Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

That definitely works. The soil cement I mention doesn't need any pressure.
I've tried it and it pours like cement in a mold. It's not technically
structural material for houses (could be except for codes) but has endless
uses, yard structures, retaining walls, roads, sidewalks. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 1/21/2008 at 5:05 PM Ken Hargesheimer wrote:

>I saw my first home made of soil/cement in 1989 in Dominican Rep. 
>Beautiful.  
>   
>  First brick press was invented in Colombia by an engineer named Ramirez.
>It was called Cinvaram press.  I ordered one for a man in NM in the late
>80s.  Shipping was $250.  They are made in nearly all developing
>countries.  In 1995 in the Ivory Coast I went to a welder with a man who
>ordered one.  US$100.
>   
>  If there is free labor, it is the lowest cost home possible to build. 
>The press provides 25,000 pounds pressure and is equal to a fired brick.
>In Malawi I saw operating a press from South Africa that produced over a
>1200 brick per day.  Took 12 men to operate the total process.
>   
>  Ken H
>