Pallet Cob Hut

[@elizcringle6505]

This just goes to show: it's not the materials, but the brains (behind the vision) that counts, resulting a beautiful little cobin. Great work Sir Cabalot! I'm planning on a palletwood, strawlight clay & cob combo build, like this. Thank you for posting.

[@cobalot9]

Thanks for that Eliz!

[@elizcringle6505]

@@cobalot9 You're welcome! Keep up the great work, I love your little cobins, they are soooo cool! 😎

[@හේළි-ත8ණ]

Nice family work. Love it! 💐💐💐

[@chefboyrdanbh]

I just love it! I cant get enough of your video's! Keep them coming!

[@cobalot9]

Right on, thanks!

[@dr123hall]

Waaaayyy good info! Roof to wall is no insulation straight bare?

[@ashlook2001]

This looks way too fun I'd probably spend all day doing this as if I am some over grown kid doing arts and crafts in class.. I don't think I'd be able to be pulled away from such fun activity. I always loved playing in dirt, mud and clay..

[@zachandevajensen4600]

Is this a safe building method for temperate climates that have cold snowy winters and wet, hot summers?

[@spinderella3602]

Way cool! Thank you! Love the LED lights in the bottles!

[@cobalot9]

Cool! Yeah, glad you like!

[@amyharris7337]

This is a work of art! Thank you for sharing your creative vision and love of natural building methods. Your joy is contagious!

[@AlexJurj]

Hello from Romania. Great job. Amazing. BIG LIKE!

[@-abheda]

thank you for sharing:). i am awed by how what could be considered trash and rough ground can be turned into soulful creativity and a dwelling, given time and human energy. i love the minimalsim, the essentialism, the craft, the canny can do attitude, the communal contributions - it is all so lovely:). beautiful work in co-creation, thanks for the inspiration.

[@cobalot9]

Yes, we are having fun building these!

[@stevegeohegan522]

This looks great....very clear and a dash of simplicity

[@monkeymanwasd1239]

doing some notes for my favorites list as it seems like if youtube turns into a publisher a ton of the small channels will be deleted. 5. Palletable cobins, Miguel Elliott. Straw inside the pallets. Chicken wire stapled to the wood to make it all stick. Gaps between the pallets are fine, inch+ are fine. He wets the pallets with high clay to make it stick without chicken wire. Flour cob mixture for interior paint, 70% sand 30% clay for cob 10% chopped straw and 5% flour base. Lime plaster on the outside to protect from rain. Led lights in the bottle windows. Lime wash on top of the lime plaster. Clay paint: Cob has to dry before the plaster is done to avoid mold. Iron oxide added, 70% boiled flour paste with white powdered clay, ground stone. The building had a wood floor and a metal roof with thin roof rafters.

[@amyharris7337]

Thank you!!!!

[@Harlowerayne]

Beautiful! I am looking forward to visiting y'all and volunteering Spring of next year 😊.

[@cobalot9]

Yeah, come on out! There are lots of cobbortunities...

[@mikim3954]

Beautiful! A question, How do you keep the rocket stove pipes clean? Miki

[@kevinburgess6112]

this is a great video, the bottles, sculpture, the final colors, i could go on, a huge like and subscribed. 👍👍

[@ariloves10]

Great instruction, ingenuity and teamwork. You All Rock!!! Brilliant simple masterpiece. Bravo 👏 👏 👏

[@cobalot9]

Thanks Kristin!

[@ariloves10]

@@cobalot9 your most welcome 🙏 teamwork makes the dream work 💜

[@tarialorehand]

I love what you do and am really inspired to try this on my own. It's very creative and I really want to use this as a way to build something in the future, But I do have a couple of questions though. 1) how do you keep the rodents out because of the straw in the walls? and 2) with the flour mixture, how do you keep it from molding over time? I only ask this because I make paper mache clay to sculpt with and use flour in the mixture and even though I add things, such as linseed oil and a few drops of bleach to try and stop it. it still tends to grow mold over time. It might take a while, but it still shows up. So how do you deal with it on the walls? Maybe it's because I'm using fiberfill as my base in the clay, who knows. Anyway thanks for the wonderful video showing how you make this and again I want to try and make one for myself one day. First I need to get some land in Arizona and build a huge house this way shaped like a dragon. I have a plan, don't laugh to hard at it. hahaha. :)

[@cobalot9]

Hi there, glad to hear you like my videos I hope you do find them helpful. As far as rodents go I just make sure that I have no points of entry and a good lime plaster over the cob and that keeps them out with the flour in the plaster I have actually never had any mold issues. If you are concerned with us you could add a little borax into the mixture.

