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The $0 Per Square Foot House
Sickle - used to cut grass for the cob mix ... future batches. My high clay/silt cob mix once dry will soften much more quickly than an "ideal" cob mix when soaked in water (a few hours as opposed to days), which shows how much of a difference a good high sand mix ...
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Green Home Building: Natural Building Techniques: Cob
Cob Cob is a very old method of building with earth and straw or other fibers. It is quite similar to adobe in that the basic mix of clay and sand is the same, but it usually has a higher percentage of long straw fibers mixed in. Instead of creating uniform blocks to build with, cob ...
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Natural Building Colloquium
Nature, Earth & Magic • Hybrid House • Barefoot Architecture • History of Cob • Cob Q & A • Natural Composites • Compressed Earth Blocks • Adobe Oven • Earthen Floor ... as follows: · Cob Sculpting Mixture: Prepare in advance screened materials for stiff earthen plaster mix, (basically a refined cob mix. See ... water at hand. Take your ball of cob sculpting mix or clay and sit still. Trust your hands ...
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The Hand-Sculpted House: how to build a cob cottage
Cob on Tarps • Notes on Tarps • The Pit Method • Using Machines for Mixing • MUD, LABOR, PLEASURE • Tips for Speed and Efficiency • COB MIX TROUBLE-SHOOTING GUIDE • Custom Mixes Chapter 12: Building Cob Walls Cobs, Gobs, and Blobs • Trodden Cob • Cob Loaves • Gaab-cob • Creating a Monolithic Structure • Connecting Two Cob ...
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[Cob] woolcrete
I will use wool in my cob mix as that is what I have, but ... subject ] [ author ] More information about the Coblist mailing list Solar powered hosting (from our cob office building) provided by: DeaTech Research Inc. using Debian Linux ...
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IT'S OUR GARDEN
Extra Fresh Vegetables: Naturally, corn on the cob and newly picked peas are especially noticeable, but this trait extends to all vegetables you ... build raised beds right on top of it, instead. Obtain some loose, dry topsoil and mix it with compost, leaves, aged manure and any other organic material you can find to ...
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EcoIQ: Browsing Books
Guy Dauncey. Earthfuture provides us with a vision of positive and achievable alternatives. With its mix of utopian fiction and reportage of near-reality, it skillfully sows the seeds of an ... Book By Cedar Rose Guelberth and Dan Chiras. For builders of natural homes (straw bale, cob, adobe, rammed earth, and other natural materials), this unique step-by-step guide takes the ...
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Working with Lime
It can take a pure lime putty/sand mix several days to harden, which does not mean that all the ... mud plaster backing; this is traditionally what we did with our cob houses. However, there have been some failures, usually in the form ... sand for aggregate in a new mix. Barbara Jones has trained for over 20 years in carpentry, cob building, and limework in England and the ...
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EEK! - Critter Corner - The Trumpeter Swan
Large, shallow wetlands, 1-3 feet deep, with a mix of vegetation and open water offer ideal swan nesting habitat. These ... lodges, or they pile sedges and cattail tubers into mounds. The cob uproots vegetation and gives it to the pen, who piles it ... 4 ½ " long and 3" wide. The pen incubates the eggs and the cob protects the nest against intruders, including Canada geese. After 33 days of ...
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Natural Building Colloquium
"Gaab cob," cob loaves, etc. · Oregon Cob is very strong in ... Cob buildings gives them high strength. This is achieved by building mostly curved walls, by tapering and buttressing them, by adjusting wall thickness and material mix, and by keeping roof spans short. Isn't it cold and damp inside? Winter visitors to cob buildings in Oregon often comment on how warm and dry they feel. Cob ...
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