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David Axt, AIA, CCS, CSI
Senior Member
Username: david_axt

Post Number: 592
Registered: 03-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 07:53 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

That has to be a total load of crap!

Check out page 16 December issue of The Construction Specifier.

I did a search on the internet and have not found any information on cement made with dog feces.

I know the in many undeveloped countries that they use dung in the adobe bricks and even cook (yuck) over a dung fire. But dog feces cement?

I guess that I will have to start forgetting the "5 second rule" about picking up dropped food.
Ron Beard CCS
Senior Member
Username: rm_beard_ccs

Post Number: 91
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Tuesday, December 20, 2005 - 09:10 pm:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

<use dung in the adobe bricks and even cook (yuck) over a dung fire>

No not "yuck," it's "yack." In Tibet, they make bricks from yack dung. Years ago we had one of our CSI members returned from a trip to Tibet to show slides of their yack dung roofs - some up to 3 feet deep. IIRC, he was on the NRCA board of directors at the time.

Ron
Lynn Javoroski
Senior Member
Username: lynn_javoroski

Post Number: 273
Registered: 07-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 09:56 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Google Friedrich Lentze instead; this is but one of the sites that turned up:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1740202,00.html

He's evidently quite the weirdo. (And isn't it "yak"?)

People have cooked over similar materials for years; if there's stuff that will burn, we can have heat - peat, for instance, is commonly used for fires. And, if you are a nomadic tribe with some sort of herd animal, your fuel is very portable!
Robert E. Woodburn
Senior Member
Username: bwoodburn

Post Number: 95
Registered: 01-2005
Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 10:35 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Fuel, maybe...but I wouldn't use it in my smokehouse.
Tracy Van Niel
Senior Member
Username: tracy_van_niel

Post Number: 147
Registered: 04-2002
Posted on Wednesday, December 21, 2005 - 11:00 am:   Edit PostDelete PostPrint Post

Well if anyone wants to get started in production, I have four dogs that would contribute (although they are small dogs so maybe they would just help make the small bricks).

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