Mujaan: The Craftsman (of Yurts)

If you are interested in DIY yurt building and you can go the $19.95 for purchasing a DVD, checkout Mujaan (The Craftsman) at www.greenplanetfilms.org and/or checkout a bit at You Tube.

Bruce Sargent
forloveofyurts.com

Physics of Yurt Walls

What I have noted in constructing yurt walls is that when the assembled wall is erected, placed in a circle and attached to the door frame, an extremely interesting event occurs: individual wall rods behave like an archer's bow, especially if straight rods are used rather then steam bent rods. Imagine a straight piece of wood bent around and imaginary cylinder, and now imagine the straight piece of wood at a diagonal being bent around a cylinder like a yurt wall rod and you will get that each piece of wood is being bent like an archer's bow. The wood attempts to straighten under tension and gives strength to the wall. How this all interacts with the vector forces of the roof resting on the wall heads, I've not worked out yet. Maybe someone is or knows a physicist or engineer who might contribute to understanding this interaction. Please feel free to comment or find a friend who can comment on this curious fact about yurts, especially those Mongolian yurts built with straight wall rods.

Bruce Sargent
ForLoveofYurts.com

Laurel Nest Yurts: NC Source Near Asheville

A North Carolina source for yurts near Asheville has a beautiful website, displaying beautiful yurts made by beautiful people. Visit them and share them freely.




For Love of Yurts: helping you get a yurt home!

Colorado Yurts Builds the Ultimate Backcountry Shelter

Colorado Yurts has built the ultimate backcountry shelter called the Winter Stout Alpine Yurt. Check out Stout's slide show at

http://www.coloradoyurt.com/yurts/yurt_stout_alpine/index.php

It is well worth the visit.

Snow loads can challenge yurt constructions. A cubic foot of snow weighs 10 pounds. In the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, snow can reach a depth of 5 feet on a yurt roof. On my 16 foot yurt that could come to 6 or 7 tons of weight. Stout's engineering takes snow load to even greater extremes and looks to me to be good for it.

Stout's center metal ring support reminds me of a Mongolian bagana or a "tree of life" that supports the roof ring and opens to the "eye of God." The center treatment is clearly functional, designed to hold many tons of snow, and is beautiful as well as functional. Bravo, Colorado Yurt Company! You make yurts with heart and courage. You are clearly expanding your product line into shelters for extreme conditions and for the people who thrive in them. I would love to see one of your Alpine Yurts at the top of Vermont's Bromley Mountain Ski Resort to greet backcountry skiers, boarders and hikers on their return.

Bruce W Sargent
http://www.forloveofyurts.com

Two More Stores to Carry FOR LOVE OF YURTS

Two more stores will carry For Love of Yurts: Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000.

Hunger Mountain Co-op is now carrying the book in its wellness department.

623 Stone Cutters Way
Montpelier, VT 05602

(802) 223-8000

www.hungermountain.com

LACE will carry the book as of December 2nd in the Art Gallery
Local Agricultural Community Exchage
159 Main Street
Barre, VT
(802)-476-4276.
www.lacevt.org

Bruce W Sargent
http://www.forloveofyurts.com

For Love of Yurts: Bookstores and Web sources

For Love of Yurts: Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000 is now available at
Bear Pond Books
77 Main St
Montpelier, VT 05602-2931
(802) 229-0774

Northshire Bookstore

4869 Main St
Manchester Center, VT 05255

(802) 362-2200

www.northshire.com

The Book Garden
50 State St
Montpelier, VT 05602-2957
(802) 223-2824


at http://www.amazon.com,

as well as at http://www.forloveofyurts.com

For Love of Yurts in Seven Days

Seven Days, Burlington VT Newspaper

Gutenberg Redux, Part II: Vermont Gets Another Espresso Book Machine

State of the Arts

By Kirk Kardashian [11.18.09]

Reported this week on the publishing process behind For Love of Yurts, Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000. The experience of working with the Northshire Bookstore and Debbi Wraga of Shires Press has been fantastic for me.
Kirk reported:
All of that appealed to Bruce Sargent, 66, a retired teacher from Montpelier who wrote a book about how to build a yurt for less than $1000. At first, he considered using a printer in China, but then a friend urged him to go local. He Googled “print books Vermont” and found the Northshire. “I just smiled inside,” he says, “because I know the owners of the bookstore, and their integrity is incredible.” Sargent’s book came out a few weeks ago and is available on his website, at Amazon.com and at Northshire. He’s sold about 15 copies so far (at $19.95 for the paperback; $12.95 for the electronic version), which he believes is a good start. “It’s really fun selling books in your sleep,” he notes.
Doing business with people of integrity makes doing business easy, in the sense that one is able to trust and not constantly worry and check up on the process to get things done.

For Love of Yurts Featured on Tiny House Blog

For Love of Yurts has been featured on Tiny House Blog this past week. Check them out at http://tinyhouseblog.com/ They have many wonderful articles on sustainable and essential shelter.

Ebook Availability of FOR LOVE OF YURTS

For Love of Yurts: Building an Ultra Simple Yurt Home for Under a $1000 is now available electronically at Scribd's store and at Amazon as a Kindle book at $12.95. The book is also available as a PDF file at www.forloveofyurts.com at the same number. Consider green reading. Save the money along with saving the trees.

For Love of Yurts is at Amazon,com (Sort of)

For Love of Yurts is at Amazon.com, sort of. At Amazon.com searching for "Bruce W Sargent" and for "For Love of Yurts" goes to the book. However, searching for "Yurts" doesn't. What's with that?
The book is available at Shires Press by putting "For Love of Yurts" in the search window and at my website www.forloveof yurts.com.

www.forloveofyurts.com goes live! again!

Thanks to Aaron Handford, and Floating World Web Design, the website www.forloveofyurts.com, is again up and running. Check it out!

www.forloveofyurts.com is down :(

My website, www.forloveofyurts.com is down. It seems to be working for Mac's but not PC's.
Those wishing a paperback book can obtain one from the printer/publisher Shires Press . Those wishing an ebook will have to wait for Aaron Handford at Floatingworld Web Hosting to work his magic.