Dry-toilet-revolution

So here's some finnish dry-toilet culture for a change!

 This is Ekolet, a finnish invention and the only dry toilet on the market (that I know of) that composts urine at the same time as doodoo.

I had the privilege of installing it to cellar of a big farm house and here's the story about it!

Here is how it works;

It has four separate chambers, like pieces of a pie, except there is empty squeare space of 20cm in the middle.

Everything from the toilets comes down te crap pipes(the brown pipe high in the picture, behind it there is another black one), the poo stays in a chamber and the pee goes trough to the very bottom from where it goes in to a pump(in the front right) and circulates to the top where it drips trough plastic membranes with bacteria coat on them, and the pee changes its form so it stops smelling and becomes a ready fertilizer.

Every year the whole machine is turned quarter cycle, and in four years there is ready super soil to empty for the garden!

A ventilation pipe goes all the way to the roof and a small fan keeps underpreassure in the tanks to take out the possible smell, though when the fermenting gets going there is not much of it.

This is the first floor toilet from inside.

And from te outside.

The second floors toilet,

and heres the seat.
It's hard to see, but this tube goes straight down about 6 meter before the chamber!
With a good flashlight, you can watch the free fall! ;)

The Hobbit House

Lately I've been working on renovating this old farm house.

For the kitchen they wanted something organic.

 We had this beautiful board to work with, sawn at a local saw mill from old logs. Two boards strongly across made it possible to get playfull with the rest.

 A stack of apple tree branches came to rescue in making this look really hobbitish.

First leveling them out to fit exactly between the boards and then piling them up.

Admiring the figures,

 

Getting the last branch to it's place.

                       Then cutting and coaxing few extra boards to their place.

And the hobbit kitchen is ready to serve! :)

ElectricToolBox

 

 Lately I've been busy doing construction and renovation work and here's something I made to ease the moving of the tools to a workplace. 

A toolbox for all the electric tools I need for renovating wood frame houses.

So I got this aluminium trunk for fitting in all the electrical tools needed for daily construction.

 And here are all the tool supposed to get in! They are Makitas 18v series and they work with the same batteries, what is the whole point of the project. 

From the left charger, batteries, power drill, flash light, hand held circular saw, multitool, keyholesaw and foxtail saw.

 This is the fine material cushioning the bottom.

 And this the scetch how it could work out.

 So first Im putting thick rubber for the walls with pull rivets.

  The aluminium bars cut out of scrap help the rubber to resist tear.

Here I'm attaching few poles to the bottom..

 And then attaching everything with rivets and cutting the rubber in to shape.

And this is it! A box full of powertools.

The Other Side

 We were visiting our friends spiritual questhouse in Gotland when I found something interesting in the forest,

a tree that would upside down become an awesome, (and possibly a) living garden gateway!

 So we got in to it and after digging a bit,

 I sawed it down to the right hight

 and knocked it down.

Made holes in the ground for the trunks,

 and after carrying the trunk together we lifted it upside down!

Now I hope it will grow roots and  continue living!

So what's on the other side?

A meditation place with a growing walnut tree in the middle and the most beautiful countryside of Gotland!

The One-Year-Old Pirate!

This amazing pile of staff came to me as a gift from my brother and it took a while to figure out to do a pirateship with it! 

 Here are rolls from old wooden mangle, doors from a cabinet, door pieces from a cabin and handrails from chairs.

 By adding this there's enough for a ship, two pieces of drift wood from the river, horce collar and a wooden slab.

 Our baby helped with the craft and design and we planned to finish by her first birthday.

The main structure is like a box with the rolls helping to move it around.

The prow came out of the drift wood pieces and the bottom of the ship got the arch from the handrails,

 This old core of a wheel helped to raise the cockpit to a decent level.

 And the doors became really stylish pirateship cargo doors, the horse collar wonderful boaw of a ship.

 

Old cutting board transformed to be a nice frame for this old brass ship window.

Pair of rows for the edges and the mast.

 

And here it is, the ship as a cabinet, essential function for off play.

 The amazing steering wheel (and an amazing pirate) our baby got for the ship from friends as birthday present.

 The birthday hero playing hide and seek in the cave.

 And the deck full of pirates!

The Artillery of Art

Planning for a simple rack! A piece of hard wood with figure, a wooden bowl from my past grandma and a small army of  cylinders from the junk yard.

 After splitting the bowl in half, I made more challenging cut to get the figures to match.

Then after attaching turrets I sliced the scraps in to small squers to hide the screws and to give a finished look.

 And then made a proper holdings...

 for hanging it on the wall.

The Artillery of Art.