[Cob] COB MIX DESIGN

[Mike Swink]

Subject: [Cob] COB MIX DESIGN


> Hello, I am new to the coblist.

> I am looking into adding different materials to a cob/earthen mix and test
it for durability and structural characteristics.
> thoughts/comments/advice?
>
> Michael LaRoche
> Floyd, VA

I wonder if you are a student?
Several things really gets me boiling mad. One is that there is so much tax
paid research and that the people who needs it the most are kept from it.

The late Dr. Paul Ramsey of Ga.Tech in 1970's took his field students to
Mother Earth News during one summer. They were doing exactly what you desire
to know. No doubt somewhere at Ga.Tech there is dusty box filled with the
test results.

I lived long enough to know that US grants is a way the goverment steals
your hard labor. They offered me 1/4million dollars for me to experiment on
one my of ideas. The fine print says they own the information and control
the sale or distrubition.

Maybe one day the tax laws will change and non tax produceing devices will
be devolped. Mother Earth News has a new archive online
Mother Earth News _ Main Index [
http://www.motherearthnews.com/menarch/archive/ ]

. If you look for the issue that shows the new solar boxes put up on the
hendersonville offices. [1973-75??]It was during this time frame that
Dr.Ramseys class was there. Also a Milo Wheel missing the most important
part a fresnal lens and the help of magnets was in the basement of the
offices.

I never desired going back in time to live like those people. But reather a
self relaint cob house that at times when I needed to do research or to
reeducate my self. I look at a cob home in the country side as insurance
against times of change. Or just pure fun. When I returned from europe to
the usa while in service. It was so shocking that america was so young that
people could build permaent homes only to have them replaced with highways
etc
 Zeolite might be interesting. for lining vents to extract moisture etc.