Cody it's shocking and disgraceful that Google / KZfaq haven't paid you anything in the last few years. I really hope you get that sorted out you should making good money from this awesome channel of yours. It's one of the best channels on the whole frickin' platform.

"He hurt his antenna so we had to give him a temporary reflector dish here for communications." 🤣🤣🤣

I laughed at the cat’s antenna and reflective dish comment. I hope your cat heals soon.

Makes me sick to hear that youtube isn't paying a long time, humble and educational content maker like you, Cody. There needs to be some serious back pay here, the flogs.

14:49 pause here and you can see a rattlesnake in a little cave and Cody didn’t even see it… my god I’m glad he is okay…

In industry we use 'slide plates' made of teflon or HDPE riding on thin polished stainless steel to allow piping systems to move due to thermal expansion. Since the tanks are already HDPE, polished stainless sheet on the wood runners may be a good enough future solution, there would be much less friction than the wood. We have immense loads on surprisingly small bearing areas without binding. Mounting a sump centrally would also mitigate the issue, but complicate draining.

Every time we see RoboCody the filming gets more and more impressive.

Nobody gonna mention how close cody was to a snake at 14:48

the extra production value at the start with robocody walking around was really great

always a good day when cody uploads, especially when it's chickenhole base

14:48 I was not expecting you to casually walk past that snake. xD

Not every video has to be a major project, just seeing you and RoboCody and the critters and the day to day is satisfying. It's good to know ChickenHole Base is still out there moving along. It was nice to see the landscape looking a bit more verdant than last time.

Yey, chickenhole base series is back. You also look happier. Happier cody is always a good thing.

Wood mostly expands an contract due to humidity. Its like 7 % horizontal to the grain and 0.1-0.5 with the grain. Plastic on the other hand is affected by heat. I did construct some furniture with 20 metres (i dunno, 60 ish feet) long plastic parts, and we had to make them like 5 cm longer, otherwise they would shrink to mutch down when it gets cold.

To weatherproof the roller gap and have flex you can use the L shaped garage door seals from Homedepot (or wherever). Foam-rubber, extremely durable, resist UV well, etc. It's actually really handy stuff for misc projects.

I remembered watching the chicken hole series 3 years ago and suddenly thought about it today. I’m glad you’re still on it, I loved this series!! I never see your videos in my feed even though I’m subscribed I was worried you weren’t making videos anymore :(

Always a treat to have another episode of chickenhole base, that roller solution to thermal expansion is cheap and elegant

Loving all the easter eggs throughout the video. Plenty of eggs around from the chickens, might as well have fun with them.

i was confused how you did the robo cody scene so flawlessly, until i realized it wasn't actually an edited scene like previous ones. but infact a real different person. nice

Good luck on the antenna repairs! I'm sure that rover will be excited to not need the comms dish anymore

I always love the easter eggs throughout the videos. Not just the egg ones.

Was that a rattlesnake at 14:48?

Imagine how beautiful this area will look like 50 years from now.

Its amazing how much sheer effort and work Cody has put into this project. Its almost as amazing as the fact that KZfaq won't pay him for it??? The man has 2.13 MILLION subscribers. Cody's Lab is as a channel is one of the greatest KZfaq channels to ever grace the website and has continued to produce high level and consistently interesting videos. I hope something changes soon. I never get more excited to see a new video from a subscription than from Cody'Lab no matter how long it takes him to post or how little progress he makes in the video. I will never not watch it. N e v e r.

Love some Cody'sLab

Love the cactus planting and hope to see more, I really think you can turn your property into something special! I also hope you look into permaculture or terraforming projects to make the "martian habitat" a little more human friendly. Swales and water collection can go a long way!

I just discovered the Chickenhole Base series, time to binge all of them. Thanks for uploading despite not getting a dime for it and I hope it gets resolved soon

What I like about the chicken hole base is that every episode presents a problem, an explanation on why the problem is happening and then a possible solution with a cliffhanger on if it worked or not

Is that snake hiding in the rocks real? 😂 14:49

Hopefully the Checkmark means they're going to finally pay ya!!

Glad to see that Cody is doing better. Sorry to hear about his friend’s antenna malfunction. Good thing he had a reflector dish available but I hope the antenna repairs happen quickly. 😂

I let out a audible "YES!" when I saw this upload. Thanks for the update and I'm glad things are coming along at the CHB!

Those staple pipes probably aren't gonna work. it might be easier to install the pipes on Rebar/Metal rods through the wood, with bearings to get an easy roll. also you might want to put some rubber caps or something on those pipes. once you put a lot of weight on those pipes they might start to misshapen or even damage the habitat as it it expands and contracts.

