[Cob] cobbing pics

[phil]

I would certainly try and join my wall lifts together as best as I could. If you have given yourself a good key to tie the next lift to then you can feel fairly certain that the wall won't shift but I would rather be certain that my lifts were tied together with straw joining them as close as possible. I even go to the trouble of "stitching" my lifts together by sewing with long straw and a good long "needle." That way I know I pushed straw from one layer into the next.





Phil



I'm wondering what the people with experience out there feel about using"cobber's thumbs" or some other implement to weave the wall together. If youare not in an earthquake zone is this necessary?I would think if you leave the top of each course rough and bumpy the layerswould hold together as long as you were going vertically and not doing anarch or whatnot.Congrats Fran on actually starting your project... I'm still in the dreamingstages.EdwardOn 8/30/07, fran <fran2000a1 at yahoo.com> wrote:>>> It's going slowly, but only because of my physical> limitations.  I'm having fun, but wonderlng of course if> I'm doing the actual cobbing the right way. Making a> special effort to join each cob to the previous day's work.>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"Big Business and State Socialism are verymuch alike, especially Big Business."-- G.K. Chesterton++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++_______________________________________________Coblist mailing 
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