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The brick oven

handmade process adobe brick

For handmade bricks must have good quality land, known as the black earth.

This information is extracted from the same soil of the land where the camp or "oven" or transported there from other areas of the district where there is availability.

The land is extracted with hydraulic excavators to a depth of less than 30 cm as existing ordinance.

Obtained then carries it to the sill, sector of the camp where he prepares oven the raw material for making brick.

A black earth, as every owner will add wood chips, sawdust, horse manure and wheat straw. It is usually extracted from equine interests and, what is commonly called, horse bedding.

to making the materials on the sill, are mixed, moistened and tamped, hence its name: sill. Currently this work is done with a tractor in approximately 7 to 8 hours before the sill is used horses, hence its name.

The tractor PTO it adds a "paddle mixer" that blends better and faster.

Once kneaded, it carries a forklift to the "field court" broad sector of the establishment on ground floor very well leveled and tamped.

Among the tools work that uses the "cutter", we can cite the wooden molds and cutting the bank where these are the bears "a mixture extracted from the sill." Then these patterns are turning neatly on the floor to dry the mud.

If weather conditions are more favorable drying fast. Dry weather usually favors tapárselos drying and frost in winter.

Once completely stripped of its moisture, the bricks are stacked in sheds or low ceiling on wooden benches.

After this stack neat, with forklifts or other item is being transported to the burner where the settlers prepare and assemble it with an amount of about 80 000 bricks.

These burners at the bottom left are approximately 16 openings called nozzles where you put the wood to feed the fire then burn the bricks to be transformed into bricks.

burner is lit and burns for approximately 8 hours, allowed to cool for about 4 or 5 days and then removed the brick and palletized on wooden pallets. These "pallets" and then wrapped with a plastic, transparent plastic type. Each pallet is about 800 bricks.

Then the bricks, ready to be marketed are loaded with a forklift to transport for distribution in corrals or works contracting.

Another way is to manually load the truck so-called "bulk."