For the past couple of weeks we’ve been busy finalizing the floor plans for our forever home and barn renovation, staking them out on the land and getting back to the architects with our changes. It’s been exciting and exhausting, figuring out what our dream would actually look like. But we’re getting there! While we wait for the architects to get back to us with the final plans, we decided to get started on the goat barn walls.
For the chicken coop we mixed the cob by foot and tarp, which, while fun, gratifying and great for lower-body strength, is very time-consuming. Haffy had been hypothesizing for a while that mixing with a tractor would be much more efficient, and while we couldn’t find much information about it, we did go ahead and buy a tractor—Doozer!—because, well, Haffy’s hypotheses have a way of panning out.
Since we are planning on building several more structures in cob, we were somewhere on the continuum of excited-anxious to find out how cob tractor-mixing would go. Happily, It was a resounding success! In a couple of hours, Haffy had mixed the equivalent of a few good feet-mixing days.
And then it was time to get cobbing. It’s a pleasure to have a good amount of cob pre-mixed and ready to go for uninterrupted wall building.
Homiyah 