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  • From: Dick Fischbeck <dick_fischbeck AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] metal homes
  • Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:09:07 -0800 (PST)


> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>

> >I was hoping to find people here exploring alternatives to the tried and
> >true. The idea is, can
> >we use our current industrial capabilities to mass produce ultra-low-cost,
> >air-deliverable
> >shelters suited for many climatic regions. That's what I'm asking. I'm
> >talking about McShelter.
> >What do we have now?
>
> Go back to the Fuller links. His idea was a metal house that would arrive
> on site on a single flat bed trailer which in his time would be about
> 15,000#. Everything on the trailer would be used including the shipping
> container, the trailer would leave empty with no scrap left behind.
>
> His early ideas that were to become temporary military housing during WW
> II. He used ideas from the Butler steel grain bins of the time. His later
> ideas used materials and techniques developed by the aircraft industry
> during WW II. Who knows what ideas could be developed with modern
> materials and techniques.

I am very glad to see this last sentence, Don. "Who knows" is the best
question I've heard since
the tsunami.



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