[Strawbale] Re: [Strawbale] Homemade baler box

[m.ep]

Hi Chug, Han and others,

Indeed we did make our own bales by hand and feet in India. We 
were happy with the results. See our website and The Last Straw 
#30.

Handles and levers do give more compression, but are extreemly 
time consuming since the straw needs to be compacted everytime 
you add a little.

Feel free to ask more questions, I should be back online in a 
week or so.

Bale on,
Andre


> op 11-11-2002 11:26 schreef chug. op chug at strawbale-
building.co.uk:
> 
> Greetings Bale believers,
> can anyone help? I have seen a picture on a website somewhere 
of a homemade
> baling box with a long arm which people hung on to comprees 
the straw into
> bales, but I cannot seem to remember or find the site where I 
saw this.
> Regards Chug.
>  
> P.S Keep spreading the word!
>  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> chug at strawbale-building....uk
> http://www.strawbale-building.co.uk/
> 
> 
> Hello Chug,
> 
> I happened to see that picture too, only two days ago at a 
straw bale
> builders' meeting at Cai's and Jolien's place in Amsterdam. 
André de Bouter
> showed a lot of slides from all over the world at that 
occasion. A number of
> them were about a project somewhere in India, where till then 
the straw bale
> was an unknown phenomenom. André built a hand-and-foot 
powered straw bale
> press that finally produced fine bales. André figured out 
that hanging
> people to a long arm in order to compress the bales did not 
lead to a better
> bale quality than compressing the straw by feet. That's all I 
know about it.
> For more information you'd better contact André himself: 
m.ep at laposte...
> Perhaps you'll find more at his beautiful website,
> www.la-maison-en-paille.com
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Han van Drunen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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