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giling tanah) purchased for 900,000 Rp from

P.T. Pendawa Karya
gl. Gajah Mada
Tegal

(person in Dinas Perindustrian who purchased this equipment is Pak Suparno)

3. Large cement vat for mixing earth and sand

daytime crew consists of 3 persons handling earth mixing and 2 persons on each press = 7 total
the capacity of the pug mill exceeds that of the 2 pressed so often stands idle
question from Jeremy as to why the excess capacity of te pug mill was not being used to service other households in the village - response from soebekti and suhip was that they plan to do this in the near future
project is only 3 months in operation (hence machinery prices quoted above 


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are pretty current)
- Own trademark MGN (Mrangen)((MRN?)) 4 men working the tile presses can turn out 1200 tiles a day

in the evening hrs, 7:00 - 11:00pm, the presses worked by 1 man each
1 man working alone, they claim, can do 250 tiles
hence combined production of both presses is 1700 tiles a day

mix used is 3 pickuls of sand to 20 pickuls of earth

no info collected on profit - sharing arrangements on how persons get priverlege of working on project

price of tiles has gone up this yr. - pressed tiles now sell for +/- 40 Rp each and brasa flam for 15 - 20 Rp

don't know how sand and clay mixed in project vat, but don't [[ngluluh?]] (mix w/ feet)