Cob Fibro Cement- !!Wood CHips Ahoy!!

[Juan C. Bobeda]

Has anybody tried rice hulls? Rice hulls are small (short) and fibrous,
and can be easily mixed in a standard concrete mixer.

Juan C. Bobeda

Otherfish at aol.com wrote:
> 
>  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