[Cob] strawbale to existing adobe wall attachment

[Howard Switzer]

You might check in with Matthew
Nistico<http://nbnetwork.org/members/elessarrex/>,
he built a simple jig for sawing them in half, think he may have added the
strings too.
Its not hard to make them tighter than the baling machine with a truckers
hitch knot.  Put the string around the bale, tie a loop on one end of the
string
and put the other end through it and pull back to tight, then about 8-12"
further back on the string from that point tie another loop in the string so
that you can then put the end through that loop too and pull it back the
other way, now you can feel the power of being able to pull it really tight,
then tie it off
at the loop. To hold the bales to the wall we would probably fasten wire
loops to the wall at each course, somehow, in order to to tie-wire vertical
1/2" bamboo stakes,
18" c/c horiz, to really tighten the straw to the wall.


On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 12:24 AM, Ron Becker <ron45 at tularosa.net> wrote:

> What are the nuts and bolts putting a half bale [longways] skin on a
> stabilized adobe wall? How to people prepare a two string bale for sawing up
> the middle. i.e. how is the tension on the added new strings achieved? This
> assumes making it into a four string bale to give the halves some integrity
> for handling once it is sawed up the middle.
>
>
> Ron
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