[Cob] cob stables

[Dorothy Bothne]

Andy,
I have a small cob building that I use as a seed starting greenhouse in one area and store my saddles and animal feed in another.   One wall faces the pasture and stable area where the horses have access to the building.  other than one incident where my colt pushed the screen in from the open window (out of curiosity) we haven't had any problems with the horses bothering the building or chewing on the cob walls.  The small building was previously used as a chicken coop, the problem with animals inside the cob building is that it's difficult to clean poop off of the cob walls (which is why we moved the chickens out.  
The little building is pretty strong, my husband ran into the wall with a tractor and took a small chunk out, cosmetic damage only, easy to repair, no structural problems.
Had a small twister pass through the back of our property once, it flipped the neighbors storage shed into our property, only damage to the cob building was some of the plaster stripped off.
Dorothy


> >Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 17:29:18 +0100
> >From: Andy Dunn - Luibh <andy at luibh.ie>
> >Subject: [Cob] cob walls for stables
> >To: coblist at deatech.com

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> >Hi there,
> >
> >We're planning on building a few stables hopefully over
> the next few
> >months, and are going to use cob in some form. One of
> the questions we
> >have is whether cob on its own (with lime plaster),
> would be strong
> >enough to withstand horses kicks, or if we should
> include some
> >powdered lime to the mix to make it even stronger.
> >
> >There is a great tradition of building with cob in this
> local area, as
> >many of the old cottages are built from the grey/yellow
> 'daub' in the
> >ground, which unfortunately makes bad quality land for
> farming but
> >great for building.
> >
> >Im quite a purist and would ideally just use
> clay/sand/straw but my
> >wife is concerned that wouldn't be enough to withstand
> a full kick
> >from a large horse.
> >
> >Any advice much appreciated.
> >
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