Making 2600 blocks
5 at a time
In a 55 gallon mixer that probably can only be filled to 40 or 45 gallons without stuff slopping out.
You will need around 500 or more barrel-batches to get your blocks. If you are only making one barrel load a day, it will take you at least 2 years just to make the blocks. Then there is the time needed to lay them up, mortar them, plaster... etc.
That sounds like trying to fill a swimming pool with an eyedropper.
Some people might have the patience to stay with it and keep making a few blocks a day, but I think I might go out of my mind. (and I don't have much of my mind left.)
A barrel mixer can be excellent for mixing batches of papercrete mortar, or maybe plaster, but the volume needed for blocks or filling walls really cries out for larger production equipment.
--- In papercreters@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Fant <jerryfant@...> wrote:
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> Slurryguy is absolutely right the manufacture of blocks is very time consuming. I make blocks that are 12" long, 8" wide, and 6" thick. I drain the mix into a draining bin for about an hour to collect almost half my water back. Then I pour into my block forms on top of screened tables and capture more water. After about 20 minutes I can remove the forms. I built a blender from an old 55 gallon barrel outfitted with a 4 horse motor with a weed-eater blade modified. From the the barrel I get about 5 1/2 blocks on average. I can roll the blocks in about a day, and move them to setting tables in about 3 days. I have made longer blocks up to 4' long, but they take incredibly longer to dry enough to move them. I am needing about 2600 blocks. I do not make blocks everyday, but when I do it's about 20-25 blocks. At the moment it feels like it is going to take forever to make enough blocks to start.
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> Jerry
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