SB: Re: Re: Bales in the midwest

["Raquel & Greg" <eatrice@princetonca.net>]

> > Well, at last we are ready for bales and you know all those bales that we
> > bought two years ago and stacked under a tarp have, well, composted.  (We
> > were naive and way too optimistic about the build time)
>
> I also was too optimistic two years ago and baled the straw for my house.  The
> bales sat two years in an open sided pole barn with a leaky roof.  They
endured
> driving rain, weeks of fog, and our brutal summer sun.  Rodents tunneled
through
> them, wasps and birds build nests in them, and I once saw a cat poke its head
> out of a crack about 10 feet off the ground.  In spite of all this, when we
> raised the bales this weekend, we discarded VERY few bales.  In fact, more
were
> set aside for broken strings than for any damage to the straw.  Rice straw is
> good stuff!
>
> Greg
>
>


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