Duff bogen on tue 4 mar 08
Poles from pre-commercial thinning clustered together for colums sandwiching dimension lumber roof trusses and Homosote panels for walls and ceilings. Recycled old windows on top of the wall panels for a stripe of light coming in just below the ceiling.
A question for you? I've often noticed that barrow pit on the south side of the road where the coast highway leaves Veneta. Its always cloudy like there's clay in it. Have you ever dug around there for clay? I know the Curtis' dug clay near fern ridge and to make pots in the 50's.
a curious mind wants to know.
DRB
Earl Krueger wrote:
Ran across this article about making IFBs with rice husks.
Thought it was pretty interesting.
enjoy,
or not.
Earl Krueger
Veneta, Oregon, usa
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Earl Krueger on tue 4 mar 08
Hi Duff,
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:16 AM, Duff bogen wrote:
> I've often noticed that barrow pit on the south side of the road where
> the coast highway leaves Veneta. Its always cloudy like there's clay in it.
>
If the pond you're referring to is the one I think you mean then there's
lots of stuff in it. It's the city sewage pond. :-)
Have you ever dug around there for clay? I know the Curtis' dug clay near
> fern ridge and to make pots in the 50's.
> a curious mind wants to know.
>
I have a piece of property about 3 miles outside of town at the base of what
is called Clay Hill on the maps. There is definitely clay there. I have a
hill on the property which is covered with a loose reddish brown sandy clay
with yellowish clay in hard chunks sticking out in places. A few years ago
the neighbor behind me drilled a new well. The well log shows there to be a
yellow clay layer from 5' down to 33 feet. After it rains hard I get
springs popping up all over so I believe there to be a hard clay layer down
just a few feet over most of the property. There would be more clay there
than I could ever use in a lifetime. The only question is what is it good
for. I tried processing some of the reddish-brown stuff and found it to be
more sand than clay and what clay there was was rather short. I have a
bucket of the yellow clay chunks in my garage but haven't broken any of it
down yet to see what it's like.
Earl Krueger
Veneta, Oregon, usa
Duff bogen on thu 6 mar 08
Hey Earl
There's all kinds of clay on the east side of the coast range. Generally form the foothills but not as far up as the summit. Mostly in small pockets here and there and every one is different. Red clay-ish soil is a lateritic soil high in iron and Al2O3, refractory in oxidation. Yellow nodules might be yellow iron leached out. The best clay I came across was a buff stoneware plastic! and slightly porus at ^10 but it was on private property... like you said it was in a wet area a little dish valley with a creek. If you get to know those native reeds- long tubular stems hollow like green onions and scraggly brown seed clusters- out prospectin you can spot a wet area from the road and stop to check it out. Next best clay I used was one David Stannard used mixed with 1/8th valley gumbo for plasticity. The Monroe brick plant had a pit near cheshire with some nice stonwares in it.
Try this- put a handful of a dried clay sample in a qt. jar mostly full of water. let it slake down over night. In the morning shake the jar for several minutes. Set it where you can watch it settle out. Sand falls out in about 40 sec. next is silt up to 20 minutes from there out its clay. (I oftendisremember is it 20 sec and 40 min or 40 sec and 20 minutes? you can prably Google "soil test adobe" and get the answer.)
The only way to find out is to jump in and try it. But when you find out it will be uniquelly yours.
Earl Krueger wrote:
I have a piece of property about 3 miles outside of town at the base of what
is called Clay Hill on the maps. There is definitely clay there. I have a
hill on the property which is covered with a loose reddish brown sandy clay
with yellowish clay in hard chunks sticking out in places. A few years ago
the neighbor behind me drilled a new well. The well log shows there to be a
yellow clay layer from 5' down to 33 feet. After it rains hard I get
springs popping up all over so I believe there to be a hard clay layer down
just a few feet over most of the property. There would be more clay there
than I could ever use in a lifetime. The only question is what is it good
for. I tried processing some of the reddish-brown stuff and found it to be
more sand than clay and what clay there was was rather short. I have a
bucket of the yellow clay chunks in my garage but haven't broken any of it
down yet to see what it's like.
Earl Krueger
Veneta, Oregon, usa
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