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Coke-in-MN 
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 Topic: Auto Bricklayer - coming to the US
Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 9:31am |
Auto Mobile Bricklayer An Australian company has developed what it says is the “world’s first mobile robotic blocklaying system,” and it’s bringing it to market in the United States. FBR’s Hadrian X truck-based robotic bricklayer has already built masonry brick homes and other buildings in Australia and plans to start doing the same in the U.S. in 2024. The robot can lay more than 240 concrete masonry blocks per hour, the company reports, adding that the machine increases safety, requires fewer workers and reduces environmental impact. It can also build homes cheaper than conventional methods, FBR says. (To watch the Hadrian X laying bricks, check out the videos at the end of this story.) https://www.equipmentworld.com/construction-equipment/article/15659338/mobile-bricklaying-robot-hadrian-x-coming-to-us-video?utm_medium=email&utm_content=12-09-2023&utm_campaign=EQ_NL_Equipment+World+Weekly&utm_source=EQ_NL_Equipment+World+Weekly&ust_id=5f848f630ba30c50dca4762a9ae421a910cfcd2b&oly_enc_id=0563B7156245G0T
Edited by Coke-in-MN - 10 Dec 2023 at 9:34am
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Lars(wi)
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 10:49am |
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No mortar?
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 11:31am |
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Yes, I was wondering that too. no mortar, no sticky together...
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 12:06pm |
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lay alot of block and pay for alot of labor for the cost of that piece of machinery
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 12:31pm |
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i am sure some one has to spread the the morter and not get in the machines way, and what about morter consistacy and temp changes for those few seconds the block has to be held on the morter to stay plumb and leval. what a bout the mantiance to keep it acruatere their has to be alot of wear on pins and bushings at 200 movements per hour
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 12:39pm |
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All your concerns are supposedly factored in to the programming and appears to use a special adhesive. It's only a matter of time where it becomes commonplace, given the declining supply of able bodied people willing to work a job like that. The real challenge will be the incorporation of mechanical, plumbing and electrical systems as block is set.
Read a recent article where a 3D printed house was demolished because it failed compression standards in the concrete mix. We have a ways to go
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 1:09pm |
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Great. Another reason for more people to not work. And no accountability.
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 2:37pm |
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 5:30pm |
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I haven't seen ANY concrete block walled around me in decades. They ALL form and pour. even then ,some can't get that right even with lasers ! Next door house was off 2", garage almost 6" !!! That wall was tore down,hauled away and redone. idiots...... 2nd time it was off an inch and a half in 24 feet.... Dang ancient pyramid builders did better !!!
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Posted: 10 Dec 2023 at 7:56pm |
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I was hired to backfill a neighboring house ,
When I met the carpenters on site the block layer had put in 2 - 2x4 braces on the back wall inly in 45ft of wall .
After looking at the job I told carpenter before I backfilled it I wanted more bracing on back walls , end walls braced , and as it was a walkout front bracing at end of side walls.
Basement was 6" out of square , 3" height difference across the back wall , and the 2 end walls were 2" difference in height .
Next none of the block had been struck on joints from footing to top block .
Said I would backfill it but no closer than 1 ft from walls except for what cascaded in as I brought material up . Was sand so not that bad but I worried the full time about wall collapsing . (house is still standing)
Carpenter said worst block job he ever seen . I had to agree !
Did another job where blocks were dry set with a mastic bead , then before backfill a membrane material was applied with a mastic to bond blocks to each other .
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Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 10:27am |
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Is an auto-brick layer any different than an automatic burger maker? Employers cannot afford to hire people or can cut their costs by getting rid of the people.
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Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 2:07pm |
I did not see any mortar, or special adhesive. Even if some one was to slap the adhesive on the head joints the machine just drops the block straight down, it would literally scrape the head joint clean. What a joke.
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Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 3:23pm |
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Probably a dry fit for demonstration. Not supporting it but a sign of the times. My BIL farms 800 acres. Does not want either of his sons to pick up the torch. Common theme for parents I know. Encouraging kids to avoid trade jobs
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Posted: 11 Dec 2023 at 5:21pm |
says the block has adhesive applied, could also jsut be a demo, without. I guess there will be some PO'd union mortar forkers, out there... Oh well too bad, so sad.
But can it do this?
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Posted: 13 Dec 2023 at 7:20pm |
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Thats real funny Dave--
Edited by DougG - 14 Dec 2023 at 4:10am
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