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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: | |
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: | |
<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: | |
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: | |
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: | |
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). |