Re: SB: metal in walls

[Rick Measham <info.isite@gsat.net.au>]

G'day Aaron,
My $0.02: Head out to your local auto-wreckers and grab a pile of old 
seatbelts ... you're recycling, not using metal and they'll not 
perish when wet. Someone might have a device for tieing them down and 
compressing the bales, it shouldn't be too hard to make a gizmo, a 
thingo or a whatzit. Oh, and you'll also need some safe way to join 
them, without fatiging the webbing, once again, can't be too hard.

Cheers!
Rick

P.S. $AUD0.02 = $US0.01, and then there is the fact that I've only 
*heard* of this and never done it ...

See also:
>Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 21:44:50 -0400
>From: Robert W Tom <archilogic@juno.com>
>Subject: SB: re: A new Tie down method for SB ???



At 9:42 AM -0500 18/12/01, Aaron Corbin wrote:
>HI folks,
>      I was fortunate enough to attend the California Straw Builders 
>Association Conference (CASBA) last month. They are truly a great 
>organization and a great group of people. Some of the discussion 
>surrounded some evidence that metal ,any metal in a straw wall was 
>having water condense on it and creating a focal piont for rot in 
>the straw. Avoiding rebar pinning seems easy enough to avoid, but I 
>am still interested in using steel cable as tie downs for 
>load-bearing walls.
>         So I'm looking for anecdotal evidence about metal causing 
>rot in straw especially cable. I'm also looking for suggestions 
>about poly strapping or some alternative to the steel cable system 
>that would be fast and efficient.
>Aaron Corbin
>Viroqua, WI

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