SB: Re: RE: Mud Daubing

["John Swearingen" <john@skillful-means.com>]

Seems to me you could use it.  Put it on wet, with lots of straw mixed in
plus plenty of sand.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Wagner" <dwagner@sa.kevric.com>
To: <strawbale@crest.org>
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:13 PM
Subject: SB: RE: Mud Daubing


> I have evil expansive clay notorious in this area for busting up
> cement slabs and black from old organic matter ground into it over
> many years of cattle grazing done before the land was subdivided in
> the 1940s.  As a material, some of it is dense and workable enough to
> form into ashtrays.  Since it hasn't rained in far too long, the
> cracked-dry-riverbed look (1" cracks) is obvious under the
> dormant-to-dying grass.
>
> I don't think it would remain friendly if plastered on a wall and
> exposed to horizontally blown rain then dryed at 100F as happens
> occasionally, but does this clay soil seem suitable for the daubing
> techniques described if the wall is to be plastered in lime stucco?
>
> Appreciating the Pointers
>
> -David
>
> P.S.  Please pardon the prior double post.
>
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