Instead of 10 people.... whatever you've got that's heavy. Beware of one thing when doing this kind of compression: take care to keep the compressing plank level, or it upends and squirts the mix out. When I made my test samples I filled the mould to the brim, used a relatively thick plank and stopped compressing when the plank top was level with the mould top. Placing weights - my feet in this case - over both plank and mould sides helped control the tendency for the plank to tip and spray the papercrete out.
Papercrete doesn't float, it sinks. I think you'd need polystyrene for the rafts. Or perhaps you could mould some empty plastic bottles into papercrete rafts.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, "tr" <tt10_99@...> wrote:
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> Very interesting I have been stock piling paper for a couple of years now. with the same thoughts of making plant things. This pallet idea is good but what could you use instead of ten people to stand on the plank. I have pallets I have been stockpiles those also. with the idea of making hydroponic beds from them and was thinking i could use paper slurry to fill the gaps instead of trying to find wood to fill the gaps and then laying plastic to hold the water. But also instead of strofoam I could make a two inch layer of paper crepe to use to float the plants if it would last long enough to hold the plant till growth end.
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Monday, March 18, 2013
[papercreters] Re: Papercrete as growing medium
