![]() Total of 1,107,000 shillings per month.Īssuming a high downtime of 15 days a month, this will leave us with a net profit of 553,500 per month. That leaves us with 36,900 shillings per day. Maintenance and any other unforeseen operating expenses will take about 10,000 shillings per day. Labour will, on the higher side, take 5,700 shillings per day. At the current price of about 104 shillings per litre, that comes to about 10,400 shillings per day. Generator will take about 100 litres of diesel per day. At a lease rate of 3 shillings per stone, 3,000 blocks will cost 9,000 shillings per day. On the lower side, total sales come to 75,000 shillings per day. ![]() Current prices are 25 shillings per stone. This varies, depending on the coral properties at any given sector. One set of machine produces anywhere between 3,000 and 8,000 blocks per day. Having a quarry also has the advantage of widening one’s customer base to include walk-in customers out to bridge the supply and demand gap in the entire market. This is what has inspired me to venture into this project. My quarry visits reveal that there is a correspondingly low number of machine cut block quarries, compared to the demand for the blocks. At every quarry that I visit, I find lorries queuing, waiting for stones to be harvested for them to load. In order to understand this phenomenon, I have been making frequent visits to the stone quarries in Kilifi. Over this period, I have always been intrigued at the lead time in ordering and receiving machine cut coral stone blocks for construction. I have been in the construction industry for the last 6 years. The business is very labour intensive as a close watch needs to be done on the machinery and quantity of blocks produced. Routine maintenance costs will be a big factor as the circular saw blades will occasionally wear out the diamond studs and also sometimes crack the metal plates. Loaders earn a current rate of 1shilling per stone. Labour is reasonably cheap, with machine operators earning an average of 600 shillings per day. This can be done till we can afford to buy ours. This one can initially be leased at a rate of about 7,000 shillings per hour. There is also need for an excavator for clearing the ground before starting to harvest in each successive sector. A new one, depending on the make, costs between 3,000,000 to 4,000,000 shillings. A second hand one can go for approximately 2,500,000 shillings. Then there is the generator, with an ideal one having a capacity of 200 to 250 KVA. Though the costs of travelling to ascertain quality and the lack of after sales service might reduce the gains of money saved on initial purchase from any of these countries. Importing from India, Italy and China are other options. Locally made, each machine costs 800,000 shillings. A set of machinery consists of one vertical cutter and one horizontal cutter. It makes more sense to lease land and pay only for actual stones harvested. Leasing land costs 3 shillings per stone harvested. More often than not, most sellers are selling parcels of land measuring either 6 acres or 12. Kilifi, Kenya is the proposed area of operation.Īn acre of land in Kilifi goes for about 200,000 shillings. In coral stone block cutting one starts off by either buying or leasing land. Assuming a high downtime of 15 days a month, this will generate a net profit of 553,500 per month. The business will bring a total of 1,107,000 shillings per month. Help us restore our precious coral reefs in real life and in Minecraft.Machine Cut Blocks Project (Business plan) Transforming coral could happen naturally or semi-automatically using a complex redstone machine. To prevent coral from transforming players' builds, they could use halfslabs or double halfslabs. This process can be hurried along by bonemeal. Once the coral has advanced past the final growth stage they should spread to the attached stone block, transforming it into a coral block of the corresponding colour. Coral and coral fans should use their random block tick to check their attached block is stone or cobblestone and, if it is, they should advance to the next growth stage. Like saplings, a coral fan or coral may go through a number of growth stages. I propose that, much like real life, coral or coral fans transform stone blocks they are attached to into a coral block of the corresponding colour. In real life coral grows on hard structures underwater, most commonly rocks. ![]() Since coral is a living organism, it stands to reason that it should be able to spread. Coral blocks are one of the most gorgeous blocks in the game. ![]()
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