[Cob] hybrid bags

[Amanda Peck]

There's this:

http://gnat3.gnat.net/~goshawk/

Pat's on the list, one of the Georgia cobbers, not exactly arid desert 
there.  He and his late wife went to the Cal-Earth school.  His house is a 
hybrid.  The link above is to his (older, I think) picture page, with 
pictures from their time at Cal-Earth as well as the place in Georgia.

Charmaine Taylor (the bookstore woman) has or had a bit--probably in the 
papercrete part of her website (start with www.dirtcheapbuilders.com ) about 
using Gabions as a foundation for, in that case, straw bale, because they do 
come in rectangles, but I'd guess they're adaptable for anything.  These are 
big wire baskets filled with the largest rock you can buy.  I've seen a 
handful of pictures from Europe where they are the exposed foundations.  In 
this country they are mostly used for erosion control, road and river banks.

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Jilly writes (snipped).
I have the books mentioned, regarding earth bags in a foundation setting. I 
was questioning the use of them as a wall, the north wall.

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