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Amazing Brick Machine Rolls Out Roads Like Carpet

Posted November 15, 2010 10:59 AM

From Inhabitat:

Brick roads are beautiful and durable, but we don't see them too often due to the effort it takes to produce them. What once was a labor-intensive, back-breaking job has now become a snap with this automatic Dutch paver laying machine, called the Tiger-Stone. The device rolls out a beautiful and sustainable hardscape, creating an instant road anywhere it travels. While the process may look magical, the secret lies in a smartly designed gravity-based system.

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11/15/2010 3:22 PM

Nice. I assume as long as the subsurface is done well, this will be a smooth road too? The brick and cobble roads I rode on in Europe were better than most bumpy horrible brick roads I have found in Virginia, Florida and West Texas; I wonder what the difference is?

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11/16/2010 8:05 AM

Roman Engineers.

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11/16/2010 10:31 AM

That would do it. Anyone who builds roads on fagots (pg 31 second paragraph) knows what they are doing!

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11/15/2010 10:41 PM

brilliant.

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11/16/2010 11:39 AM

There were numerous brickyards in my local, all closed down, some have been closed for several years and the sources for the clay, covered with strip malls and subdivisions. Would we have to get the bricks from China?

On a positive note, the bricks would be handy for political parades.

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