Sounds like horseshit to me

Ken Uracius
---- Adrienne DeRan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: 
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> (Chuckle chuckle)
> Well, it is clearly something that was readily available 'back in the day.'  So, as Py said, it can be used to match colors.  I'm sure though that's not what the original masons/daubers/farmers etc. were thinking.  It was probably more like this, "Hey, (or 'hay' as the case may be) we got lime, we got sand...but what are we going to do with all this $#!+?"  Seriously though, the manure will add moisture to the mix, but not too much moisture - reducing the shrinkage (but not the stinkage).
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> -AD
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> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:10:31 +0000From: [log in to unmask]: Re: [BP] Spec mixTo: [log in to unmask]
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> If you understand the practical reasons behind this would you please clue me in. Is it some kind of secret sauce developed by Architects to punish masons? Ken Uracius 
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> Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:01:16 +0000From: [log in to unmask]: Re: [BP] Spec mixTo: [log in to unmask]
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> I think its great that historic work so often contains poo.  It makes me laugh.  Of course I understand the practical reasons behind this, but sometimes the 7-year-old in me breaks out... -AD
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> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:12:25 -0500From: [log in to unmask]: Re: [BP] Spec mixTo: [log in to unmask] ; On a practicle level send in a sample to the lab of what you want tomake custom ; Mike E provides this service almost better than anyone else ;if needed he will give you a print out ....and a list of historic sites where similar mixes were used ...for argument sake both he and John walsh can break it down foryou in physical terms  ten times better than anyone else ;.....me? My mix must hold sideways to the trowel for the 3-5 count ; if I want a soft mix(low psi )  I can guage type n with type s  ; add  soft brick or clay  tile dust;  for color  cow manure ;  red or yellow ochre ;  options  tennis court clay , fire clay ; or our red sand which has 27%  clay  ;all lovely sticky  stuff that takes twice as long to set ;but when it sets will never be too hard for the soft yellow 19tch cent brick we have and that would never survive ithe freeze thaw of yankeeland .Py**************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape.http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html -- To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html 
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