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Anyone seen a sisal stripper?
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Anyone seen a sisal stripper?
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Alan Chadborn at the Design Centre, c/o WAM, PO Box 50, Katakwi, Uganda enquires 'about methods of treating sisal to protect it from rotting. The ropes made here traditionally by hand are mostly used for tethering animals whilst grazing. They get wet in dew and rain which soon makes them soft and rots them. Any chemical treatment here would have to be harmless to the skins of goats and cattle. The equipment needed is first for decorticating, or rather removing the soft cells from the fibre. This is currently done by pulling it between the person s heel and a metal edge such as a hoe. Secondly the fibres are rubbed between hand and leg to twist them into strings; these are then plaited into rope. In our workshop we are making a range of tools for carpenters, blacksmiths and farmers. Our aim is to teach blacksmiths to make tools to extend their rural business. If you can help me find plans or descriptions for the above tools, we could make some prototypes.' Alan Chadborn at the Design Centre, c/o WAM, PO Box 50, Katakwi, Uganda enquires 'about methods of treating sisal to protect it from rotting. The ropes made here traditionally by hand are mostly used for tethering animals whilst grazing. They get... |
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2001
2014-10-16T09:06:05Z 2014-10-16T09:06:05Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 2001. Anyone seen a sisal stripper?. Spore 95. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46338 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99598 |
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en
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Spore
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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