Objectives:
- health and safety regulations ( fire hazard, dust, slipping)
- how to handle, divide and shape straw bales
- appropriate tools
- advantages and disadvantages of different types of twine
- appropriate ways of tying straw bales (knots)
Method:
- testing and customizing straw bales
Practice:
- plan the supply of materials
- use the bale in the correct orientation
- measure the bales
- adjust the shape of the bale and square off the ends
- divide and restring the bale
- cut and notch the bale
- calculate the density of bale
- assess moisture in the bale of straw
- work with the cut and folded side of the bale
- use the tools for handling and transforming straw bales
- keep the bales dry and well ventilated during storage
Materials/Documents: U1 S3 – Session Plan
Training Time: 1 day
