[Cob] roto-cob

[Robert Alcock]

Hi Pavel

That's a rotavator (rototiller), and yes, this is a very effective way 
of mixing cob. About 20-50 times faster than the tarps method. It'll 
chuck the rocks out of the soil, too. You have to take care not to get 
the straw mixed around the tines -- mix wet, spray the tines with a hose 
and add the straw last of all.

good luck!

Robert
www.abrazohouse.org

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> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 16:37:38 +0200
> From: Pavel Velikodvorsky <willyns59 at gmail.com>
> Cc: coblist at deatech.com
> Subject: Re: [Cob] interview about cob self-build
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> Hello to all!
> Thanks Robert for the link to the interview. Hope i'm doing right by
> answering to this email to keep converstaion.
> I got interested in the picture with the caprion Another way of mixing cob
> in this article. There is the guy mixing the cob using this moto-thing (i
> don't know how it called right)
> Does anyone know how effective is this? There is a huge amount of cob to
> make in front of me this summer and I didn't come to any conclusion how to
> do it fast and effective - in meaning of good quality of cob.
> So far I used the cement mixer for my little cob shed, but for the main
> house even this won't be that fast as needed. Can anyone share their
> expirience in mixing huge amounts of cob?
> I tried to mix it in the pit with the tracktor, but we have such a rocky
> soil here, so all rocks were in the cob and it wasn't that good.
>
> Regards,
> Pavel
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> On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Robert Alcock <ralcock at euskalnet.net>wrote:
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>> Hi all
>> You might like to check out, just posted today, an interview about the
>> house project with Rob Hopkins of Transition Towns.
>> https://www.transitionnetwork.org/blogs/rob-hopkins/2014-01/
>> can-earth-building-scale-mainstream-3-robert-alcock-power-keeping-it-small
>> cheers
>> Robert
>> http://www.abrazohouse.org
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