[Cob] Super adobe: a cloth sack- not cement

[Dirtcheapbuilder-Charmaine]

Thanks for commenting about use of the terms “super
adobe” and “6% portland cement”. I should have
capitalized or quotized “Super Adobe”. The reason I
used the term is when I was on a job site in
California run by a person that claimed to have worked
for calearth.org's Nader Khalili


I believe it is nothing to do with any  cement additive  at all, but 
the fact that   dirt is quickly bagged in a sack... which looks like an 
adobe brick shape

I don't think everyone who puts dirt in a sack uses cement,  some use 
hydrated  lime as a binding agent, other ingredients might be used... 
or   just   sifted ( not too rocky)  dirt into a sack. ( or the rocks 
are used in a couple foundation layers  if flooding is possible.

The point of the word "super"  is the  immediate nature of creating a 
building of "adobe" dirt by just filling sacks and stacking a wall.

  Nader  Khalili has a 30 minute video  with a  "universal language   
[none.  just music]    showing several people building an emergency bee 
hive shape  hut, using just dirt, the sack, and a brick for tamping the 
sacks into shape.

oh yea a 2 pound coffee can to dump dirt into sacks, and maybe a shovel.


The simplicity is obvious... but watching those people use a   full 
size  red brick over and over was  horrendous.
I'd at least have choose a broken brick, of some other "rubble tool" to 
tamp with.


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