[nbc] Re: Cob: bicycle powered cob mixer

[Buddy Franklin]

Now here is someone with the right frame of mind and attitude you took the
thoughts right out of my head. Glad to know there is someone else out there
that is trying to think outside the box, if all words of wisdom could be as
short and sweet. keep on thinking.    Knox Franklin

-----Original Message-----
From: David Knowlton [mailto:pilot1ab80 at hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 9:01 AM
To: buffalokiller at hotmail.com; pferbel at yahoo.com;
brookdancer at hotmail.com; ocean at peacemaking.org; jmygann at yahoo.com;
coblist at deatech.com; nbc at lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [nbc] Re: Cob: bicycle powered cob mixer


if man were meant to fly he would have been given wings - famous words that 
eventually were eaten.

study the aspects of cob mixing that must be accomplished. don't get stuck 
in the cement mixer paradigm. develop a machine that stomps the cob like 
feet - or the machine equivalent of feet. invent a cob mixer and you might 
speed the acceptance of cob and save more trees. keep searching! oh hell - 
and make some money at it too!


>From: "brian besold" <buffalokiller at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "brian besold" <buffalokiller at hotmail.com>
>To: pferbel at yahoo.com, brookdancer at hotmail.com, ocean at peacemaking.org, 
>jmygann at yahoo.com, coblist at deatech.com, nbc at lists.riseup.net
>Subject: Re: [nbc] Re: Cob: bicycle powered cob mixer
>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:58:20
>
>   Change is constant. It is for this reason alone that the search
>continues, that questions must be asked. Maybe those opposed to my idea are
>right. And if you are, we can look together, and learn together, at the
>mistakes that will be made. Maybe it will work, and again, we can look and
>learn. Either way, it is the process of inquiry: asking questions, carrying
>out experiments, the willingness to make mistakes that is ultimately
>necessary.
>   Have we figured it all out already? Is cob best mixed with foot power? 
>As
>Pedro has pointed out, there are any number of factors that need to be
>addressed, not just regarding cob building, but the entire design/build
>process. No, I don't know everything about mixing cob, but how can anyone
>say that they do. Change is constant. I'm so sorry that the masculine
>minority feels the need to remind me of place in the cob heirarchy, to 
>knock
>me down. This attitude is so destructive, and not just to those who are
>pushed, but to the pusher, humanity, and our planet as well. I have a habit
>of looking at the deeper meaning in things, but that is because I like
>asking questions.  Reminder: learn from your students. What have you to 
>gain
>once you've figured everything out? Thank you to all of you in support of
>this, and thank you to the person who sent the great suggestions regarding
>paddle mixers. Believe in the power of many. Brian.
>
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