[nbc] Re: Cob: bicycle powered cob mixer

[David Knowlton]

if man were meant to fly he would have been given wings - famous words that 
eventually were eaten.

study the aspects of cob mixing that must be accomplished. don't get stuck 
in the cement mixer paradigm. develop a machine that stomps the cob like 
feet - or the machine equivalent of feet. invent a cob mixer and you might 
speed the acceptance of cob and save more trees. keep searching! oh hell - 
and make some money at it too!


>From: "brian besold" <buffalokiller at hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "brian besold" <buffalokiller at hotmail.com>
>To: pferbel at yahoo.com, brookdancer at hotmail.com, ocean at peacemaking.org, 
>jmygann at yahoo.com, coblist at deatech.com, nbc at lists.riseup.net
>Subject: Re: [nbc] Re: Cob: bicycle powered cob mixer
>Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 17:58:20
>
>   Change is constant. It is for this reason alone that the search
>continues, that questions must be asked. Maybe those opposed to my idea are
>right. And if you are, we can look together, and learn together, at the
>mistakes that will be made. Maybe it will work, and again, we can look and
>learn. Either way, it is the process of inquiry: asking questions, carrying
>out experiments, the willingness to make mistakes that is ultimately
>necessary.
>   Have we figured it all out already? Is cob best mixed with foot power? 
>As
>Pedro has pointed out, there are any number of factors that need to be
>addressed, not just regarding cob building, but the entire design/build
>process. No, I don't know everything about mixing cob, but how can anyone
>say that they do. Change is constant. I'm so sorry that the masculine
>minority feels the need to remind me of place in the cob heirarchy, to 
>knock
>me down. This attitude is so destructive, and not just to those who are
>pushed, but to the pusher, humanity, and our planet as well. I have a habit
>of looking at the deeper meaning in things, but that is because I like
>asking questions.  Reminder: learn from your students. What have you to 
>gain
>once you've figured everything out? Thank you to all of you in support of
>this, and thank you to the person who sent the great suggestions regarding
>paddle mixers. Believe in the power of many. Brian.
>
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