Serendipity! The fellow who installed our generator just happened to have a pile of firebricks in his back yard that was in his way. He and his friends were happy to get rid of them, and we were happy to take them off their hands. Our friends agreed to help us and lent their truck and trailer--just like the days of yore when hippies shared labor. We are waiting for him to call for us to help him with a big job at his place.
One load of good firebricks, heavy suckers they were, is loaded into the back of our friend's truck!
On the left are the light weight insulators, on the right are the HEAVY firebricks.
The brigade system required that one of the four of us was installed in the back of the truck! This time it was Marvin's turn.
We filled the wagon one box at a time!! Like ants we moved the pile from place to place.
Early morning start for the second day of gathering.
We promised to clean the place up, so we were compelled to collect the pile of rubble as well as the whole bricks that were neatly stacked. The rubble will be used as fill in the driveway or as a decorative wall somewhere in Terry's imagination.
Not to miss a thing, we of course carried away the old form for the curved top of a kiln.
Unloading the first of two big loads of bricks.
One of the pleas of the givers of the bricks was that the bricks would not sit in a field for years to come. Hopefully we can keep that hope alive...
