Cob: Jelly Roll Cord Log Masonery

[Darel Henman]

Ah, this makes sense.  It would achieve a round compressed earth
brick/pole.

But, unlike dry paper which is well behaved in a machine like mentioned
below you'd have problems with the soil mix squirting out the two
sides.  Like biting into a juicy sandwich with hard bread, it would gush
out.  So you'd need a wrapper on the outside to keep the form and also
on the ends.  Also the material should be a hemp or other natural
materal that gets along with earth well.  These could be used like
coordwood with a daub mortar, I suppose.  But, I myself think the normal
CEB would be easier to manufacture.

My own 2 cents.

Keep the ideas flowing.

Darel 

RobertCCardwell at aol.com wrote:
> 
> I remember years ago there was a gadget for making paper logs out of
> newspaper. You would crank it would roll and compress the newspaper into a
> log.  You could then burn these logs in the fire place supposely.  I remember
> picking one up and it did feel pretty dense and heavy.   Boy if if could only
> find one of those machines.
> 
> I am going to try some experiments and I will post the results.
> 
> Rambling on......
> 
> BC