Our local cinder block factory is only 8 miles away, which is an important detail I left out of yesterday's post on saving money when buying rejected cinder blocks.

Another big advantage to getting blocks directly from the source is the ability to have them forklifted into the back of your truck. It just takes a few seconds to slide off the tailgate, which allows the forklift guy to push the cube back towards the wheel base.

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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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