Cob Re: building with care was : A suggestion for superadobe "tents

[goshawk at gnat.net]

  Based on your experience, how does
> the rest of the "tent" sound?  Do-able?  Effective?
>    Thanks, and be well!
> Michael Blate
> 
Based on my experience....well at the momement I'm still redoing the 
one sections that fell and I realized something. 
I am  being soooooo carefull now. 
By studing the failure I experienced I learned a lot but now 
that that I'm rebuilding the thing (with a redesign as well) I am a 
bit more conservative about stuctures. In fact I don't plan to have 
to rebuild any part of this building again.  I go ahead and put that 
extra buttress etc. 
 So just reading your description made me think 
of pyramids (same kind of thing, just not as many sides as your 
octagon shape) so based on that I would say it has a good chance. 
But just keep your eye on the thing as you build. With a bit of 
analysis you can tell if a  structure is going to stand and where the 
weak points are located. 

by the way, 
I'm leaving Saturday to head up to Colorado to climb Mt Holy cross. 
I'll be back on Thursday of next week. 

But I'll down load all the messages when I get back. 

Latter

Mountain climbers always rope themsselves together,
Probably to prevent the sensible ones from going home.