Cob: Re: Cob Re:

[Otherfish at aol.com]

To
Paul Salas
SANCO Enterprises, LLC
Albuq. NM

and all else interested

Paul, good to hear of your success with the pump - when you say " butter & a 
16" height"  does that mean that you could use you pump to move cob from a 
mixer to a wall in a plastic state that would be buildable with?  Could you 
use the pumped output to form a series of courses wall on a perhaps 12" to 
18" wide wall with a course depth of 16"?  That would be really significant 
for building with cob.  Also , how do you mix your material?  Do you have 
straw in your mix. , If not, would your mixer work to include straw & result 
with an essentially "firm yet plastic" consistency to the output ( as in the 
consistency that cob is normally made?

Would like to know more about your research into mixers & etc. as this is a 
real issue for effective production of cob to will be competitive with 
standard methods of construction - got to find a way to get the labor content 
reduced WAY LOWER than what it is with currently available techniques.

Regards
John Fordice
The Cob Code Project
otherfish at aol.com