[Cob] Fwd: water supply

[Jim]

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From: Jim <santakunz at gmail.com>
Date: Jan 1, 2008 4:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Cob] water supply
To: Wilderness Voice <thewildernessvoice at yahoo.com>


*A Hydraulic Ram Pump might work... *

http://www.clemson.edu/irrig/Equip/ram4.htm

 On 12/31/07, Wilderness Voice <thewildernessvoice at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> Our property is about 90ft wide and about 400ft long, the long end
> terminates in a large creek and so we need to pump water from the creek
> about 300ft with about a 20ft elevation. Anyone have any ideas on how to do
> this? or any forum that might give us some ideas? We have tried Backwoods
> Solar, but pumping water is outside their experience other than pumping it
> out of a well.
> thanks
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> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 13:15:52 -0800
> From: Ocean Liff-Anderson <ocean at woodfiredeatery.com >
> Subject: Re: [Cob] corvallis cob cottage update
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> Sad story, Sarah!  Crazy how much it would "cost" to make the cob
> habitable by code standards.
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> My suggestion for the structure would be to designate it a "studio",
> not to be habited and thus not needing insulation, wiring, plumbing,
> etc.  But then it could be finished and remain a beautiful structure
> and an example of cob building...
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> Ocean
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> On Dec 29, 2007, at 5:53 PM, Sarah Booth wrote:
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> > It's been a long time since I've updated this group on my husband
> > and my cob cottage building project in Corvallis Oregon.  The re-
> > cap; fall 2005-fall 2006 we spent building the walls of a sweet 200
> > (interior) square foot cob cottage which we intended to live in
> > discreetly not wanting to deal with trying to educate the city and
> > push through a permit.  October 2006, someone turned us in and we
> > started dealing with the city.  After a year of researching the
> > issues and talking to a friendly local engineer, we made pretty
> > good head way.  One of the seemingly most daunting issues between
> > us and the city was insulation value, as the codes state that the
> > walls have to have a minimum value which typical cob walls do not
> > have.  Just a couple of weeks ago, our engineer was talking to the
> > city and together they determined that we could make up for the
> > lack of insulation in the walls by adding enough to the floor and
> > ceiling!  This was BIG news, one of our main issues solved!  Well,
> > as !
> >  things are now, we can only hope that this head way we made will
> > be taken advantage of by someone else wanting to build with cob in
> > Corvallis, Oregon.  The owners of the property we have been
> > building on have determined, after researching the cost of bringing
> > all utilities to the structure and paying for all applicable fees
> > and permits, the structure will cost about $35,000 which is about
> > $20,000 more than they expected and out of their price range.  So,
> > after all this, we won't be persuing a permit for a habitable cob
> > cottage.  We will hopefully be finishing the structure as a shed or
> > out building (or possibly uncovering it and letting the Oregon
> > rains take their coarse), we just need to convince the property
> > owners that they want to keep this lovely little cob cottage on
> > their property even if they can't use it to share their land with
> > another home and family as they had desired.  So, from you I am
> > asking for ideas, brain storms (and no ideas are bad in a brain
> > storm).  W!
> >  hat would you do if you had the walls of a cob structure in your
> back
> > yard (on 1/2 acre, in the city).  How would you use this, what
> > opportunities are we not seeing?  Thanks for the input!  Sarah Booth
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