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Cob:Frances Grill grill at vtc.netSat Mar 29 08:32:42 CST 2003
Shannon is probablyr eady to pitch a fit as we digress from cob, but this horsehair thing is sort of interesting..sort of anti-tech. When I rennovated our 130 year old farm house, i opened the wall partitions to find old clay bricks used for insulation (thermal mass) they were muded roughly over with clay and straw mix which the mice loved.Recently, I nearly bought an old feed mixer at auction to chop cobs (corn, not straw clay) for insulation. I think it would be great insulation and non-toxic. I abhor working with fiberglass, it just "feels" unhealthy.Unfortunatly I live in the southwest where corn cobs are sorta rare. One might be able to get a load of cobs,chopped or whole from a feed mill if they live back east. Nothing but air and fiber. Would it work? PAZ, Pedro -------------- next part -------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content='"MSHTML 4.72.3110.7"' name=GENERATOR> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#b8b8b8> <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Shannon is probablyr eady to pitch a fit as we digress from cob, but this horsehair thing is sort of interesting..sort of anti-tech. When I rennovated our 130 year old farm house, i opened the wall partitions to find old clay bricks used for insulation (thermal mass) they were muded roughly over with clay and straw mix which the mice loved.Recently, I nearly bought an old feed mixer at auction to chop cobs (corn, not straw clay) for insulation. I think it would be great insulation and non-toxic. I abhor working with fiberglass, it just "feels" unhealthy.Unfortunatly I live in the southwest where corn cobs are sorta rare. One might be able to get a load of cobs,chopped or whole from a feed mill if they live back east. Nothing but air and fiber. Would it work? PAZ, Pedro</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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