Cob: plasters/chopping straw

[Charmaine R Taylor]

Steve,
I was just at a workshop where we needed chopped straw for plaster. We
built a make
shift box in a corner of the building with plywood and straw bales and
then ran a lawn
mower over straw in the box.
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Another version on that that Ken Kern did was to upend a rotary
lawnmower  blade system (push blade kind) and mount is over a box and
just  turned a handle attached to the blade  side rail and passed straw
thru to chop with no electricty or fuel needed.

some people also drop straw into a barrel while someone uses a
wheedwacker to chop it.

Charmaine  Taylor/ Taylor Publishing
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