SB: Re: Foolish to continue....?

["Robert W. Tom" <archilogic@yahoo.ca>]

12/31/01 12:33:56 AM, "Andy Higgs" <wntrblt@telusplanet.net> wrote:

>>[Mr. Reminick] especially deserves kudos for not mentioning the 
>>midget porcine triplets "incident" that the media so loves to cite.
>
>1) We are planning to build in bales
>2) Our family name is Higgs
>3) Until very recently my wife Sue was the membership coordinator for the
>Central Rockies Wolf Project...dedicated to the conservation and research 
>on Rocky Mountain wolf packs.......
>
>I am beginning to feel that perhaps we ought to think about this straw thing
>a little more carefully....

Dear (Three ?) (Little ?) Higgs Family;

I think that it might be useful to note that in the time which has elapsed
since the much-publicised, infamous triplets "incident", there have been 
a number of advances in  straw building technology which should alleviate 
most of the concerns associated with straw homes built in close proximity
to lupine habitats.

Probably the most notable of these is the invention of the baling machine 
which makes it possbile for anyone (even those with cloven hooves instead 
of opposable digits) to properly tie bales, creating densely-packed building 
blocks which  are not readily susceptible to the potentially destructive 
huffing and puffing  of vandalous lupids .   (ie It has been suggested by at least
one pundit (the DEsert DElinquent, David "Porky" Eisenberg), that the failure 
of the midget porcine triplets straw structure was due in large part to their 
inability to make and properly tie bales simply because pigs don't have 
thumbs.)

Twila Ard's son's SB home in Florida, which survived at least 
two "hits" by hurricanes, should provide ample proof of this fact.  
(Note that the Ard structure was unfinished at the time that the 
hurricanes struck, not yet having the straw bales encapsulated in plaster.)

Moreover,  Alberta's close proximity to Canada's major cereal 
grain-production zone and Alberta's arid climate with its c-c-c-old winters
would seem to be particularly well-suited to  the insulative properties
par excellence, of thick, strawbale walls (not to mention the good
bullet and fire resistance that the thick plaster coating can provide, 
in view of the fact that Albertan Weibo Ludwig is no longer incarcerated 
and presumably will resume his long-standing battle with arsenous
oil companies. As Albertan Rob Joly says "Weibo Wobbles but you can't
knock him down.)


We are fortunate that there are a number of SB homes already existing
in Alberta, some of which have been the subject of studies performed 
(by the above-mentioned Mr. Joly) under the auspices of Canada Mortgage 
and Housing Corporation's Housing Research Division, to look at their 
hygrothermal performance characterisitics.

And a-dib-a-dib-a-dib th-a-a-at's all folks. 
Best wishes to all for this New Year.

--- * ---
Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
<ChaffArchiLogic@yahoo.ca>
(winnow the "chaff" spamguard from my edress in your reply)

Please visit http://www.theHungerSite.com daily




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