Earth mill for brickmaking

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With your donation, a brickmaker can have a small machine that helps him/her to work and improve his/her life.

The mill costs only US$ 2,500.oo and saves up to 4 hours every day.

Here is the history:

"The workday of Cristobal Flores used to start at 3 o´clock in the morning. In the cold of the early morning, at 2800 m over the sea level, Cristobal mixed the earth deposited in his back yard with sawdust, soaked the mixture and started to trample it to grind and homogenize it, with his bull “Martin”. Four hours later, the mixture was ready to mould and be converted into raw bricks..."

Read the full history in:

http://english.ecosur.org/content/view/370/285/

Contributors' Messages

If you ever have seen how hard it is to tread clay, you feel compelled to help.....let alone when you consider how cold it is in the Andes. I happen to know the Institution that guides this project. claudio, Sep 9, 2009