Re: Life On The Hill
Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2014 3:50 pm
I have had several suggestions of better ways to clean the bricks. Rubbing them together so you get 2 instead of one, using one of those boot cleaners to scarp of the mortar, etc etc. Your idea would be great, except I have no electric down there in the woods yet. So I would have to load the bricks, carry then to the house, then clean them, then carry them back down to the woods. The best way I have found so far is sitting in a chair, using a rock hammer to knock of the thick mortar off, scraping the hammer across the brick to get the rest of the mortar off, and them putting them on the pallet . I have to handle each brick many time as I pick it up, clean one side, flip it over, clean another side, do the ends, do the sides, place it in a pile, then when I get enough, maybe 10 or 12 I get up, stretch my legs, and stack them on a pallet. Its not all that hard, its just labor intensive and time consuming.