Peter Nelly

Hi!

I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with "work shifting"?

Like, I help Arnold hauling some heavy timbers for five hours, and he helps me with something else for six hours.
Now I owe him one hour for future use?

I don't know what the real term might be, English is not my native language.
Hell, i don't even know what it might be called in Swedish.

/Peter

The word is to wait a year to let the waxy outer layer of the straw wither away, letting the plaster
get stuck better.
As for moisture content, the farmer won't bale it wet, or it would go bad for him. Work wasted. Our neighbour just waits a bit longer
if it gets rained upon to let it dry out again before baling.
He says he prefers that straw, since it sucks up the piss of the pigs better.

Weight I feel is difficult to use for a moisture estimate.
Some bales were heavier than others when we built our house. When looking at the structure of the bales these just had finer straws.

/Peter

From what I've read on the topic, about two cm depth of the wall is involved in a 24 hr heat cycle.
If that is the case a heavy plaster should make a difference indeed.

Common practice around here when building a straw bale house is 4-5 cm thick clay plaster on the inside.
Should make a difference.
Sure hope so anyway, otherwise we're doing a whole lot of work for nothing...

/Peter