[Cob] Looking for answers (Henry Raduazo): mixing cob with rototiller

[Mary Lou McFarland]

Too many people do nothing if they feel they cannot do something in the ideal manner.  That just holds us all back.  It's still better to build a natural house with a cement mixer then to not build a natural house at all.  Our home isn't perfect.  My husband (and the bank) could not let go of convention.  so I pushed the envelope as far as I could and was able to do an earth sheltered, passive solar home.  Still better then the average construction.  It's just a matter of everybody doing the best that they can do.  What a change we could make now.  I guess that's just me taking my idealism in a different direction.  Not a single home ideally built, but all of us behaving to the best of our ideals.  LOL This could get as bad as a theological debate, couldn't it?!

> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 13:25:13 -0600
> From: howard at earthandstraw.com
> To: humantim at yahoo.com
> CC: coblist at deatech.com
> Subject: Re: [Cob] Looking for answers (Henry Raduazo): mixing cob with	rototiller
> 
> God works in strange and diverse ways, why not the rest of us?  BTW, what
> good is a romantic without hope? :-)  I admire the ethics of that, slowing
> down to match the speed of nature.  Building naturally, even if you use a
> drill or a mortar mixer, is still putting the brakes on somewhat, I think.
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> On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Tim <humantim at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > I may just be off the beam with the general consensus here, but isn't the
> > whole point of building naturally to stay away using from fossil fuels and
> > machines and to rely on our human strength and what the natural world
> > provides?
> > Using found materials and re-purposing concrete for a foundation is one
> > thing...
> > I know I'm a hopeless romantic about the potential of this movement.
> >
> > Your brother in Christ,
> > Tim
> >
> > "But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be
> > seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."  John 3:21
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: E W <ehwpc at hotmail.com>
> > To: coblist at deatech.com
> > Sent: Saturday, March 2, 2013 10:07 PM
> > Subject: [Cob] Looking for answers (Henry Raduazo): mixing cob with
> > rototiller
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> > Hi Ed! i just read your comments to Marlin Nissen in the "Coblist"
> > regarding the production of cob with a rototiller. You mentioned that you
> > do the mixing with a 5HP tiller.I am about to start mixing for a 1500 sq
> > feet house. Could you please share with me your experience and perhaps
> > pictures? What about the long straw? Doesn't it get clogged to the rotor?
> > Doesn`t it get cut into smaller pieces by the blades from the tiller?  I
> > was thinking about renting a bobcat, but perhaps the rototiller is a better
> > and cheaper solution...and I'd appreciate it if you'd share your
> > experience. Thanks a lot!  Eric (EW)
> >
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