Always excited to see a new ChickenHole Base episode!

You wont get away with an air tube thanks to frictional losses. You'd be looking at 3" diameter or greater for reasonable flow but pressure will still be very very low. That said, attached to a greenhouse with a similar fresh air draw, downhill, buried in the ground and you've got geothermal cooling pipes. A well established principle. If you need to keep things sealed off you could just pass the pipe through the greenhouse and attach a heat exchanger. The heat exchanger design will be rough due to the low pressure but it's certainly doable. Think a large automotive intercooler.

I come specifically to Cody'sLab when I'm extremely depressed. It's been many years. Here I am again. Of course I still have watched in the interim, but once again, I'm binging now.

The Easter eggs in these video's always give me a chuckle haha

Yay! Another Video! Would be awesome to see those rollers roll. If some don't, I would take a book out of my skateboarding days and apply wax to the area you want with less friction.

Awesome project. I wish I had the energy for something like that. Thanks for letting us take part in your adventures 😊

Instead of a sump, you could make a wicking system. Install slotted irrigation pipe with a sock and cover with sand. You could make multiple layers of pipe+sand. Put a pipe into your irrigation pipe to fill the bottom with water. Then put a layer of landscape fabric, to prevent plant material from getting into the sand. On top of that put in your soil as deep as your plants need. Then the water will wick up the sand to the soil and draw the root down as it dries out. I do this with pots and I can get over a gallon of water into the bottom of a large pot.

Chickenhole base episodes are the best. I pretty much drop whatever I am doing and watch immediately!

It is utterly disgraceful that KZfaq have not paid you for so long! I haven't any spare money to donate, only kind words, hope you're doing well, Cody, and that all this gets straightened out

For the piping/suction system, I reckon just having a larger hose running up the mountain would help. It'd probably help to wind it around some to increase surface area with the sun. More heat. Maybe put some insulating underneath to minimise heat loss. Have it go from a smaller radius near the ends to a larger radius in the middle too.

So glad these are stil comming out, always love learning with you Cody, best of wishes to you and yours.

Last night, I was thinking how I needed a new Cody's lab update, specifically the chicken hole base update. Wake up, and here it is. Thanks Cody!

13:50 you should just build a handcrank waterscrew to get the water up there & they're pretty simple to build

Thanks for the inspiration! I've been wanting to plant some cactus in my yard for a while, and this might have been the final inspiration I needed. Absolutely love cactus blossoms.

The fuzzy friend has a NAME! Moly. This makes me unreasonably happy.

Google has gotten sooooo greedy and ruined things for creators on the platform. I hear the same thing from a ton of people on channels I subscribe to. Keep up the fight and always enjoy seeing an upload from Cody's Lab.

Make sure to upgrade Robo-Cody with the hearing protection modules next time before cutting stuff!

I could nevere get enough of CHB! seriously, for me this is the best thing on the entire platform! Thanks Cody!

14:48 There's a rattlesnake in the hole to the right! That's who took an egg offering!

woah place looks so different with grass around not very mars like but admittedly i think i prefer the green

Long-time fans will remember the “chicken hole” is a rock formation mortared back together by Cody to look like a chicken after it broke…

The time lapse of the thermometer and the plastic was really cool

I love the "reflector dish for communications" much better than the "cone of shame," so it's officially changed. Also, if YT needs verification, I can vouch for the fact that you kept me sane during covid lockdown and have been fun to share with my students. If you need letters, just let us know. YT should pay up with interest. Much love from broiling Central Valley, CA! 💚✌️😎🌵🐈 Ps. You should plant some nopales, aloe, and agave, as well. And, are there any local cactus varieties? PPS I believe a racoon or a large bird took your offering, which is totally acceptable under the Rules for Offerings to the Gods, Sect. 3, para. 2. 😸

The snake at 14:48 just chillin xD

I'm going to rewatch this entire series from Ep1. Awesome series.

I always get excited when I see one of these! Thanks for continuing to make fantastic content Cody. You’re awesome and I hope you keep doing what you’re doing

Video idea for you. Attach a bunch on strong neodymium magnets to the bottom of your car low enough to pull things off the ground as you drive by. Drive on the freeway and show us what you find. See which magnetic metals you pick up.

I love you man. Thanks for all you do for humankind.

