How to make adobe bricks

3/14/26:

This one couldn't be edited here, or at least not convenient at the moment. So I just copied it from the main blog, and reposted it here.

It's an old post I made just before I bought the property out west. The link below is actually in the county where my land is. (If memory serves.)

Some of the links don't work anymore, but I won't change anything. However, I will embed a video from a website mentioned in the links down below:



June 2014:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q451eExJlfw
The county seat of a west Texas county is made of adobe bricks

Update:

There's a bit more to making adobe bricks than the above video.

Here's another source, which describes how in a written format.

More pointers on how to find the right kind of soil to use.

Here's more in a pdf file.

Important!

How to process soil into its clay components.  This isn't as hard as it sounds.