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Strawbale Archive for January 2000
472 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:39:48 2002

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Insetting bales into existing stud walls



     
     Folks,
     I just bought a small house and at the end of this month I am going to 
     gut the entire thing for a little makeover.  Part of that makeover 
     will be to remove the interior plaster from the exterior walls and 
     install strawbales.  While I am a great fan of experimentation, I 
     thought it would be wise to tap the knowledge of the group before I 
     started in on the project in the hope that I could save a bit of time. 
      The biggest problem I can foresee is how to let in the studs into the 
     bales.  I see only a few options:
     
     1.  Make slots in the sides of the bales for the studs with the evil 
     lancelot.
     
     2.  Kick the bales into the studs in a way that causes a reciprical 
     book of straw on the other side of the stud to protrude into the 
     interior of the building where it can be chainsawed off.
     
     3.  Some other clever way that you folks can think of.....
     
     Help me out please with your experiences.
     
     Many thanks
     
     sam
     
     P.S.  Has anyone tried those fiberwheels that go on grinders as an 
     alternative to the lancelot?
     
Sam Droege  FROG@USGS.GOV                      
w 301-497-5840 h 410-798-5720 fax 301-497-5784
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
 12100 Beech Forest, Laurel, Md 20708-4038
Http://www.mp1-pwrc.usgs.gov


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Profoundly skill'd in analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south, and south-west side:
On either which he would dispute,
Confute, change hands, and still confute,
He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse;
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks Committee-men and Trustees.
He'd run in debt by disputation,
And pay with ratiocination.
All this by syllogism, true
In mood and figure, he would do.; 
    -Exerpted From Hudibras, Samuel Butler