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Old 11-10-11, 09:08 AM   #8
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Wow. Those folks are having some fun! I'd urge everyone to go have a look. opensourceecology.org.

I have a lot of clay about 4 feet down, so I'm tempted to try their technique. We have to deal with months of freezing temperatures here in the land of 45 degrees latitude ... and I wonder how long those bricks take to dry out. Neat site though. And nice to see some open source material. More detail would be appreciated (such as soil mix ratios etc) but that might be somewhere in the site I didn't get to. I always get a little twitchy when someone says, Oh they take a lot of weight, but not, good to x lbs per square inch based on a moisture content of y with a materials ratio of b. (not that I'm likely to spend an evening doing all the calculations, it's just nice to know )

TimJ that looks like a great material for your neck of the woods. Adding straw etc might make the bricks a little lighter/stronger too.
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