SB: to pin or not to pin

[Katey <newtribe@directvinternet.com>]

Huff 'n' Puff Constructions wrote:
> No need to use steel, No need for pins, No need for steel
> netting, Load Bearing small buildings, lots of Earth and a
> little Lime, No need for cement and soon Bamboo Roof
> Framing.  Just simplicity, as Masanobu says, "a pleasant way
> to farm (build)."
I am curious about this "no pins" method.  We have stopped using internal
pinning and all use of metal pins, but we are still pinning our
bales using an external pinning method with bamboo or local wood.

Is the no pin method because the bales are being mortared together?  If so doesn't this create thermal leaks at every course?  What would be the advantage (other than if you were making a dome)?

We have found external pinning to be a fast and effective way to get a solid wall that stays in place prior to plastering.  I also noticed that the new edition of Build it With Bales does not mention extenal pinning.  Isn't the idea behind an "update" to include the new and different methods which we have discovered in our ever-evolving straw bale movement?

Just wondering,
katey

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Katey Culver
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