<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Derek, I long to do a great deal more than <b class="">watch</b> it in action! I appreciate the voltage and Hz issues. The response of the manufacturer, that they simply don't sell to 60 Hz locations, doesn’t encourage optimism about tolerance of the machine for our supply. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> But step down converters are not prohibitively priced. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Benedikt, thanks for the kind offer, I will look into it further. The smaller machine you mentioned appears to only vibrate a toothed blade, which I have not found to be very effective on straw. The Big Thing appears to have two toothed blades that work in opposition. ( Reminds me of the electric carving knife my dad used at the dinner table.) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bob Theis</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 24, 2020, at 12:10 AM, Global Straw Building Network <<a href="mailto:gsbn@sustainablesources.com" class="">gsbn@sustainablesources.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Derek Roff</b> <span dir="auto" class=""><<a href="mailto:derek@unm.edu" class="">derek@unm.edu</a>></span><br class="">Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 9:10 AM<br class="">Subject: Re: [Gsbn] Fwd: getting a German hay cutter<br class="">To: GSBN Global Straw Building Network <<a href="mailto:gsbn@sustainablesources.com" class="">gsbn@sustainablesources.com</a>><br class=""></div><br class=""><br class="">
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I’d love to see this machine in action. Most building sites have 240V power available. At a guess, our 60 HZ electricity would work with this machine, but some electronics may require the 50 Hz used in Europe. It would be worth verifying whether this machine
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<div class="">I just learned about this tool, and would love to hear if any of you in Europe have used it: </div>
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<div class=""><font face="HoeflerText-Regular" class=""> The ability to shape bales was my initial purpose - I’ve always had the dream of carving bas-reliefs into bale walls prior to pastering, and this seems like just the tool for that.</font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="HoeflerText-Regular" class=""> But at an earth plastering workshop this weekend, where I was reminded what a noisy, dusty process generating chopped straw is, I saw the potential to simply slice off short sections of a bale like slicing
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<div class=""><font face="HoeflerText-Regular" class="">On inquiry the firm sent me a very polite reply that they don’t sell to those of us with 110 volt electricity. </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="HoeflerText-Regular" class="">Would one of you be willing to do the legwork of buying this dream machine and shipping it over here? I realize it would have to be paired with a step down voltage converter. </font></div>
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<div class=""><font face="HoeflerText-Regular" class="">We’d be willing to let you play with it first. Share the toys. </font></div>
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