[pyx]

Great topic. Thanks ! You're Preparedness Manual is an "absolute must" have for all families.

Please post a RELIABLE and READILY AVAILABLE source for the tools and types of materials for these types of shelters, particularly the SuperAdobe Earth bags themselves. Please also include relative costs.

Also, please post/recommend suggestions for doors and windows for these shelters to be used in more temperate climates such as that found in Washington State or Minnesota or Michigan or the Dakotas.

[Ellendra]

I read an article written by a farmer who had made one of these, he used empty feed sacks.

[Kartographer]

You can pretty much frame and use what ever windows you like. One of the suggests is that doors and windows be salvaged from damaged buildings. Flooring and roofing using used pallets. what ever is handy.

a ground tamper
shovels
sand bags (I found bags as low as 29 cents a piece with no shipping on Amazon)
rolls of barbed wire
a few bags of concret mix
plastic sheving
tarps
roofing tar

I saw one thing that would help they use a piece of cut 12” plastic pipe or a bucket to measure the sand, in this way the same amout of sand is placed in each bag.

Here are a few good videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t9wydToX2o&feature=related

also there are a good number of useful videos here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/naturalhouses