[Cob] have a seminar?

[Henry Raduazo]

	In Washington, DC area (One mile from Mt. Vernon) I am still doing  
cob mixing with a rototiller. I am a little more than half finished.  
If anyone wants to learn mixing with a tiller or chopping straw with  
a lawn mower let me know when you want to stop by. I am just working  
when I have the time. I hope to have the entire alleyway under a roof  
by the end of June and I plan to have the whole thing covered with a  
growing medium and planted by the end of July.

Ed


On May 31, 2009, at 1:58 AM, Shannon Dealy wrote:

> On Sat, 30 May 2009, Tys Sniffen wrote:
>
>> So,
>>
>> How do people feel about having a building seminar on their  
>> project, to help
>> get a bunch of people to help put some volume on the walls?  I was  
>> getting
>> ready to have one up here, but then the logistics started to feel  
>> like just
>> as much work as slinging mud myself.
> [snip]
>
> A lot will depend on the experience, the size and physical  
> conditioning
> of the people who come to help, how many days they come to help and  
> how
> fast you are when working alone.
>
> To give a couple examples:
>
> Some friends wanted to come out and help me with a building I was  
> working
> on so they could learn a bit about cob.  This resulted in seven  
> people of
> all ages coming out for one day to work on my building.  Of course  
> I had
> to teach them some basics and keep an eye on what they were doing,  
> so at
> the end of the day, me with seven people helping completed slightly  
> less
> than I would have done working alone.  Of course it was more fun than
> working alone and I don't regret doing it, but for one day of  
> "help" it
> didn't do anything for me.  Had they come back a second day, there  
> would
> have been less need of supervision, no initial training, and probably
> would have more than made up for the first day, though not  
> massively so.
>
> I teach cob workshops and generally figure that on the first day,  
> for up
> to ten students, they will produce at most about what I could working
> alone (note in the previous example I was working with them, when I  
> teach
> workshops I do less actual building work).  By the fourth day of  
> class I
> figure about three to four students to match my output, and by the  
> end of
> the week two to three students.
>
> This is what I typically see, however, I am much faster than most  
> at cob
> building and this just gives the typical case.  I had one workshop  
> with
> three brothers, one 13 years old and two in their mid-20's.  The older
> brothers were both something like 6'4" to 6'6" tall (two meters to  
> those
> of you who think metric) and in extremely good physical condition, the
> younger one was almost my size.  Needless to say, they completely  
> blew my
> general rules for how much output.  While the older brothers  
> individually
> weren't as fast as I was, by the end of the workshop they were getting
> close, and together, they were definitely faster.
>
> FWIW.
>
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