Re: [Strawbale] Homemade baler box

[han van drunen <han@degroenestee...>]

Title: Re: [Strawbale] Homemade baler box

op 11-11-2002 11:26 schreef chug. op chug@strawbale-building....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.
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> P.S Keep spreading the word!
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> chug@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@laposte... 
Perhaps you'll find more at his beautiful website, www.la-maison-en-paille.com

Regards,

Han van Drunen