Tiger Hill Permaculture
  • Home
  • About Us
  • About Permaculture
    • Permaculture in Action >
      • Blog
    • FAQ's
    • Reading List
  • Courses
  • On Farm Projects
    • Opportunities
    • Volunteering
  • Photo Gallery
    • 2011 >
      • Project Beginning
      • My Trusty Farm Truck
    • 2012 >
      • Water Harvesting Earthworks
    • 2013 >
      • Stakeholders Gathering - Ending Re-offending Workshop
      • Forestry Prep and Earthworks
      • Development of Training Centre Envelope
    • 2014 >
      • Mobile Lucas mill
      • Raised Garden Bed Construction - Rockwalling
      • Seed ball making the Fukuoka way.
      • Tree Fern Garden
      • Making a Rustic Compost Bin System
      • Contructing a Holzmiete inspired Compost Toilet and Urinal
      • Making Bone Sauce
      • Water harvesting from roof catchments
      • Building our first kitchen garden
    • 2015 >
      • Installing Irrigation
      • Converting the Shearing Shed to Bunk House
      • Building the Pizza Oven
      • Bath House Construction
      • Making the Wwoofers Kitchen
      • 1st Inaugural Earthworks Course
      • A Very White Winter
      • Kitchen Garden Expansion V2.2
      • Building a pumpkin trellis + update
      • Installation of Drip Irrigation
      • Potato Towers - An experiment in vertical gardening
      • Preserving seasonal vege
    • 2016 >
      • How to make a bottled window panel
      • Berkley Compost Pile
      • This seasons harvest
      • Water tank and stand
      • Winter garden maintenance
      • Worm farm build
      • Belladigga "Beautiful Dam" and Swale fills and spills
      • A week in the life of a Tiger Hill volunteer
      • Kitchen Garden Fencing Project
      • Kitchen Garden Expansion V2.3
      • Farm Tour - Water Harvesting
      • Rock Wall Build
      • Building a Broad Fork
      • Planter Boxes
      • Tool Shed Fit Out
      • Pumpkin Patch Sheet Mulched
    • 2017 >
      • Kitchen Fit Out
      • Bath House Wall
      • Chalet Stairs
      • Butchers Block Build
      • Holtzmeter V2.2
      • Installing Drip Irrigation
      • Making the Kitchen Door
      • Garden Bed Build
      • Compost Slide
      • Composting
      • Dining Room Door
      • Dining Table
      • Fertilizer/ Compost Zone
      • Rocket Mass Water Heater V2.1
      • Bath House Additions
      • Bunk House Reno
      • Chicken Caravan Build
      • Ramp and Stairs
      • Workshop Benches
      • Nursery Construction
      • Bunk House Heater
      • Kitchen Atrium Build
      • Orchard Implementation
      • Planter Box V.2
      • Milk Crate Planters
      • Kitchen Garden Tour
    • 2018 >
      • Preserving the harvest
  • Contact Us

Construction of Holzmiete inspired Compost toilet and Urinal System
http://permaculturenews.org/2014/10/03/construction-holzmiete-inspired-compost-toilet-urinal-system-tasmania-australia/

Last year some trees cleared for milling on the farm and a by-product of that process was the tree crowns and stumps that can't be milled. There is estimated to be about 200 ton of stumps and crowns to be cut up for firewood as a result. This ensures that all resources from the project stay on the site and less need to transport firewood in.

I had always loved the look of the German wood piles and was introduced to these by the late Joe Polaischer of Rainbow Valley Farm in New Zealand. Joe had made these wood piles throughout his property as functional firewood drying systems as well as artsy little structures that looked like houses. These are common place in Austria where Joe was raised. A Holzmeite is translated as an engineered woodpile (a woodpile engineered and stacked in a way that won’t fall over). Holzhaufen, translated as a wood house (house for firewood).

As the Tiger Hill Farm is in great need of amenities for workshops in the future, I had the idea after visiting a few web sites, to combine the wood pile style wall construction but rather than filling the centre with wood, the centre remains a space to incorporate a toilet. With the dedicated efforts of 5 wwoofers,  this quirky, artistic and functional multiple use space is set to be a crowd pleaser. An 80Lt  wheelie bin is the compost chamber with a solar chimney plumbed into the rear of the bin to draw air thru and out of the compost toilet to keep odour to a minimum. This is a very  basic composting system to utilize for purpose and will be reengineered after further research.

The finished item has a permanent roof to harvest water for a wash station. An electric light with light shade made from 4 litre cooking oil can, and permanent door way frame with hand crafted door. The firewood is stacked with a pitch leaning inwards and the interior of the structure has a lined wall to retain the timber from inside. The wall was made from discarded pallets and old star picket posts.

The timber dries in the pile for up to 3 years, depending on how green the timber is initially. Once dry, the walls are dismantled, stored and consumed. As the roof, door frame and internal wall lining are permanent only the walls need to be refilled for the next drying period. Traditional Holzmeites have a wide range of roof finishing’s including domed stacked wood and shingle type tiles.  It is planned to have several of these around the farm workers to use. There are huge piles of material that was pushed up by the dozer then the trees were felled, so we will just make them where the timber is. The initial structure took about  4 weeks to construct and holds 19 cubic meters of firewood.

Next to this Holzmeite, we have created another wall up against an existing cabin to create a privacy screen for a gents urinal system. Wheelie bins or barrels are filled with saw dust to soak up the urine then the sawdust is composted. This also reduces the use of water in a traditional flush toilet One creative way to recycle nitrogen. Again we are using wheelie bins as they as easy to relocate to the composting area.

A 900ltr water tank was repurposed from the Tiger Hill Chalet to provide water for a hand wash station and guttering and down pipes were fitted to both the Holzmeite and adjacent cabin to harvest approx. 30 square meters of catchment. The over flow from this tank is connected underground to the main house tank which will improve the water harvesting capabilities for domestic consumption.

And yes, the roof is not level for all with the keen eye. This was an engineering floor but not drastic enough to compromise the structure. It adds some character.





http://www.holzmiete.de/instruction.php

https://www.google.com.au/searchq=holzmiete&biw=1920&bih=985&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=p2qvU47QFtfo8AXuzYKIAw&sqi=2&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ




Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.