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Strawbale Archive for March 2002
489 messages, last added Tue Nov 26 17:42:47 2002

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Re: SB: to pin or not to pin



Dear Katey
 
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.
We use high tensile fencing wire 2.5 gauge for the tie downs over a top plate and through a bottom plate.  We use medium gripples to pre-compress the walls.  So we do use a small amount of steel in the fencing wire.  We usually pre-compress to 50 mm or two inches.

Happy Easter to all of you must go, have a workshop to run.

Hope you all had a good Good Friday (It's Saturday here).

Regards The Straw Wolf
http://strawbale.archinet.com.au
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