CEB Press Product Page
2022
Thanks for your interest. It's $10k for the machine, without power unit. It can be powered by tractor hydraulics. Shipping is on top of that. If that is outside of the USA, shipping cost my be high. We sell the Power Cube - the hydraulic power unit - which produces 6 block per minute for $4.
But we can't deliver until 2023, as we are doing a product release of the See Eco-Home in 2022.
See https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2 - which we sell at a turnkey build price of $100k, customer providing land and covering utility hookup and other legal/local costs.
The CEB press only includes the machine for $10k at these specifications:
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press#Specifications_of_the_Standard_Model
In 2023, we plan on building Seed Eco-Homes with CEBs. We would be interested in collaboration on designing the CEB version of the Seed Eco-Home.
Marcin
2021
It's $10k for the machine, and $4k for the power cube which produces 6 block per minute. But we can't deliver until after Feb 1, 2021, when we are doing a product release of the See Eco-Home -
see https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/Seed_Home_v2 which we sell at a turnkey build price of $100k, customer providing land and covering utility hookup and other legal/local costs.
CEB press only includes the machine for $10k at these specifications:
https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/CEB_Press#Specifications_of_the_Standard_Model
and a Power Cube for pressing 6 block per minute is another $4k.
However, you'd have to have a forklift to move the machine around, is it doesn't come on a trailer. Shipping is not included - or you can pick up the assembled machine from our site. The shipped machine would come on a flat bed trailer, and you would be responsible for unloading.
Let me know if this is something you are interested in.
Marcin
FAQ
- If I wanted to transport thebrick machine around to different work sites would having a trailer be the only way to make that happen? This machine we sell is ready for operation, but does not come on a trailer. A trailer is not needed if you are using the machine as part of a stationary production facility. You will need forks on a tractor to move it around. Since heavy machines and fork attachments are an essential component of any serious brick pressing operation - we do not build a trailer with the machine. That would be an extra cost. The trailer is convenient if you want to move the machine around from site to site. Depends on your use case.
- How much does the machine weigh. 1600 lb.
- How much does the power cube weigh? 500 lb.
- It seems like, if I want to own this machine I would also need to own a truck, a trailer and a forklift in order to move it to and from work sites? You bring up a system design question for a block-pressing operation. Any operation that uses the full output of our machine requires other heavy equipment to be on site: soil preparation equipment such as a mechanized soil conditioner/mixer, a tractor to dig soil, a trailer to transport block, and fork attachment on a tractor/skid loader to move pallets of block. Thus, if your operation already has such heavy equipment, a trailer is not necessary but only convenient. But this question does point out that you can't just press block with the machine - you need other heavy equipment. If you don't have such equipment, then this machine can only put out a small fraction of its potential production rate - and an investment in our machine would not redeem its value and machine use would likely be abandoned. For example, you would need about 30 people to load soil to keep up with the machine if they are digging soil with buckets for an 8 hour shift. The reality is that this machine is difficult to make work in a practical way if you do not have supporting machinery.
