Cob COVER MY CLAY OR NOT??? (fwd)

[LUKE STANSON]

>From: "Patrick Newberry" <goshawk at gnat.net>
>To: coblist at deatech.com
>Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 07:11:10 +0000
>Subject: Re: Cob COVER MY CLAY OR NOT??? (fwd)
>Reply-To: coblist at deatech.com
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>Luke:
> I have noticed the shrinking on my clay piles as well, but not the 
>1/3 volume you have indicated. It during heavy rains it won't hurt to 
>cover it. I like it when it rains gently and keep the mixture  moist 
>so I don't have to add water. Part of that 1/3 might be compression 
>combined with some washing away. Plus my "mixture" is only about 30 
>percent clay with the rest being sand thus the may have helped keep 
>it from washing away as rapidly vs pure sand. 
>
>So cover during heavy rains but try to keep the pile moist.

>Pat I hope this letter finds you well.  The problem is that the wet 
clay does not at all mix well with water---but if one drys it first and 
then re-wets it, it then becomes a very easy matter.

>Pat
>Mauk,
>http://www.gnat.net/~goshawk
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>> Date:          Mon, 1 Jun 1998 02:00:57 -0700 (PDT)
>> From:          LUKE STANSON <luketheeduke at hotmail.com>
>> To:            coblist at deatech.com
>> Subject:       Cob COVER MY CLAY OR NOT??? (fwd)
>> Reply-to:      coblist at deatech.com
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>> 
>> I have 200 yards of a pretty gray and sticky clay for my hopeful 
future 
>> cob home.  I have covered it in fears of the rains washing it away.  
It 
>> seems that if it drys out--- then get wet, it turns to mush and seems 
to 
>> be shinking away. It now looks to be about 2/3rds the size.  Should I 
>> cover my clay of not???
>> 
>> Thanks in advance! Your friend Luke.
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Thanks in advance! Your friend Luke.
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