[GSBN] FW: bales

[Rikki Nitzkin]

Not with Clay/cement. But there is an engineer here in spain who soaks  
the bales in recently slaked lime...


Rikki Jennifer Nitzkin
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Para cambiar algo, hay que construir un nuevo modelo que hace obsoleto  
al actual." Buckminster Fuller











El 18/08/2011, a las 3:39, Joyce Coppinger escribió:

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> site noted. Does anyone know Michael?
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> From: Michael Meredith <meredith848 at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Michael Meredith <meredith848 at yahoo.com>
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:41:03 -0700 (PDT)
> To: "thelaststraw at thelaststraw.org" <thelaststraw at thelaststraw.org>
> Subject: bales
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>
> hello, I am an inventor, and would be curious to know if you have  
> ever tried pre-soaking bales in a clay/concrete mix.
>
>  Easily prepared with a mixer in a bucket, this slurry can be poured  
> over bales sitting in a plastic trough.
>
> This pre-soak will, of course, result in a stronger bale, as well as  
> improving the bonding to the stucco.
>
> usually, a mix of 10% or 30% portland cement to clay soil is used.
>
> Stacking these moderately wet may allow the elimination of staking  
> bales, etc. For example, clay-crete mortar between the bales bonds  
> them, chicken wire is stretched over the walls, and a clay /crete  
> stucco is applied. This provides a continual tension member from the  
> roof, to the foundation.
>
> The clay/crete soaked bales will take the stucco more rapidly than a  
> bare bale, the stucco will stick better, and go on faster, too. This  
> will certainly strengthen the walls.
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> To fill in with insulation here and there, add in a mix of hay with  
> crete. Hay/crete has a very interesting texture ( it is lovely), and  
> any mulch can be used.
>  Burlap dipped in  clay/crete or in plaster can be draped over any  
> form, and will take the shape of the form. You can make furniture  
> this way. i make sculptures this way.
>
> Really going wild, hang steel mesh( sheep mesh should do) from the  
> ridge line to the walls' top plate. Place hay/crete on this, and  
> mesh with concrete stucco on this( perhaps ferro-cement). Then  
> waterproof with Duraback polyurethane. Add copper powder to the  
> duraback if you wish, and you now have an inexpensive copper roof,  
> which will need a cheap re-spray in 30 yrs. or so. It can be well  
> insulated with the hay crete.The tension forces are counteracted by  
> the compressile forces of the concrete once it sets. Of course, you  
> may also wish to try a ferro-cement dish roof, or a sheet metal dish  
> roof.
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> You can print this if you wish to...
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> Michael
> statueofmotherhood.com
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