[Cob] Sill plates and tractor cob

[Dulane]

Did they used to use horses to make cob?

Dulane
----- Original Message -----
From: "Amanda Peck" <ap615 at hotmail.com>
To: <roemiller at infostations.net>; <>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 10:47 AM
Subject: RE:[Cob] Sill plates and tractor cob


| That sounds wonderful!  Time has put a whole lot of people off.  Including
| me.
|
| ................
| Barbara wrote:
|
| As for tractor cob, with proper layering and mixing, we find it superior
to
| foot cob, and
| much faster.  We can mix drier which means with simple plywood forms we
can
| go
| higher in one day's working without the spluging associated with wetter
| mixes.  With
| help we can put up four feet by the length of the building in one day.  A
| locally
| devised slipform board approach will probably be detailed in the next
| California
| Straw Building Assn. newsletter (CASBA).  You can subscribe at
| www.strawbuilding.org/  The technique means that cob is approaching stick
| framing
| in terms of time when you account for providing thermal mass and a wall
| that's ready
| to plaster.
|
| Barbara
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