I have been waiting for you to get back from your Florida project to entice you here to Southern Arizona! I want to build exactly what you did there here on our 5 acre land. We have stacks of pallets, the perfect soil, and many hands to build some workshops for everyone to learn from the man himself, Sir Cobalot! We are building an EcoVillage, "Back To The Earth" is what we call it. I am wanting to offer farm stays in the palletable cobins where people can come get hands on experience on an off grid homestead, like milking the Goats with me! You are my biggest inspiration, and I am most interested in your pool/hot tub combo with the pizza oven and hot water spout in the middle that you did several years ago! Wink wink! ❤ When you are ready to build again, we would love to see you out here!
Hi there,. So glad you've been inspired by my projects that's great that you want to do some cobins on your homestead. I'm here in California now doing various projects but perhaps next year I can journey to Arizona to help you build your vision
@@cobalot9 Thank you for the fast reply! February or March time frame is actually the best building weather here, and when the goats are popping out those cute little gremlins, lol! That also gives me time to set up Workshops so we can have enough people here to help. We also have a few pretty big TH-cam Channels who live around here who I know have also been inspired by your work, and would love to come learn from the man himself! Ashley from Tiny Shiny Home is always showing techniques that I know she learned from you, (like the cottage cheese lid). Then there is Jim and Jess who were Green Dream Project, and just changed the name, I will have to go find the new one, but they are building earth bag domes. Cochise County is actually full of people doing this because they have the owner builder's opt out, so we are allowed to build whatever pretty much! You would be a popular man in these parts, lol!
Do you think the cob on palette design would work in a very cold climate? Down to -20 occasionally. With wood heater of course, and probably fewer windows. 😊
Miguel, I have built my first cob project...a cob oven. I have dried it, fired it and cooked in it (It was GREAT FUN! Baked bread, made braised chicken and roasted veggies). Anyway, the cob oven is under a temp. tent. I want to make it weatherproof so that I don't have to built a roof over the oven. I've soaked my hydrated lime and am about to mix it with sand to make the plaster (though now I wonder if I actually had to soak that lime for a week, but whatever). Anyway, regarding water proofing, are you putting the olive oil soap undiluted on the wet plaster or is it soapy water? I'll get some linseed oil to finish, but we get a lot of rain here, so I want to make it as water proof as possible.
Hi there . It's ideal to build a simple roof over an oven if possible. You want the oven to breathe so it's not great to seal it and trap the moisture inside. If you must seal it though, I suppose you can mix 3 parts sand with your slaked lime and add a colored oxide. When that is dry you can seal it with a couple coats of linseed oil and thinner. You'll want to add a powdered oxide to the oil, and it dries splotchy without it. I don't use olive oil, unless I'm doing a tadelak
This is so amazing but what happened? Was it all demolished and destroyed by the Bill Gates government or some such? I don't see any residents in this short video.
I have been waiting for you to get back from your Florida project to entice you here to Southern Arizona! I want to build exactly what you did there here on our 5 acre land. We have stacks of pallets, the perfect soil, and many hands to build some workshops for everyone to learn from the man himself, Sir Cobalot! We are building an EcoVillage, "Back To The Earth" is what we call it. I am wanting to offer farm stays in the palletable cobins where people can come get hands on experience on an off grid homestead, like milking the Goats with me! You are my biggest inspiration, and I am most interested in your pool/hot tub combo with the pizza oven and hot water spout in the middle that you did several years ago! Wink wink! ❤ When you are ready to build again, we would love to see you out here!
Hi there,. So glad you've been inspired by my projects that's great that you want to do some cobins on your homestead. I'm here in California now doing various projects but perhaps next year I can journey to Arizona to help you build your vision
@@cobalot9 Thank you for the fast reply! February or March time frame is actually the best building weather here, and when the goats are popping out those cute little gremlins, lol! That also gives me time to set up Workshops so we can have enough people here to help. We also have a few pretty big TH-cam Channels who live around here who I know have also been inspired by your work, and would love to come learn from the man himself! Ashley from Tiny Shiny Home is always showing techniques that I know she learned from you, (like the cottage cheese lid). Then there is Jim and Jess who were Green Dream Project, and just changed the name, I will have to go find the new one, but they are building earth bag domes. Cochise County is actually full of people doing this because they have the owner builder's opt out, so we are allowed to build whatever pretty much! You would be a popular man in these parts, lol!
Keep up the amazing work 🎉
Looks great!!
Do you think the cob on palette design would work in a very cold climate? Down to -20 occasionally. With wood heater of course, and probably fewer windows. 😊
Sure, no problemo!
Miguel, I have built my first cob project...a cob oven. I have dried it, fired it and cooked in it (It was GREAT FUN! Baked bread, made braised chicken and roasted veggies). Anyway, the cob oven is under a temp. tent. I want to make it weatherproof so that I don't have to built a roof over the oven. I've soaked my hydrated lime and am about to mix it with sand to make the plaster (though now I wonder if I actually had to soak that lime for a week, but whatever). Anyway, regarding water proofing, are you putting the olive oil soap undiluted on the wet plaster or is it soapy water? I'll get some linseed oil to finish, but we get a lot of rain here, so I want to make it as water proof as possible.
Hi there . It's ideal to build a simple roof over an oven if possible. You want the oven to breathe so it's not great to seal it and trap the moisture inside. If you must seal it though, I suppose you can mix 3 parts sand with your slaked lime and add a colored oxide. When that is dry you can seal it with a couple coats of linseed oil and thinner. You'll want to add a powdered oxide to the oil, and it dries splotchy without it. I don't use olive oil, unless I'm doing a tadelak
Would love a slow tour, even on .25 speed that went too fast!
Could you redo this video and make it regular speed and explain how you built each one
There are lots of videos on my channel that shows the process of building these.
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This is so amazing but what happened? Was it all demolished and destroyed by the Bill Gates government or some such? I don't see any residents in this short video.