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From YouTube: The CEB Story - To Build a Village - Open Source Ecology
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Here we describe our adventures with building to date, as we are developing open source equipment for all the tasks. This is towards creating the world's first replicable, post-industrial village.
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Here's
a
little
story
of
our
building
adventures
at
factory
farm,
which
leads
up
to
the
present
work.
With
a
CB
press,
we
started
with
Roland
Bert
built
an
earth
bag
structure.
Two
years
ago
we
built
the
cordwood
Edition
a
year
after
that
turns
out
earth
bag
building
and
cordwood
building
is
both
difficult
work.
All
along
I've
been
thinking
that
compressed
earth,
brick
Saar
the
best
they're
strong,
they're,
fast
to
build
with
and
they're
100%
natural.
A
What
more
could
I
ask
for
so
here
came
the
CB
press,
the
compressed
earth
block
press
I
took
some
metal
from
the
custom
fab,
a
bunch
of
drilled
holes
and
a
tad
of
welding
plug
this
into
the
tractor,
fired
it
up
and
pressed
the
first
brick.
We
moved
on
to
test
the
CB
press
in
the
field.
You
build
ourselves
an
open-source
tractor
first,
because
we
weren't
satisfied
with
the
industrial
tractors
just
kept
breaking
so
with
our
new
tractor,
which
we
call
the
life-giving
lifetime
design
life
track.
We
began
to
build.
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We
started
to
build
an
addition
right
behind
a
stick
frame
greenhouse,
so
the
greenhouse
would
not
be
blown
over
by
winds
that
huff
and
puff
quite
strongly
around.
Here
we
started
to
clear
off
the
area,
but
the
front
end
loader
was
not
much
good
and
a
hard
clay
soil.
We
tried
some
disking,
but
the
disking
did
not
go
too
deep
either.
We
then
sampled
the
soil
which
we
tilled
with
our
rototiller
contesta.
If
it
would
work
for
bricks,
it
has
to
have
sufficient
clay
to
stick
together,
but
not
too
much
to
make
it
crack.
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A
A
We
also
got
the
gravel
truck
in
for
the
addition
foundation.
We've
entered
a
test
run
to
see
how
many
bricks
we
could
press
in
a
sample
run
last
minute.
Justments,
we
were
ready
to
go,
remove
the
machine
into
position.
We
tilled
we
mixed
in
a
little
sand.
We
raked
it
fine,
and
then
we
pressed
for
per
minute
52
bricks
in
13
minutes
with
manual
loading
with
five-gallon
buckets.
We
could
do
that
the
whole
day.
We
would
press
about
2,000
bricks.
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A
A
No
honesty.
The
version
of
the
machine
with
a
manually
loaded
hopper
is
not
so
useful
because
it's
impossible
to
gather
15
people
so
you're
running
the
machine
way
under
its
capacity
with
two
people.
We
made
500
bricks
per
day.
On
average,
one
can
load
enough
soil
for
250
bricks
on
a
sustainable
basis.
That's
the
bottleneck.
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A
In
our
particular
case
for
the
number
of
people
we
had,
we
could
almost
do
what
we
did
with
a
manual
press,
that's
hard
to
admit,
but
it's
the
reality
see
the
YouTube
example
linked
in
a
blog
for
what
looks
like
an
effective
manual
press.
The
point:
is
our
machine
displays
its
rated
performance
where
we
think
it
could
get
eight
bricks
per
minute.
Only
when
we
have
a
large
hopper
that
we
can
load
with
a
front-end
loader,
that's
interesting.
A
This
makes
me
think
that
any
mechanized
press
on
the
market
with
a
small
hopper
like
ours,
is
really
being
oversold
any
of
UCB
Builders
out
there.
What
do
you
think
so?
We
will
be
building
the
big,
hopper
and
testing
the
performance
done.
That's
how
we
will
sell
the
basic
machine
with
a
big
hopper.
So
anyway,
we
pumped
out
almost
6,000
bricks
in
total
and
started
to
build
our
Edition.
A
A
Next
we
put
in
the
battery
bank
and
stove
into
place
before
the
walls
were
built.
We
leveled
the
foundation
tarred
the
bottom
course
of
bricks
and
started.
Laying
walls
went
up
rather
quickly,
except
when
frost
made
it
hard
to
get
the
bricks
off
our
piles
as
they
stuck
to
each
other.
Our
soil
mortar
froze
too,
and
a
section
of
wall
fell
down
when
a
mortar,
defrosted
and
shifted.
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A
We
then
laid
the
side
walls
put
OSB
panels
on
the
roof
and
basically
have
the
structure
closed
off.
On
the
inside.
We
cut
out
cut
out
windows
on
the
back
of
the
greenhouse
and
started
installing
some
of
these
windows.
That's
where
we
are
now
what
needs
to
be
done
still
finishing
details
more
straw
on
the
roof.
A
We
are
using
polyethylene
and
the
carpet
to
line
the
roof.
Then
straw.
This
should
last
50
years.
We
will
then
put
up
another
wall
on
the
inside
for
a
kitchen
and
utility
space
with
stove
lined
with
bricks
on
the
outside,
then
we'll
park,
the
tractor
inside
and
start
on.
The
second
prototype
of
the
CB
with
torch
table
fabrication
included,
will
actually
dig
inside
the
building,
both
to
test
the
new
CB
press,
the
Liberator
2,
and
to
dig
ourselves
a
deeper
workspace.
A
That
may
perhaps
be
converted
to
a
basement,
not
the
usual
way
to
do
it,
but
it
will
probably
work
well.
This
is
our
field
report
on
CB
building
so
far
open
source
equipment.
Some
local
resources
makes
for
a
healthy
start.
Now
we
almost
have
a
good
workshop
space
finished,
so
some
real
action
can
begin.
If
we're
going
to
house
30
people
soon,
we've
got
to
move
crash
course
on
open
source,
product
development
and
engineering
will
be
included.