GypsyJan
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Gee, It's Not Baja, Instead Oaxaca, But Maybe Home Builders will Like This
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/it-may-look-funny-but-woman...
[Edited on 3-14-2018 by GypsyJan]
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BajaBlanca
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Very creative! I bet those residents are so happy to have their homes.
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chuckie
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Neat construction...When we had the ranch, we built a cabin of Straw bales, sprayed with stucco, wood stove , pallet floor...Cheap and very
effective...Lots of BETTER ways to create housing....Thanks Jan
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John Harper
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Quote: Originally posted by chuckie  | | Neat construction...When we had the ranch, we built a cabin of Straw bales, sprayed with stucco, wood stove , pallet floor...Cheap and very
effective...Lots of BETTER ways to create housing....Thanks Jan |
My friend built an entire barn out of hay bales. Great insulation.
John
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ehall
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http://www.ancientpages.com/2016/04/04/arizonas-enigmatic-be... Looks a lot like these in az
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chuckie
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We used Wheat straw, not hay. Essentially free, and baled them ourselves into extra tight bales. Bound the walls together simply by driving rebar pins
top to ground.....Used scrap windows from a tear down house.....
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Paco Facullo
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| Quote: Originally posted by chuckie | | We used Wheat straw, not hay. Essentially free, and baled them ourselves into extra tight bales. Bound the walls together simply by driving rebar pins
top to ground.....Used scrap windows from a tear down house..... |
Now that's ingenuity !
Just don't pee off the wolf, or else he might burn your house down ????
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yumawill
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wow!!! I'm impressed.Good On you Mexico. Straw bales won't burn. Go and try it. I tried to build with straw bale here in Yuma. Ha. Absolutely not
done. No ASTM stamp on bales. County planners don't understand it. So sad that breaucrats control that which they don't understand. Looks like I'm
moving to Mexico. I know, I'll become a "paracadista". Eleven million Mexicans can't be wrong. Right?
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chuckie
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Straw WILL burn and often combusts itself if baled damp and stacked deep. IT IS very hard to ignite in bale form by itself. Range fires in wheat
stubble are pretty scary. I never found time to go ask permission to do something on my own ground, so we tried a lot of stuff. 
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Paco Facullo
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What do I know ? I'm just a City/Beach boy......
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chuckie
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No problem dude....
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