Consumption and Real Estate
Straw Bale Construction Home Video Teaching
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#5 written by kakudmi 1 year ago
While your logic is reasonable, we are still living in a world governed by profit and power interests. With all the technology and knowledge we have today, no one should be poor or hungry. So, the point is, if you see something as good as the straw bale construction, you should try it for yourself and don’t expect gov. and media to propagate this. There’s no profit in natural, ecological and sustainable life-style. We have to pioneer it. I am starting next year.
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#6 written by darkherokaze 1 year ago
Steps for causing a fire in a hayloft/barn.
1. Store damp hay bales
2. Mold grows.
3. Bales get hot, growth of mold generates heat.
4. Bales provide good insulation, allowing heat to build up and catch fire.
5. Rest of bales catch fire. Hayloft burns up and burns down the rest of the barn with it.The good news is these builders use OLD bales. If they were going to get moldy, it would happen well before 1 year passes and they focus on using old bales that are worth little or nothing to farmr
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#7 written by darkherokaze 1 year ago
It might still be a possible danger if the bales were to get wet later. Although I don’t think straw that is old would be as good of food for mold as fresh straw, so risk would be reduced. Hay more than a year old is bad cow-food.
I’m not a builder of these homes, just grew up on a dairy farm and was told what happens and why wet hay cannot be kept.
These videos seem to always take place in dry areas. Places where straw/hay isn’t grown. Dryer is safer, but I guess it could work anywhere.
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#8 written by HISandman 1 year ago
as long as you can keep the straw dry it will last forever.
The Straw is sealed by the cement or adobe making it weather resistant.
Ideal in dry climates but look at any thatched roof in Europe and ask again if this is for a third world country..this is possible for anyone to do.. it’s just “out of the box” thinking revisited.
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#12 written by illtrax 1 year ago
The wood frame would be your support. The straw is just replacing brick, insolation, and drywall. You can build whatever you want. This is an ancient technique. Houses in the Mediterranean are built the same way except they make a concret frame then fill in the walls with lightweight brink and plaster. Straw would make the houses here too warm.
Nice vid.
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#16 written by jameslikesstuf 1 year ago
its not hay bales is straw bales, theres a difference here. straw generally is the dead stalks of some kind of crop, and is entirely dry allready when compressed into bales. hay bales are usually made from long grass that has been cut down green, dries for a couple of days and then bailed, and usually still has a moisture content. building ya straw bail house with freshy bailed hay would be a rathe rsilly idea, but building with straw poses no danger at all providing the are not damp.
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#19 written by jameslikesstuf 1 year ago
it really depends how dry the hay bales are, generally when bales are stcked, they are still a little damp, which is how some hay shed fires start, i agree hay is expensive, i will be building with straw when i build. (also hay is much messier as the strands of grass withing are much finer) i would be interested to see photos of some of these older straw bale constructions in nebraska, as i have read a bit about them.
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#20 written by starkneked 1 year ago
Hay also has seeds and other things of nutritional value, which is conducive of things like insects and rodents finding them tasty. We put our hay up on the very dry side in these parts, just enough moisture to keep the leaves and heads on. I’ve never put it up with a moisture level high enough to promote mold or fermenting (heating). I’ve read that when those homes in NE were cut into to add an addition, the horses ate it like candy. This stuff was put up with horses and a stationary baler!
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#22 written by starkneked 1 year ago
I believe I read about the homes in NE in THE STRAW BALE HOUSE by Steen, Steen and Bainbridge. That part of NE isn’t too far from where I live. I’m sure prairie grass is all they had for hay at the time. It’d be a hell of a lot faster than sod, which is in short supply there. It’s all sand! A good well is only 10′ deep!
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#23 written by jameslikesstuf 1 year ago
true about seeds and rodents. where i am form sometimes the hay has to be baled early, as weatehr is not always so freindly for baling, and such is sometimes bailed rather “green” ive seen one of those stationary balers in action, and t woulda have been alot more work to do a straw house back then than it is now. understanbly a lot easier and cheaper than finding and transporting sparse and labour intensive timber.
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But I don’t refer about just self support. What I mean is that you can’t add a perpendicular support to the roof or to a next floor direct in the straw bale. You need to add those things it to the “skeleton” structure and not direct into the straw bale. Straw bale are filler and isolator, but not structure itself.