Cob submissions

Wed May 12 22:53:27 CDT 1999

Is this the address for submissions to the coblist ?

I am a missionary in Honduras working with danificados, people who lost everything in the hurricane.
We are beginning to build houses out of adobe using a mechanical shaped brick press. Our house uses prefab metal roofing erected by gringos and walls built of local dirt by the people who will receive the houses.

Does this style of adobe satisfy requirements to be called cob ?  I didn't think so..

How do tropical insects like the inclusion of natural materials into brick making ?

We don't currently use anything but a clay based dirt, we don't need tensile strength because the bricks are made on site and inside a wall within a couple weeks of being manufactured.

We are short on experience, having begun building the first two models this week.  Any comments or questions from anyone would be invited. Send to dewing at missions4him.com   I reward writers with jpeg graphics files of beautiful tropical Honduras.

shovelin away
Don Ewing
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Is this the address for submissions to the coblist 
?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>I am a missionary in Honduras working with danificados, people 
who lost everything in the hurricane.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>We are beginning to build houses out of adobe using a 
mechanical shaped brick press. Our house uses prefab metal roofing erected by 
gringos and walls built of local dirt by the people who will receive the 
houses.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Does this style of adobe satisfy requirements to be called cob 
?  I didn't think so..</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>How do tropical insects like the inclusion of natural 
materials into brick making ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>We don't currently use anything but a clay based dirt, we 
don't need tensile strength because the bricks are made on site and inside a 
wall within a couple weeks of being manufactured.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>We are short on experience, having begun building the first 
two models this week.  Any comments or questions from anyone would be 
invited. Send to <A 
href="mailto:dewing at missions4him.com">dewing at missions4him.com</A>   I 
reward writers with jpeg graphics files of beautiful tropical 
Honduras.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>shovelin away</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>Don Ewing</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>

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