[Cob] Dry mixing & Cement Mixers familiar methods

[Amanda Peck]

Unfortunately I also know people for whom the opposite is true--the method 
that they've used is the ONLY method worth using, ONLY house design worth 
building, and so on ad nauseum.
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Lance has a point (snipped from a long message):

I've tried a number of earth building techniques and formed the opinion that 
any other method is probably better than the one you are using at the moment 
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