Hi folks. Finally got back onto the site. Long, strange trip it's been...
My best guess on the dome is, academic exercise. Start with one of those big exercise balls and some branches. Lay the cutoff rounds from the branches with the small diameter to the inside, bigger rounds on the bottom. Stack and go. There would probably be some beer involved.
Notice there's very little checking in the rounds, and it doesn't look like it's more than four feet tall or so either, judging by the leaves around it. Pretty likely that it collapsed in a couple of days.
All in all, it looks very cool, but I don't think it's a serious thing. And Storm, you've already got the coolest stacks on the site. Er, em, I mean...