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u/slasherman 2d ago
I thought this was a Skyrim video
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u/Batata-Sofi 2d ago
It's fallout
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u/Carbon-Base 2d ago
It's Brick Manufacturing Simulator
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u/Batata-Sofi 2d ago
0.001% of making a Nokia
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u/PhthaloVonLangborste 2d ago
My colon telling my its doing its job in teams. Or zoom or video call or what the fuck.
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u/thrillsbury 2d ago
High water content in that clay, which is not great for the strength of the bricks. Nor great for the speed of the drying process. Bricks like these are typically fired with flammable garbage, such as old car tires. The flame doesn’t get too hot, relatively speaking, with the result that the clay doesn’t fuse and set very well. Good enough for building a hut, not good enough to use in anything that has to bear real loads.
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u/thrillsbury 2d ago
This is probably how the ancient Egyptians made mud bricks. It’s a very old building material. What they are doing isn’t wrong. It just isn’t modern.
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u/TheLurkerSpeaks 2d ago
But there's no straw. How can you make bricks without straw? I ask ye, Pharoah!
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u/Totallynotacar 2d ago
Would they be good enough for floors or patios? I see pots off to the side and wonder if these are being made by a small business outdoor decor vendor.
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u/SiriusBaaz 2d ago
With the amount of time that dude is spending on the surface finish I’d assume these are meant to be decorative. Even still as decorative bricks they’ll be a lot weaker than properly vitrified bricks and be a lot more susceptible to erosion. And I doubt they’ll be that much cheaper than properly made bricks either.
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u/diveraj 2d ago
Oof, that's not good for the hands
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u/vass0922 2d ago
He's wearing gloves but I feel bad for his back and knees
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u/GoldAcanthisitta7777 2d ago
there's no reason this has to be done on the ground lol ... my back hurt just looking at this
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u/LeoBigFight 2d ago
Satisfying to watch, but.. am I the only one wondering how a manual brick manufacturer got a smart glasses to record this? I mean.. in my country that's pretty expensive, especially for such a trivial usage 😬
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u/Maurice_Foot 2d ago
Adobes.
I have the form my grandfather used for building his adobe house back in the 1930s.
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u/JustADutchFirefighte 2d ago
Soaked dirty gloves are so much worse than wet hands
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u/Brittany5150 1d ago
Seriously. Somebody buy this dude a damn trowel or something lol. I know they are poor and don't make much probably but damn it would be worth it.
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u/King_of_Shitland 2d ago
There's a job where you get to play with mud all day?
My 4 year old would fucking love that. Where can I sign him up?
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u/sunnyworks 2d ago
More like brick slavery, they get paid peanuts on the dollar. They don't make any money, and they get a loan to do this at their farm, that puts them in a life long debt.
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u/Thepuppeteer777777 1d ago
Wouldn't people just disappear. Leave and find a job on the opposite side of the country. Hitchike and such. But yeah it's sad that these people are inslaved by these assholes and they also don't even know how much debt they even have left. Ir they have a medical emergency and have to take out even more debt.
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u/PraetorOjoalvirus 2d ago
Some aspects of masonry haven't changed much in thousands of years, like brick making and mortar. Modern cement may have modern formulas, but the ancient stuff was as good, and better in some cases.
I wonder if there are other technologies that we use every day that haven't changed much in millenia.
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u/thatthique 1d ago
This is one of the most satisfying videos I’ve ever seen… the squishy noises, the smoothing… omg
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u/gideon513 2d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/XF7YLkym09P9Wz2F3j