Cob Mahal Build Time Lapse 7: 8/15/23 to 8/20/23 - 2nd Story Walls and Compression Ring Construction

[@h.rutten2187]

A great tip for quickly building cob walls is to get any digger you can get with a bucket. If you can buy a small or big second hand digger for a few thousand dollars(or even better borrow one. If so you can simply dig a pit and mix the cob with the digger in the pit with local soil adding any extra clay, sand, straw and water that it needs to be good cob. Then when it’s done mixing with the bucket you can just lift it out with that bucket scooping it out in a big cob lump and place it on top of the stone walls to be battered and stumped into place with wooden hammers and paddles. You can also create a big mud pool in a shallow wide mud pit and mix the cobs with the tracks of the digger and scoop it out, but with the diggers bucket in a deeper pit it’s much more efficient and way less messy. In the U.S. a good old but second hand digger should be bought for under ten thousand dollar, saves you endless back breaking work and helps with any big landscaping projects. The big ones are often really cheap in comparison because of the big trucks and permits for travel that you need but once its on the property you could build a cob castle with it.

[@naturallivingwithmikeandnalini]

Thanks for the comment! We already have a lovely old Kubota tractor which we plan to use in our cob pit. If you check out our other videos you'll see it in action!