When installing spouting along house roofs, you must consider the thermal expansion and put fittings in that mitigate its affect. It's not so much that theres a large difference, more so that even a small difference in coefficients compiles over a long distance to add up to a significant gap.

love the sneaky rattle snake

I'm suprised that at 16:50 when he opened the fridge, we didn't see a jar labled "pickled toes" or "fungus starter pack" or something like that. 😅

2:35 how does everyone manage to get such beautiful compost ? Last time I tried some chicken droppings chopped up weeds and used up mushroom blocks It has been 3 months and it's decomposing but looks kinda yellow not black

Rattle(?) snake at 14:50 in that tiny cave, you be careful now.

Thanks for everything Cody!

11:19 why is there an egg there xd

It's just sad that Google is doing that to you, I really enjoy the content that you produce, thanks again , I really appreciate it.

Hey cody, long time watcher here, your cacti look great, if you need another flowering plant for your bees to enjoy which is pretty hardy to dry climate and can resist frost i'd suggest Thymus serpyllum, also known as Breckland thyme, Breckland wild thyme, wild thyme, creeping thyme, or elfin thyme as the name suggests its a kind of thyme but it doesn't get very tall but it covers the ground like grass and has a lovely purple color when flowering apparently it doesn't need that much water and i'd think it would survive the climate where you're from also, your bees would get a nice tasty snack out of it

Easily one of the most underrated channels on youtube. I always love a new codys lab video!

Hey Cody. Good to see your well. Love the fake rattler in the hole at 14:48 and who gets the egg at 11:15 ? 🙂

Yay Cody! Hope everything finds you well! Been a hot one in the intermountain west! Sweating my booty off in the State to the north of you. 🥵

Favorite series on KZfaq!

Been a viewer for a few years now, glad to see you're still at it. Since your hosepipe up the hill seems to be an issue, I'm a welder, and we often use a flow gauge to diagnose issues with gas lines and O-rings in equipment. Don't know if theyd detect flow as low as you'd require, but that was my first thought. Keep on keeping on dude, and give that cat a pat for me! Cheers

If you want to produce more videos but are worried about the quality of experiments.. don't Cody. We'd gladly watch you do chores around that base or errands around the house. Don't feel obligated to only make a video when you got experiments to show us. Those are great but you are what your fans are here to see. Hope you see this and it helps with the pressure you feel to create experiments for us.

Cody try making LK-99

love the work cody. love seeing your videos.

Thank you for another update on the bees ❤️ I hope they're enjoying their summer vacation Lol I hope the furball feels better soon ❤️ Stay safe, stay awesome, and have fun!!!

14:48 - is that the skin of a cobra?

At 14:48 is that a diamondback rattlesnake in that hole?! Very lucky it didnt mind you walking around so close to its hideout xD

this was great, want to see this everyweek plz

Great to see you back Cody! Great channel.

13:42 create a "greenhouse" on the top of the hose, a small glas on the sunny side box with Black interior and conect the hose to a bucket inside of it with an uppward openning so the more intense heated air will come out and kinda vacuum suck the air out of the hose. Maybe will be enough to overpower the friction.

Awesome awesome, thanks for this. Stay safe out there. ... also i seen that rattle snake in the hole to the right. (14:48). hahaha nice.

Been manually searching your channel out every week to see if there's another episode. Thanks a ton for the upload!

Draw a string thrrough the black tubing. Keep the bottom end submerged. The capilary force will draw water up to the top of the hill. The tube will prevent it all from evapoating on the way up.

Thanks for the video's Cody, Glad I am able to support a small amount to keep you going.

Most under appreciated underrated channel on the tube! Thank you RoboCody and company for this amazing content!

I've loved your content for years.

Loved the Video as always! And i really appreciated the joke about the antenna and reciever dish haha

Cody can plant a variety of cactus that provides food for the bees.

the black cable isn't producing a draft because it would need constant temperature changes, once it's received full sun and the air inside is fully expanded any draft will end, expansion will also happen in both directions - both ends of the cable will have an outward draft until equilibrium when warming up and an inward draft until equilibrium when cooling

I love the chicken hole series so much

are you terraforming? give it a few cactus generations and the rocky wasteland may been full of a green forest of cactus :)

00:22 Some sort of rats? 14:48 Some sort of lizard?

Your base has really come along!

14:49 wow, you just walked past a rattle snake. Enjoyed the update, keep up the great work.

Thank you for continuing to put out videos.

Plastic does indeed have dramatic expansion in heat; I sit at a shop bench all day and it has a plastic top and you can can always tell it's getting hot because it starts to warp dramatically. I aught to cut some channels along the bolts to allow it to expand and contact without the warping. I recall an episode of the Mythbusters where they had trouble getting a super long toy car track to work because it kept expanding in the sun and forming large bumps.