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Making concrete blocks is a really well founded business. Concrete blocks are very widely used to build a wide variety of projects. They are definitely a primary commodity of the building trades. They will always be in strong demand since they are so versatile.

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A part time cement block business can be started from your garage by making concrete blocks using just easily made hand molds. Plans with instructions for making these molds are readily available. You can make the hand molds from plywood and sheet metal. You then just fill them with the correct concrete mixture. The blocks are then removed from the molds and let dry before delivery to customers.

One person working alone can easily make 100 concrete blocks in a good days work. Many building supply stores are on the lookout for a local supplier who can sell concrete products to them at a good price. Since a local supplier has no transportation costs a very good profit can be possible while still keeping prices very competitive.

After a time, as the business grows, the demand for your blocks will probably exceed what you can turn out using only hand molds. You will now have to decide whether to make your part time business a full time enterprise.

You will need to make concrete blocks in large quantity. To do this successfully you will require a concrete block making machine.

Several manufacturers make cement block machines. Many of them are overseas however and the machines are relatively costly. If you feel that can afford the purchase go right ahead and buy your machine. They perform very well and will repay their high price with a large increase in production.

However there is another way to go--for much less money you can easily make your own concrete block making machine. Building a machine is a relatively easy project.

Plans, complete with instructions, are available and you can build a machine with which you can turn out 800 concrete blocks in a working day. The machine is constructed from new or used auto parts, sheet metal and a few bits and pieces. Its cost is only a fraction of the price of a commercial machine and it will perform every bit as well.

You may also want to build a smaller size, hand operated, machine which can make 200 blocks per day and is really simple to build and work with. You can then manufacture any required quantity of low cost concrete blocks. This enables the acceptance of large orders which you could not fill quickly using only hand molds.

When you are a concrete block manufacturer it is a obviously an excellent idea to also make other concrete items. You can make birdbaths, sundials, garden ornaments, concrete garden furniture, window boxes, patio slabs, really big vases and urns for the garden.

There is an excellent and growing demand for these types of product and they are highly profitable to manufacture. Your part time concrete business, which started out very small, has now become a very profitable full time enterprise which will produce a far better living than most jobs can.

It's easy to understand why action films routinely score well at the box office and remain one of the most popular of all film genres. There are plenty of chase scenes, high-tension dramatic moments involving the main characters, and enough suspense to keep you at the edge of your seat. Here are some of the best action films produced in the '90's, all of which are worth a second look.

Air Force One

This film stars Harrison Ford, who was the king of action movies for quite a while, and Gary Oldman as his villainous counterpart. Ford plays the role of the U.S. President and his Air Force One private plane is hijacked by Oldman and his gang of thugs because they intend to hold the President hostage, to get their demands met. There are not only some great action scenes, but the movie was praised for the acting efforts by Ford, Oldman, and co-star Glenn Close, who portrays the Vice-President.

Con Air

Nicolas Cage stars in this film as a convict who was imprisoned for hitting a man in order to protect his pregnant wife. As he and other prisoners are being transported by bus to another facility, a breakout occurs and all the prisoners band together to hijack a transport plane, which they use to fly to a deserted air strip. The thing that makes this film so interesting are the quirky characters among the prisoners, chiefly their leader, played by John Malkovich.

Independence Day

The threat of an alien invasion is the main story line in this movie, and on hand to prevent that invasion are the irrepressible Will Smith, and the science fiction film master, Jeff Goldblum. Goldblum is the mastermind who figures out a way to defeat the aliens, and Smith is the cocky Air Force pilot who does the necessary flying to deliver the knockout punch to the aliens.

True Lies

The real appeal of this movie is that it's a perfect combination of comedy, action, and drama. Of course the fact that the adorable Jamie Lee Curtis has a sexy role in it did not deter from its box office appeal. The plot revolves around undercover agent Arnold Schwarzenegger doing his best to save the world from terrorists, while his wife is seemingly having an affair.

Point Break

There was automatic star appeal for this movie, which co-starred Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves, with lots of incredible surfing footage included in the story line. Reeves plays the role of an undercover agent attempting to bring Swayze and his group to justice for some recent robberies, and the interplay between the two stars is as fascinating as the action scenes.

Speed

This was a Keanu Reeves vehicle which co-starred a young Sandra Bullock and a grizzled Dennis Hopper as the villain. Hopper plants a bomb aboard a city metro bus, which is set to explode if the bus drops below 55 mph. Reeves is a cop who gets himself placed on the bus to help driver Bullock, and together they have to figure out how to stop the bus without getting it blown up.

The Matrix

Another film starring Keanu Reeves, The Matrix had some intriguing ideas, beginning with the notion that everything we see in the waking world is a mere projection meant to deceive us. The real world is much uglier, and is suppressed from the minds 울산룸싸롱 of humans, because they would be aghast if they saw it. Reeves plays the role of Neo, a hero prophesied in ancient times who would come to rescue humans from their enslavement to The Matrix.