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Cob: Re: Cob Re:Otherfish at aol.com Otherfish at aol.comTue Jun 8 23:09:54 CDT 1999
To Paul Salas SANCO Enterprises, LLC Albuq. NM and all else interested Paul, good to hear of your success with the pump - when you say " butter & a 16" height" does that mean that you could use you pump to move cob from a mixer to a wall in a plastic state that would be buildable with? Could you use the pumped output to form a series of courses wall on a perhaps 12" to 18" wide wall with a course depth of 16"? That would be really significant for building with cob. Also , how do you mix your material? Do you have straw in your mix. , If not, would your mixer work to include straw & result with an essentially "firm yet plastic" consistency to the output ( as in the consistency that cob is normally made? Would like to know more about your research into mixers & etc. as this is a real issue for effective production of cob to will be competitive with standard methods of construction - got to find a way to get the labor content reduced WAY LOWER than what it is with currently available techniques. Regards John Fordice The Cob Code Project otherfish at aol.com
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