Sandbag Castle

Step 4

Stacking bags

               
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Here we have the first few layers of rings. Notice the right (downhill) side has more bags to make up for the slope.

I found it easier to pack all the bags for each layer of ring over first and then put down the two rows of barbed wire, held in place with rocks or firewood. Then I would go around and place each bag in it's spot.

Each time I placed a bag I would use it to tamp down the ones under it first. After placement I would pound on it a few times with my fist to even it out a bit. Every time I complete a ring I get on top of it an walk around on it to tamp it down and smooth it out.

 
 
 
 

Now it's starting to look like something.

Each time the wire comes to the end of a layer it is wrapped around and under the last bag. This happens for doors and windows as well as these places where the layers are going to meet each other due to this adjustment for slope.

I'll ad some half bags here and there to make the transition smooth. Eventualy the rings will become leval and go back to the the full 40 bag ring of bags and wires like the first ring except it will be level.

Once I smooth out into a continuous leval ring of bags I just continue up until I am over my head and then the room starts to curve inward into the domed area over head. This will be acomplished by laying bags of each ring slightly off center towards the inside of the circle.

 
 

 

  
               
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