Cob Fibro Cement- !!Wood CHips Ahoy!!

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 to Charmaine R. Taylor & other innovators
charmaine
thanks for the info re your experiments
have you tried the pulped palled material that hydroseeders use?
might be a possibility
- what about the swelling up of the wood fibers while they are wet?
- would like to hear more about your FC soggy  paper expiriments.
- i did a small test batch / brick of cob made with papermache pulp
- it made a very weather resistant cob  & the small amount i made dried out
with no problem
- if an easy way can be found to make a dry, friable ( loose individual fibers
)
pulp easily from old news papers this could possibly lead to a strong, weather
resistant cob that uses short fibers.  Such a short fiber cob could be mixed
with a standard  concrete mixer.  This seems to me to have some very far
reaching potentials
- please share some of your alt. fiber cob mixing research with the coblist!

tells us more!
thanks,
cob on