[@gudulabialek6027]

I love it! It is so great!!!

[@sangarkhan1927]

Nice one

[@bondpaz]

So cool! We’re building with straw bale. ❤️

[@melaniavzla6773]

This is how i want to build my home

[@mischadavison5052]

do you have problems with mice in the walls eventually?

[@cobalot9]

I have had an issue woth that before but I have improved my skills since then and not anymore. I minimize the gaps towards the bottom of the structure now...

[@abenewman1351]

What is the clay slip made out of?

[@bondpaz]

A work of Art!!

[@lifestyleoffreedomfamily]

Nice - one thing, what wind speed can this withstand? thx

[@cobalot9]

I have built these on trailers and pulled them on the back of my truck going at least 80 miles an hour downhill without any issues. Im pretty sure it can withstand high winds...

[@nated186]

When making clay paint 70% flour paste, 30% clay. Would I be mixing for a 10 gallon batch - 7 gallons of paste to 3 gallons of dry clay or clay slip? Thank you.

[@MimiDidi121]

So is it 8 parts water 1 part flour to begin your clay paint? I've got a huge vein of red clay on my property. Can I actually use that? I'm in the Ozarks where we seem to grow rocks, I've got a piece of property that is virtually rock free! I've dug big holes to plant trees and shrubs and out of about 10-15 holes I've found about 2 golfball size rocks! As a kid one of our jobs was to pick up rocks in the pasture. Amazingly, we'd have to do it at least twice a year! We harvested more rocks than anything else! Now, I've got no rocks, but a 10" or so, wide vein of deep red clay running through my property. I've got 20 acres just 8 miles away that is so rocky it's ridiculous!

[@artsculpture1024]

This is great, what I want to do, an ART SHACK! Thanks

[@outsidetesseract6389]

So by using flour, you're building your house out of mold food?

[@wulfclaw4921]

Why not use the rocket exhaust inside more - like through the bench then up the wall & out ? Awesome place you created !! Wulfy

[@cobalot9]

Yes, that would have been possible. Just seemed like a good idea to put the upright pipe outside to not take up room in the space, and it works plenty well just through the long bench.

[@shanengivone3973]

Monsieur "Cobalot", would you please send me the Amazon link for the correct 50# bag of the lime used to make lime putty for a cob house? I'm so confused about the different lime they offer, in 50 pound bags, for the most reasonable price... that will make lime putty! I need your expertise... and I'm on a very tight budget! Thank you for any suggestions you can make from lime on Amazon!

[@lesataylor6845]

Very Very cool

[@vintageantsinmyblood8153]

That statue's really crazy

[@greyes701]

For Northern Midwestern climate is the amount of straw in the one pallet enough?

[@cobalot9]

Yes I believe so. You will still need a heat source inside though...

[@greyes701]

@@cobalot9 Yes, understood, a wood stove or rocket stove for heat.

[@RVBadlands2015]

Can you send the receipt of the paint I-can use it on our Strawbale home. Can it be used on the exterior. Can you put an earthen floor over a concrete slab.

[@cobalot9]

The paint is about 60 percent flour paste and 40 percent clay. Yes it can be done over a strawbale home. Yes, you can cob over a concrete slab.

[@RVBadlands2015]

What keeps the clay from falling off the pallets. Does the inside crack.

[@cobalot9]

A. clay slip goes over tbe pallets first and that acts as a glue for the cob to stick. Yes, it does crack some as it dries, but the finish plaster covers up the cracks...

[@AzaharSpain]

Question. Is it on a concrete foundation?

[@cobalot9]

Nope. This one was built on a wooden deck.

[@melissamoonfire4323]

10:28. Thank you

[@RedandAprilOff-Grid]

😎👍

[@leslierusso4869]

Enjoying your video, planning to bild one cob house but NO pachamama, I love the real God Yahwe the pachamama creator. Viva Cristo Rey! From Perú 🇵🇪❤️🌹

[@cobalot9]

Ok, enjoy sculpting your yahweh. Im curious what that will look like ..

[@leslierusso4869]

@@cobalot9 thank you...I will sculpt Jesus...Good idea! Thank you again! God loves you and bless all of us!♥️🇵🇪🌹

[@Kooshad1]

This also stood out to me on this build, reminding me of Isaiah 44.

[@seoexpertsandyrowley6598]

Beautiful...but, wouldn't the flour attract rodents?

[@Holdaflametothis]

MOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE