Uncle Mud Quick-Tip: Harvesting Local Subsoil for Cob Building

Elaine has made a short video on harvesting your own clay soil for earthen buildings (including cob, slip, rammed earth, earthbag, pise, earthen floors and plasters) to go with our more detailed "Sourcing Earthen Building Materials Cheat-Sheet" found here https://www.youtube.com/redirect?v=Isj7kiwPxwA&event=video_description&redir_token=67GKHKxUOJhO3G1VTDJ_TSjLTT98MTU5MzAyMzM1MEAxNTkyOTM2OTUw&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.unclemud.com%2Fstore%3Fstore-page%3DEbook-PDF-Uncle-Mud-Sourcing-Earthen-Building-Materials-Cheat-Sheet-p211487483 Support us on https://Patreon.com/unclemud and get FREE exclusive content including our extended videos and our latest cheat-sheets.

I am wanting to build a cob doghouse.  I have a mutt who loves flipping, standing on, and tearing up any doghouse we give her, so I am hoping one built into the ground will be fairly mutt-resistant and warm

Krella, if your dog likes to dig they can wreck a cob dog house in no time. Sorry. Build something out of stone.
--Uncle Mud

She's not much of a digger, she prefers chicken chasing