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Cob: Clay or silt?Banks fbanks at theriver.comSat Nov 9 01:42:59 PST 2002
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C28799.B732C8E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sounds like that grey stuff has a lot of silt. I was fooled by silt, = too. It was so sticky (on shoes, tires, etc.) it 'had' to be clay but = it made crumbly bricks even with lots of straw. Bad stuff. Easily = eroded. Good clay will dry nice & hard even in a thin block. Joy ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C28799.B732C8E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dwindows-1252"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>Sounds like that grey stuff has a lot of silt. I was fooled = by silt,=20 too. It was so sticky (on shoes, tires, etc.) it 'had' to be clay = but it=20 made crumbly bricks even with lots of straw. Bad stuff. = Easily=20 eroded. Good clay will dry nice & hard even in a thin = block.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Joy</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_003D_01C28799.B732C8E0--
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