Mark C. Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 In the pottery area about 2.5 hours outside Phnom Penh there is a very old brick factory. This country is built on these type of bricks. They are used everywhere for everything . From buildings to walls .They are usually skim coasted with cement after laying them up..This factory is very old the 5 kilns are huge long camber kilns on a hillside-fired with local wood. Two of the 5 kilns where firing when we dropped by for a look . One woman was lightly stoking one kiln. They mine the clay from river and extrude the bricks and slow dry in shade and fire -They haul them up hill by hand and load kiln in side chambers-after firing they unload and carry down the hill. I crawled into one empty chamber about 1/2 way up hill and took the photo looking down hill toward stoke hole-these kilns are a few hundred feet long.This place was all manual labor except for a backhoe and power extruder..The clay is brown until low fired to an orange teracota color. All bricks have 4 holes in them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted February 16, 2017 Report Share Posted February 16, 2017 Now THAT is a KILN! Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
graybeard Posted February 17, 2017 Report Share Posted February 17, 2017 Great stuff Mark, Thanks for posting. graybeard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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