Cob: Builders with disabilities

[Amanda Peck]

Buck wants thought about builders with disabilities, namely good upper body 
strength, in a wheelchair.

The really daunting thing about many of the "natural building" techniques is 
how slow they are.  So EVERYBODY does them, if possible, as a group process. 
  What we all need to do is take a workshop, give us a better idea of how 
our strengths and weaknesses mesh with the process.

Could you (or someone like me who hates heights) work off a scaffold ten 
feet off the ground packing cob?

Is there a tractor that you can drive?

Could you mix cob with your chair--one that can get muddy beyond belief?  
Send loads up to the scaffold with a slanted conveyor belt?  Organize other 
people into teams and jobs?  Carve off big bulges in the cob?

How are you at making stone walls to use as stem walls?  Strength is 
important here, but so is your eye for what stone goes where. and experience 
helps, I'm told.

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