Building a Primitive Hut with only Natural Materials: the foundation (new beginnings part 8)

For thousands of years small homes were built of natural materials that were locally sourced. After spending a lot of time exploring this area and identifying many useful natural resources I decided to start building my new hut. I chose a location that is surrounded on three sides by vegetation so that my hut will blend in well with the surroundings and remain hidden. Strong sticks are for digging and broken stones for cutting willow branches. Yucca leaves turn into rope and a nearby clay source will be my concrete substitute. Follow along as I take you through the detailed step-by-step process of building this maya style hut.

This is the eighth installment of a new series exploring this topic of "New Beginnings".

Learn my humble beginnings in my book: https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0DD9ZJ519

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Key moments:
00:00 Clearing the land to build on
03:24 Drinking raw water from the stream
04:43 Making stone cutting tools
05:01 Cutting down willow branches
06:46 Clearing topsoil and stones
09:15 Digging a hole and dropping a post
10:21 Fire hardening post ends on rainy day
12:31 Cutting down more willow branches
13:51 Setting posts for four corners of the hut
18:28 Gathering yucca leaves
19:44 Turning yucca leaves into strong rope
21:43 Using clay to anchor the posts
25:11 Notching and setting the first horizontal beam

Music credit:
Drums of the Deep by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/