Wednesday, March 14, 2012

[papercreters] Re: Earthbag, Superadobe, Hiperdobe, why not Hiperpapercrete?

I know it's not papercrete, but you should know better. Telling this group you have built something, but not posting photos? That's just not done, is it? ;)

Do you have photos of your wall? Even better yet, do you have photos of the construction process for building your wall?

--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, cloud wall <windwalkerwill@...> wrote:
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> Maybe, an alternative. This is net wrap, used by hay farmers to wrap large round bales. I know that they can contain 1200-1600# of hay in a compressed bale. Used stuff probably isn't a good option. I've tried saving it and you need an act of congress to get it off with out tangling it up. New, though, it could be laid out and the filling be placed down the center of the 4' width and then, fold the sides up and overlapped.  I built a bagged earth wall, determined to make something that draft horses couldn't destroy and intended to use papercrete to turn it into a solid wall. I never got there but, driving rebar posts for stability, barbed wire between the layers and used net wrap crammed in any holes,  I was able to make a small wall that the itches couldn't move. I coated the whole thing with AE so it wouldn't rot while I was getting around to attempting papercrete. It is still standing. Aside from the AE, all recycled materials. Hay farmers use it. It
> can't be expensive.
> One link for the net wrap:
> http://www.ambraco.com/BaleNetwrap/TamaNet_EdegToEdgeWithTamaTech_Netwrap.php
> Clarissa
> Peace and Harmony or Else
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