[Cob] life of straw/hemp in cob (was: stuck buckets!)

[billc]

Once your wall is dry, and assuming it stays that way, there should 
be very little biological activity (rot).

Robert Laporte tells of cutting open a 600+ year old straw-clay wall 
in Europe (I believe they were making a new doorway or window) and 
finding that once the clay was removed, the straw looked pretty much 
as fresh as if it had just come from the field.  The clay had 
essentially 'entombed' the straw and preserved it.

At 12:28 AM +0300 5/8/08, Cjristos wrote:
>Do you have any idea about the life of the straw ( or of the hemp )  inside
>the cob mix? After how many years does it rots or loses its properties?
>Maybe this is an interesting comparison between hemp and straw. I am sure
>other people have think of it before but i haven't heard anything about it
>yet.
>
>
>
>On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:12 PM, Deborah Terreson <foodandart at comcast.net>
>wrote:
>
>>  My best guess is that it would act much the same way as adding straw
>>  to cob does. As far as plant materials go, hemp fibers are
>>  phenomenally tough. If you can find whole lengths of raw hemp strands
>>  to use, it would be an interesting project.
>>
>>  Deb.
>>
>>  On May 7, 2008, at 4:30 AM, Cjristos wrote:
>>
>>  > Hello everybody.
>>  >
>>  > does anyone has articles about the attitude of hemp  into the cob?
>>  > Cannabis
>>  > is one of the strongest vegetable material. I know the they make
>>  > hemp-lime
>>  > preessed material but what happens if you mix the  fibre of the
>>  > plant into
>  > > the cob?
>  > >

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