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A traditional Mongolian yurt. Hopefully, my yurt will come out looking like this when I'm all finished!
I found a guy on craigslist who was giving away a bunch of 2"x2"x12ft pieces of redwood. He took apart a gigantic deck awning, and salvaged the redwood pieces. Most people who do this charge for the wood because it is pretty valuable, even used! Redwood has a lot of tanin compound in it naturally, which gives it a high resistance to rot and resistance to insects. Thats actually why redwood trees live for thousands of years. Anyways, I picked up about 20 pieces of the 2"x2"x12ft sections, and I am keeping them to make the roof rafters. Since I have so many, I will also attempt to make the crown of the yurt out of them as well.
I've also found a good website for learning how to make a yurt: simplydifferently.org. They had a nice picture of how the yurt is set up:
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The way a yurt goes together.
So I've spent the past week beginning to build the crown of the yurt using the salvaged redwood. I bought a power sander off of craigslist, too, and a table saw from Sears. Romy already had a drill press, which came in very handy so far. Here are just a few pictures:
![Yurt Crown Peices](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2572/4054355839_8c1983b39a.jpg)
These are pieces of the crown that I cut out of the 2"x2"s and dowel pinned together. They are drying out after being glued in pairs. After that is dry, I will glue them on fours.
![Half Yurt Crown](http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3168/4054355755_040a9cafe7.jpg)
This is what half of the main structure of the crown looks like. It isn't glued yet, so its a little rickety.
The yurt crown will be 2.5ft in diameter, and it will have cross members across the center, as well as a domed section. It will look something like this, but instead of being circular, it will be a 12-sided polygon, with 36 roof rafters.
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A yurt crown.
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