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Tim Pye, Cornville, AZ, with his newspaper stash. Newspaper publishing companies bundle up their unsold copies and give them away. |
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Shorty Inderdahl, Salem, NM, with papercrete blocks. |
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Shorty Inderdahl shows Laura Solberg and Greg Jay his 10-foot-long papercrete "logs." |
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Shorty Inderdahl with papercrete blocks. |
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Ian Sands with the dome form. The form is 9 feet long, and the tapered blocks constitute one "section" of the dome. There are 16 sections to this dome design |
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Eric Patterson stands next to a pile of paper blocks made from print shop waste. His blocks contain only paper and cement. Each block contains about 1/4 shovelful of cement. |
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Sean Sands' in front of a wall of blocks drying in the sun, holds a finished block with one hand to show how light it is. Each block here weighs about 15 pounds, and contains 10¢ worth of cement, all other ingredients are free. |
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Paper Adobe Block Factory, these blocks are dry enough to have the forms removed for re-use. |
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Another view of block factory. |
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Mike McCain's steel drag form removal. |
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Mike McCain's "Jumbo Block" is 4 feet long, 2 feet hight, and 1 foot thick. These take several weeks to cure, but then they can be handled by two people, and a wall can go up very quickly. They are keyed at the ends so that mortar can be packed tightly in between adjacent blocks, making for a very strong joint. |
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Greg Day holds 8-foot papercrete "log" to show how light it is. |
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Blocks drying. |
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Travis Coffey's12x12x24" blocks from his hydraulic mixer, have an insulating value between R40 and R50, and weigh about 40-50 pounds. The holes are from the hydraulic press cylinder shafts. |
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Tansporting blocks via a flatbed pickup. |
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