Re: SB: life expectancy

[roger e gorham <pilgrim78@juno.com>]

hi all...  when i was young,  about 1492...  a neighbor had an Allis
Chalmers Roto-Baler round baler.  I helped put the hay in the barn on
several occassions and always hated the task...  the bales were hard to
handle, even with hay hooks, harder to stack, they ran right out from
under the stack, and when we fed the hay, we always had a tangled mees of
twine left in the racks, cause we had to feed them whole...  they were
tight, heavy, and hard to handle, but the did stand weather well...   and
they baled about as fast as you could pull the thing over the meadow...  
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 14:39:45 -0500 jmark.vanscoter@amd.com writes:
> I just found this and thought I could add something.
> 
> The round baler was probably an Allis Chalmers Roto-Baler. They 
> started selling them about them. The idea was that the bales were 
> exceptionally weatherproof because the water followed the strands of 
> straw and ran off, not through, the bales. Also, the bales were very 
> dense (too dense?) and did not allow easy water entry.
> 
> I remember seeing pictures of a demonstration held at the Wisconsin 
> State Fair (IIRC). They had a device like a merry-go-round with 6 or 
> 8 bales. Alternating square and round. The bales ran under a 
> fountain of water and very shortly the square bales were drenched, 
> the A-C round bales stayed dry.
> 
> Not at all very relevant to building a SB structure in today's 
> environment, unfortunately.
> 
> Mark V.S. in Austin, TX
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kester Wilkinson [mailto:thestrawhouse@hotmail.com]
> 
> <snip>
> no one knows when it was built, our neighbouring farmer cannot 
> remember a 
> time when it was not there, it was built by his father , as he is 56 
> he 
> reckons it was built some time in the 40's.  It was built because 
> the farm 
> bought a round baler from america, there were very excited by this, 
> it made 
> quite small round bales very quckly - 1.5 foot diameter.
> 
> However, when they went to unroll them for animal bedding they were 
> baled so 
> tightly they just rolled about and wouldn't unravel.  So, rather 
> than leave 
> them to rot, they used that years harvest to build animal shelters, 
> 
> apparently they built several, the stable is all that remains.  It 
> is built 
> with hop poles, a shingled roof and then wrapped in chicken wire, 
> the bales 
> have been stacked up against the chicken wire.
> 
> 
>
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