initial rural range test

[Gordon Apple]

> The reason I brought it up was that it was that many houses in New
> Mexico are built using the same methods that were in use for hundreds
> of years. I think that the addition of chicken wire has been going on
> since at least the 1940's to keep the outer adobe from falling off
> during freezes and such. I alos noticed in a video of some schools
> being built in the Pakistan/Afghanistan regions that they were doing
> something similar if the building wasnt being built out of concrete
> blocks.
> 

    Having only moved out of Southern California recently after living there
about 30 years, I seem to remember that stucco homes there have similar
construction, with mesh wire, but over wood frame.


-- 
G. Gordon Apple, PhD
Ed4U
Little Rock, AR
ga at ed4u.com