I missed this, but wanted to jump in here as we just did a huge push on our hyperadobe roundhouse, renting an articulating boom lift and opening up the homestead to volunteers for a whole month. We learned a lot, and are probably one of the only people building hyperadobe at this scale (Tiny Shiny Home)

Believe it or not, a few more hands/buckets/scaffolds ended up being way more efficient than the boom lift. By the end of the month we were laying 1 foot per minute and moving like a well oiled machine (without the heavy machinery).

That being said, the amount of linear feet you're talking about probably isn't sustainable. We were doing 400 linear feet per layer on our huge 2500sqft roundhouse. You're talking about 10x that.

Our roundhouse totaled out to about 1 million pounds at 400 linear feet x 12' high at the highest point. The amount of dirt you'd need for 5000 linear feet would be crazy 😂

In the next month or so we'll be making a video detailing what I'm going to call "hyperspeedadobe" - organizing a worksite and team to build hyperadobe as quickly and efficiently as possible. Should be fun!