi living is super comfy once you're dialed in. Find someone who owns their own tipi and ask questions. A real good bet for authentic Indian teepees can be found through the Rendezvouz/ Mountainman network. Go to a rondy or two. Go online. Good luck.