We put up a trial wall in preparation for working bees. After many errors with stacking tie downs and difference of opinions the final small wall was up and secured. This was to form the strategy for future walls.
The bale needles made from an antenna worked well – You have to reduce bale size to make brick like work in the walls. Tying off the smaller bales is the hard part. Thanks to a sailor it was made to look easy. It was beneficial to use paint spray to document the size (in mm) on the remanding bales.
Mr I want to build a straw bale house had around 16 people over the weekend to impart his skills on. Nearly electrocuting himself while trimming a bale, the cook (me) lost all power for the cutting of the extension lead tripped the fuse box. Nobody was hurt but lunch was very late and the water was luke warm for a cuppa.
Once again friends come up and put in hard so that our house walls and concept of the straw was started.
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