[Cob] cob stables

[rodger at inbox.com]

Lime could actually weaken the wall, interfering with the clay's binding.  Just go with a good clay soil that has lots of clay, some silt and fine sand... add mason's sand and straw and you'll have walls of hard pan... you'll have NO worries around a horse kicking it if it's more than 4 inches thick.

Rodger

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dbothne54 at yahoo.com
> Sent: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:33:36 -0700 (PDT)
> To: coblist at deatech.com
> Subject: Re: [Cob] cob stables
> 
> 
> 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
> 
>>> 
>> >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.
>>> 
>> >--
>> >Andy Dunn
>>> 
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