traditional industry || Making manual bricks for building materials

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To produce good red bricks, it is necessary to have a good soil selection.
Red soil is good, usually there are hills and the texture of the soil is very tough. Does not contain too much sand. Because this sandy textured soil will reduce the strength of the bricks. The next step that needs to be done is to clean up the remaining rubbish such as grass, small stones and so on. Then soaking clay or clay into a hole that has been provided, a minimum of 15 hours or more depending on the clay where you come from. After that the land must be smoothed, can use a hoe or soil grinding machine. This is done because to produce good red bricks, the soil texture must be smoothed first. Then the mud or clay is placed on the printing table. After finishing, approximately 15 hours later, the raw material for making the red brick is ready to be printed, and don't forget to sprinkle a little ash into the mold so it is not sticky. If the clay is square shaped like a brick, then we can do the drying. The cooling phase aims to make the bricks dry quickly. Can be done by stacking bricks that are still shaped by tilting the ground earlier. Then, when it is dry, the next step is to arrange bricks, from the brick building refineries to the place of construction. Then the combustion stage, the burning of bricks is the determining step where we can be said to be successful or less successful. Because at this stage there will be burning where we work. And usually takes a long time. Depending on how many bricks we burn.
The stages of burning raw bricks.
The next step after the raw bricks that have been dried is arranged in the prepared combustion kitchen. After that we also have to prepare the fuel, such as wood or can also use the remaining ingredients processed rice or called a straw. But before use, these need to be dried in order to facilitate combustion. Then we just need to do the combustion stage by inserting wood or straw under the bricks. Then we enter the stage of making a wall around the arrangement of bricks. The goal is to accelerate the temperature in the bricks so that they rise quickly. It should be noted that the fire should not be dimmed. Increasingly the day must be more widespread or increased in volume. The closing phase of the fire pit aims to prevent the fire from coming out. And the sign of the end of the combustion process is marked by if the smoke that is at the top of the bricks had already dried up or if we see only such a blazing air. However, this stage has not yet been completed. there is still a finishing stage, namely the stage of watering the top of the bricks with chaff. The duration of the burning process depends on how many bricks you burn. For example, if 60,000 bricks, you need 6 days 6 nights non-stop. After being burned then cooled. Only the bricks are ready to be sold or used for building materials. With the price of one brick ranging from 300 to 500 rupiah. Does not include postage.