Cob: Quiet List

[Shannon C. Dealy]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Dog In The Yard wrote:

[snip]
> in contact with the ground. Two support logs, one at either end will have to be
> dug into the ground...so other than tamping stones around them for drainage, I
> don't know how to keep them from coming in contact with ground moisture.
> 
> If anyone has read this far :-)...can you tell me if I use boiled linseed oil on
> the poplar (they will be stripped of bark and allowed to dry over the winter),
> do you think that would help to preserve them a bit?
[snip]

If I remember correctly, in "The $50 and Up Underground House Book"
(I think that was the title), the author uses a technique where he
uses a fire to char the end of the log that is going to be set into the
ground, then wraps the end in plastic (garbage bags?) before setting it
into the ground.  I think he also set them in stones as you suggest, but
I'm not certain.

Given the description of what you are doing, you might try to get a look
at a copy of this book, since some of its ideas seem to me to be relevant
to what you are doing.

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