Project Updates

Scrapin', scrapin', and scrapin'. The brick pile didn't seem to get much smaller.

Mechanical aids? US Patent #4557246 is for a brick cleaning machine (a brick is moved by conveyor through a series of cleaning stations). Might that be a cost effective way to accelerate my project?

Ultimately, I decided to outsource.

The workman was late, naturally, but he still toiled for 5 and 1/2 hours while I chipped in for two.



Good brick pile. Good bricks. Good.


Near the bottoms of the tumble are broken bricks, too many for a single collection day. Typically on Monday mornings (the beloved garbage day!) I push my wheel-barrow up and down the block dropping 4 or 5 broken pieces into each neighbors refuse container. One neighbor has two black bins, into which my spillover waste is frequently deposited. As part of an unspoken exchange, I often wheel his trash containers to and from the curb, before and after pickup.

I'll have this brick thing licked by the summer.