[Cob] bobcat vs rototiller

[Pavel Velikodvorsky]

Hello!
Thanks for your sharing guys!
What i mean by huge amounts is this:
during the summer, uisng concrete mixer for mixing the clay\sand\water,
dumping this mixture to the pit and stomping the straw in it we, with 2
helpers could make like 1-1,2 m3 a day with applying it on the wall. We
were doing it "freehand", let's say canonical :) as Ianto Evans teaches us
in his book.
Now, for this season i will use forms made of OSB - and since this project
much bigger than my small cob shed I need to produce amounts way bigger
than 1m3 a day. As I could calculate i will need 80+ m3 of cob for the
walls. (!!)
As I see it, I will mix with the bobcat\rototiller whole day, keep it aside
and put in forms as fast as it possible in regard of drying.

Cheers!
Pavel


On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 4:19 PM, dhowell at pickensprogressonline.com <
dhowell at pickensprogressonline.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the reading, just wanted to let you know that my experience
> with the rototiller didn't fare so well because I wasn't mixing enough,
> just experimenting and didn't want to waste material. I had a bobcat,
> borrowed from a neighbor, over for moving rocks so I just went ahead and
> tried mixing cob with it and it worked great. I have thought if I done a
> larger amount of cob then the rototiller would work better. But the point
> was how fast and easy it was to use the bobcat, not how much it costed,
> because, believe me, I don't have much money!
>
> Damon
>
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2014, at 9:23 PM, Henry Raduazo <raduazo at cox.net> wrote:
>
> > What do you mean by Huge amounts? I can easily do 5 wheelbarrows of sand
> and 5 wheelbarrows of clay (2000 pounds) mixed and put on the wall in one
> day with one assistant using a 5 Hp front tine rototiller and mixing on a
> concrete slab. I have also used the rototiller mix and mine clay while
> building water harvesting trenches which are filled with brush and wood
> chips.
> >       I suppose it is nice if you can afford a bobcat, but a used tiller
> can be had for $200.00.
>
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