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["John Schinnerer" <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> I'd sure look at concrete reinforcing wire for some of these
> applications  ya'll are describing.

What kind of wire are you referring to, Mark?  The thicker, larger-mesh
(6" square, etc.) kind used for reinforcing slab pours and so on?  Or...?

> I agree with Kirby that the chicken
> wire, made of  two metals and thin, seems a little out of place.

Thin and many is good, for ferrocement - it's the fine matrix of embedded
tensile fibers (e.g. metal mesh, lath, etc. in most cases) that gives it
strength and rigidity.  FC is a different combination of materials with
different properties than 'civil-engineering-style' steel-concrete (slabs,
bridges, beams, pilings, steps, etc. etc. )


John Schinnerer, MA
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