Cob: Horse Manure

[Bill&Julie]

*SMILES* X2  ,,,, Then there are the people in Africa, that use pure
cow manure to cover a wattle work frame. Now this isn't COB,
unless of course the cows eat corn....    :-)

*sniff* did I step in it???   bill

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shannon C. Dealy" <dealy at deatech.com>
To: "Darel Henman" <henman at it.to-be.co.jp>
Cc: <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: Cob: Horse Manure


> On Mon, 21 Jan 2002, Darel Henman wrote:
>
> [snip]
> >   The fellow I had talked to, had been involved with restoring historic
> > buildings back in England and though his particular specialty was in the
> > oak timber framing, he mentioned that where his from they would use
> > horse manure in their cob.
> >
> >   Is this a local custom?  Does this add the cob (daud)'s durability
> > and/or water strength?
> [snip]
>
> I hadn't previously (that I can recall) heard of anyone deliberately
> adding horse manure to cob (though from my experience with plasters I
> don't doubt it could be used to improve the mix), but for what it's
> worth, a traditional method of mixing cob was to use a horse on a
> turnstile going around in circles trodding on earth to which water and
> straw are added.  Given this traditional mixing method, manure is going to
> be a small but inevitable part of cob mixtures for many historic buildings
> :-)
>
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