Cob: sandy soil

[Scot Robinson]

Sara,

I am really curious as to how the cement mixer works,
if you use it.  I am going to start building a cob
home in the spring and thought of using a mixer to
help speed up the process slightly.  Please let me
know how it works out.

Does anyone else have experience with a mixer?  Does
it work well?

Scot

--- Sbay <Hi_eagle at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the info.
> I'm building it a 15 ft round with flat on one side
> for my windows.
> Sort of a half moon shape i guess.
> I'd like to do just a shed roof cuz it seems easiest
> we got lucky and got a bunch of windows free.  They
> are in great shape and all four have double pane
> windows in them that work!
> They are pretty big and so that's what determined
> the shape of the house plans.
> I'd like to have already gotten started because the
> weather has been so great here in Minnesota!!
> It's been so warm and wonderful out.
> I think it will take quite a while to dry however so
> I'm thinking I might need to build the roof first so
> we can move in with semi wet walls.
> It will be getting very very cold soooooon!
> 
> My clay that I had brought in gets extremely hard,
> not really crumbly at all.  Maybe I just got sandy
> clay??
> I was thinking of just using it with a very small
> amount of my sandy soil like 70%clay 30% soil and
> mixing with either a cement mixer or a bobcat.
> Anyone have experience with either?
> 
> Sara
> 
> 


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