Cob:

[David & Sheila Knapp]

We also have 17 members on our Building with Earth Web Ring, however no real
Cob sites yet (although we are hoping for some sites that show building
their own cob home) ...

http://d.webring.com/hub?ring=earthships

----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Peck" <ap615 at hotmail.com>
To: <writejill1 at cox.net>; <coblist at deatech.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2003 11:27 AM
Subject: Re: Cob:


> Thanks for the links. I found David and Sheila Knapp's home page on
> Geocities.  Got no hits for the Mud Spaces and Spirit book.  It sounds
like
> it would be interesting.  The Build Your Own Adobe book is quite useful no
> matter what you are building.  Especially if it's in the library.
>
> Rural Tennessee has not much in the way of codes.  Just the electrical
> inspection/septic tank requirement.  Not sure which counties are included,
> but Wayne, Lewis, Hickman are.  NOT Davidson and surrounding, almost
> certainly NOT Shelby and surrounding.
>
> But you need to know if you will be able to stand any area you move to
> before you invest a lot of money and psychic capital to move there.  I'm
in
> northern Wayne county, 30 miles from a large supermarket, 10 miles from a
> cup of coffee (actually maybe less, there's a bar a little closer), 50
miles
> from a real bookstore.  I know of 2 people with PhD's in the county, one
> retired, one a woodworker.  There may well be a couple more, in fact I
know
> a third one building a house.  One of the Internet Service Providers is
run
> by a biker who hated not having internet access.  There's a small
> intentional community 10 miles away (home of the woodworker PhD).
>
> My nearest neighbors bought their land, had the shell of a frame cottage
put
> up before they realized that electric service would run quite a bit more
> than their house.  And they had nothing in the way of guarantee of water
> (rumor hath it that the areas right beside the rivers are poor candidates
> for wells).  That's probably fixable, with rainwater catchment, but they
are
> at the bottom of a really steep north-facing slope.  But they can walk
down
> to the river all on their land.
>
> When I broke my leg a year and a half ago (not, blessedly, a bad break), I
> drove myself into town to the doctor's office.  She wasn't there, but the
> staff sent me over to the hospital--I walked--for x-rays.  They did use a
> wheelchair to take me back to my truck, sending me roughly 50 miles to
> Columbia to the orthopedists.  I walked into that office too.
>
> That's the kind of isolation you are likely to end up with if you move to
> deep country with the kind of no-zoning regulations you are thinking you
> want.  You do need to ask yourselves, is this a good trade-off, or would
we
> be happier trying to build in a more settled area and keep sending all the
> engineering papers we can find to the local planning people?
>
>
>
>
> Jill mentions some books, wonders (I've snipped some here) if we've looked
> at the index at http://geocities.yahoo.com/
> I am considering take a few classes via the web at
> http://www.sfia.net/index.asp Has anyone else taken any traditional type
> classes? Architecture is a passion of mine - from a distance. This is my
> first hands on or training at any of this. I am glad to find this like
mind
> list - at least similar in cob, if not other life views. :)