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Cob: Re: Light clayPatrick Newberry goshawk at gnat.netFri Jul 30 22:34:04 CDT 1999
Well I'm in the process of moving and I'm even more disorganize than usual, so I can't refer to my books, but the name begins with an "L" lienstenstein (I realize that was a horrible attempt) anyway, The one time I used it this is how I did it: I took two sheets of plywood and using a sliding frame on each side, I would take a bale of straw, mix a milk shake type mixture of clay slip and pour it over the opened bale. This all occurred on a tarp very much like making cob, only more straw and less clay (and runnier). Then I'd fill up the wall space bounded by the two sheets of plywood. when I got near the top of the plywood (4 ft). I'd move it up 2 ft, then continuing up the wall. I found there is a limit to how far one can span before there must be stablizing factor such as a pole in a pole building. When I first tried this I used it more like a strawbale wall but had a couple of walls leaning becuase of lack of support. I added a bit more support (more poles in my case) and it worked fine. Pat http://www.gnat.net/~goshawk > OK... either the coblist has gone dead quiet or I have been > unsubscribed somehow... anyone have info on where to get info on the > old light clay bit (is it the same as the German method I can't > remember or hope to spell?)? Thanks much!
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