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Strawbale Archive for April 2001
99 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:41:45 2002

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SB: Pier loads for bale wall



I was calculating loads for a pier foundation and came across the figure of 25# / sqft / course of bales. So for a 36' X 10' wall  (360 sq ft) we are looking at a load of 63,000#.  360x25x7=63000#. Is this the correct way to calculate this? If so thats makes an even more tremendous load than I suspected. The number of peirs needed to safely hold this, an possibly to add a second floor, is very large.  Am I calculating this correctly? Thanks Jeff