Chapter 144 [Drawing the Sketch Yourself]

This piece of open land covers an area of ​​at least two acres, which is enough to build a large brick factory, plus the clay, the main raw material for bricks, is sourced locally. It also saves a lot of costs. When it is completed, it will not make a huge profit, so Belsinger is very excited.

I found a clean stone and sat down, looking at the open space in front of me, feeling very high-spirited. He took out a cigarette, lit it and said to Marbury beside him. "Send someone to your office and get me some blank paper, a ruler, a pencil and an eraser. I want to plan the open space in front of me."

What is this for? Isn't this a joke when your Mr. Singh, who has not graduated from high school, can draw engineering drawings? Marbury motioned with his eyes to many senior executives of the cement plant to stand aside, and then whispered to Belsinger.

"My lord, the drawings are all done by professionals. Can you do it well? Wouldn't it be nice for us to find a professional surveying and mapping engineering team to draw sketches and then give them to you for approval."

Look down on you, sir. In my previous life, I was engaged in the procurement of construction machinery. I have never drawn any kind of mechanical drawings. What's more, what I drew was a sketch, and I just briefly planned the layout of various facilities in the brick factory. Is it that difficult?

Let me show you Mr. Singh’s strength and show you bumpkins like you, how can you be called a talent? So he said with a smile. "Let you go, you can go wherever you want. So much nonsense. What I drew is a sketch, not a real rendering. I just arranged the various facilities of the brick factory where is there anything worth making a fuss about? Go quickly, before lunch. , I want to complete this sketch.”

The boss has given the order, so why is there any hesitation? Five minutes later holding the sharpened pencil. Bit by bit, Belsinger began to plan the location of various facilities in the brick factory. With just a few brush strokes, Marbury, who had a relatively strong professional quality, was so impressed. As expected, the master is very clever. A sketch can be very detailed, and the surrounding two acres of land can be clearly laid out at a glance.

Because all the clay was taken from the cliffs on the mountain, the brick kiln was located more than a kilometer away from the cliffs to prevent landslides. This brick kiln is planned to have 24 cave dwellings. The exterior is made of red bricks and cement, with a dry and compacted clay layer in the middle. Refractory bricks are stacked inside, with a large iron chimney in the middle and large blowers on both sides.

This brick kiln actually has 24 cave dwellings. The fires on both sides are cyclical for production. The number of bricks in the kiln should reach 400,000. There should be seven or eight workers in the kiln alone. The brick kiln is 5 meters above the ground and 8 meters from the foundation. This is to prevent the brick kiln from being collapsed by flooding.

The brick kiln is the main production tool and property of the brick factory. If the brick kiln collapses, the brick factory will disappear. Therefore, the brick kiln must be built at a height of 8 meters from the foundation, using clay, sand, gravel or even cement on a solid earth platform. There is a slight slope on the side, but using small donkeys as the main force of transportation and placing bricks on the electric trailers can fully meet the transportation needs. The 3-meter-high slope is not a big deal for these small donkeys.

After simply drawing a sketch of a brick kiln, we also planned the location of the mechanical production line of the brick factory, which is to place the production machinery two hundred meters away from the cliff edge. This place is close to the cliff to facilitate the transportation of clay. A cargo yard with a radius of more than one kilometer is planned next to the clay storage yard. This cargo yard is used to stack bricks. Another important raw material is furnace ash.

Then on the other side of the brick kiln, brick racks were built with a length of more than one thousand meters and a width of two meters, with a three-meter open space between the two rows. What sounds like a shelf is actually a long stone platform built off the ground with a foundation of more than 30 centimeters high and made of cement and bricks. The produced bricks are stacked on the stone platform, and a scaffolding is built at a height of two meters on the top of the stone platform to protect it from wind, rain and sunlight.

The length of one thousand meters can fully meet the normal needs of the brick factory, and even the other end of the brick shelf extends to the river. Then two drainage ditches were dug on both sides of the brick shelf and stone platform, so that rainwater in the rainy season can be discharged along these drainage ditches into the small river. A cement-floor house will be built at the beginning of every 50 brick racks. The house does not need to be large enough to accommodate ten people. These are the living places for the rack workers.

Their responsibility is to protect the safety of these bricks, maintain the normal operation of the scaffolding, and pick up used bricks to clear the drainage ditches. They are responsible for these tasks. The work was not tiring but not easy either. In less than an hour, this detailed sketch was drawn. Although it is a floor plan, the various plans are neat and organized, no less than a professional surveyor, which makes everyone feel surprised.

A total of more than 500 one-kilometer-long brick shelves will be built. From a high altitude, they look as uniform as farmland dogs. More than ten bungalows inhabited by shelf guards neatly guard these brick shelves, including machine moving production lines, and the brick kiln is vividly displayed in front of everyone. To explain to you in detail what is drawn above? As he drew, Belsinger explained to everyone what was on the drawing.

It was completed in half an hour, and Belsinger recorded it in detail. The machine team of the brick factory produced water bricks. That is, wet bricks. The working procedure is very simple. Mix the clay and furnace ashes according to the proportion, grind them, add water, and then squeeze them into long mud strips.

Through mechanical cutting, this long mud strip is cut into 30 water brick blanks, and then pushed onto the bamboo pallet. Ten pallets can complete the transportation of a cart of water brick blanks. What are the various vehicles used in the brick factory? One is that the water brick cart is very similar to the rickshaws in ancient times, which are pulled by manpower because there is a platform at the back. The wet brick blanks are placed on the bamboo woven board, so the back is heavy and the front is light, and the cart driver runs very easily.

In this way, a total of 50 carts are needed to operate. After the water blanks are produced by the machine, the vehicles are loaded to the brick rack. Then the workers take their own simple welded forks, fork the brick blanks and neatly stack them on the racks. Forking the water blanks requires frequent bending, and only healthy adult women and men can complete such a hard job.

When all the brick blanks are dried, the person responsible for drying the brick blanks will neatly stack these dry brick blanks on the small cart for transporting dry brick blanks. A vehicle can carry more than a thousand bricks, with a donkey in front as the main force and a driver to control the direction. These dry bricks are transported to the brick kiln, where professional kiln stackers neatly stack them in the kiln, and then seal the kiln door to burn red bricks.

Then the workers out of the kiln stack these still hot red bricks neatly on the kiln truck, 200 yuan per truck. Then they are transported to the freight yard next to the brick kiln, and these red bricks are stacked one by one, 200 yuan per brick, not more, not less. This completes the entire red brick production work. If this normal large brick factory is operating normally, the number of workers required should reach about 80.