Tools for building a rammed earth wall

Tools for building a rammed earth wall include a pair of wall sieves, two mortars and pestles (also known as pounding sticks), a number of round wooden stretches, a large clapperboard, a number of small clapperboards, a disk of rope, a Lu Ban ruler or Yang Gong ruler, a short wooden ruler, a triangular ruler, a level ruler, a hammer, a hammer, a shovel, a pickaxe and a number of mud knives, a bamboo scraper, a hoe, a wooden shovel, and a dustpan.

Wall sieve made of old hard cedar, slightly rough outside, but inside the flat. Specifications are generally 1.5 ~ 2m long, 40cm high, 7cm thick board, its shape is similar to the wooden brick mold, if the construction of round earth building wall

Screen is made of curved shape. One end of the wall sieve is open, made of hardwood "wall card" support, into the "H" shape, non-open end to "wall needle" fixed. The "wall pin" is two molded seals fixed with tenons, so that the wall sieve can be disassembled flexibly, and the inner space of the wall sieve can be changed arbitrarily. The inner space is the thickness of the wall that is constructed

. Rammed earth wall of pounding pestle stick, with heavy solid and not easy to crack the wood made of, weighing about 5 ~ 10kg. pestle stick two ends of a big head small, about 8 ~ 10cm in diameter, the middle part of the cut to the appropriate for the hand shall prevail, there is no standard. The length is about the same as the height of a person. Wall sieve filled with virtual soil with a small head tamping, to be tamped more or less and then use the big head tamping flat. The size of the clapboard is also made of mixed wood, large clapboard length of about lm, small clapboard length of 20cm, width of about 7cm, are round handles, oily surface. Role is: hairy wall rammed into a version of the wall sieve a dehiscence, with a large clapboard reclap hairy wall on both sides of the wall skin, so that the wall skin hard; small clapboard is used to make up for the wall to repair the light wall surface.