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straw bale foundation making

karl | 11.03.2006 14:31 | Ecology

A few photos showing a low inpact way of making foundations for a straw bale building.

tyres laid out

more tyres

collecting the clay onsite 1

collecting the clay onsite 2

collecting the clay onsite 3

collecting the clay onsite 4

ramming the tyres 1

ramming the tyres 2

almost finished tyre

finished tyre waiting for gravel

Photos showing volunteers at Ecoworks in Nottingham, building foundations for a straw bale building using old car tyres and clay.
The car tyres have their rims rammed with clay which will harden when fully dry. When this stage is finished the central area of the tyre is dug out so that no clay is left at its base. Then the central parts of the tyres are filled with stones / gravel for drainage.

karl

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Cool!

12.03.2006 21:58

Would anyone else like to see more on strawbale techniques?

More please!

13.03.2006 13:55

have been enjoying seeing the photo essays on sustainable building projects and techniques from notts - keep em coming :)

mike

yes please!

13.03.2006 14:14

would you post them on here, m?

zoe x

more please

13.03.2006 17:11

thanks for the positive comments and yes m, we would love to see more stuff like this on Indymedia.

karl

Great stuff!

13.03.2006 19:33

Great stuff! kep up the good work in Nottingham - do you want o post up some stuff on straw bale building plus the photos on the Permaculture wiki?

http://permaculture.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page

Graham Burnett
Homepage: http://www.spiralseed.co.uk

...

13.03.2006 23:33

Yeah cheers Karl.

If anyone knows of any similar actvities in Scotland, I'll happily grab my camera and cover it.

Sorry, about the ambiguity... it's Karl's post!

XXX

More natural building stuff

22.03.2006 22:47

You can see more of this at

http://naturalhomes.org where there are loads of courses in the UK

Oliver
mail e-mail: obswann@btinternet.com