Cob: how do folks handle other responsibilities duringbuildin g?

[John Schinnerer]

Aloha,

>The solution in my opinion is for someone to devise a machine which will
>prepare the raw materials, mix the cob, and place it ON the wall.  When
>this  is done, then we will be very close to providing to folks such as you
the
>means to build with cob at a low cost amidst the demands of everday life.

The most important thing in my opinion is to take a long hard look at "the
demands of everyday life" and act to change them so that this becomes less
and less of an issue.  It's only been an issue for a small part of the
population for a few hundred years out of human history...let's start
turning it around before it gets any worse!

And - how would such a machine be any different that all the existing
(expensive, resource-depleting, highly manufactured, energy-guzzling, noisy,
dangerous, dehumanizing) machines that we already have and use to construct
dwellings?  If it were as simple as mechanizing most aspects of housing
construction, well, that was done decades ago...

John Schinnerer