Posted: 7/21/2012 6:48:11 PM EDT
This guy's quite the mason:
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Sorry, some hack slinging block is not a mason. The men who built buildings like this knew the craft and would laugh this guy off the job. http://www.fortwortharchitecture.com/knights.jpg http://media.point2.com/cdr/listing/7509/f681/e6a8/8eaca5961a90266a9f5a/w475h356wm.jpg Yep, laying block is an idiots game. I want to see him set-up a "fireplace" with the correct angles to draw. I want to see him set-up and lay a circular stoop / steps. I want to see him cut and lay an unsupported keystone jack arch. I want to see him cut and lay an unsupported ogee arch. I want to see him cut and lay an unsupported lancet arch. |
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Almost anyone can lay block. You would think so.....I just poured a stamped porch for a guy that laid up his own frost wall. Holy crap, I had to shim that thing out 3 inches on one end to get square. He came home and said "Man, how did I get off that much", I asked him if he used a string line and he just gave me a blank look. 
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Almost anyone can lay block. Wrong.  Right. Not much to it. I was making a personal ability comment.
I had a job 40 years ago being a brick layer helper. I wasn't too good when they would let my try and lay the bricks they were laying. Took an 8 year apprenticeship to become a licensed bricklayer in Michigan back then. I gained ALOT of respect for their skills when I had that job. |
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Don't kid yourself, that guys damn good. No wasted motion, no having to rebutter a missed joint, no having to stop and check his cross level, Anyone can lay block but at the end of a day that guy would have smoked just anybody's ass. +1. Also, all you basement dwellers cutting up his skills have apparently never tried to one-hand 60lb blocks for 8-10 hours a day. If you mouthed off to this guy in person, he would just grab you and squeeze off whatever he grabs you by. NEVER mess with a mason. They are RUGGED. |
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Don't kid yourself, that guys damn good. No wasted motion, no having to rebutter a missed joint, no having to stop and check his cross level, Anyone can lay block but at the end of a day that guy would have smoked just anybody's ass. +1. Also, all you basement dwellers cutting up his skills have apparently never tried to one-hand 60lb blocks for 8-10 hours a day. If you mouthed off to this guy in person, he would just grab you and squeeze off whatever he grabs you by. NEVER mess with a mason. They are RUGGED. I would say that comment is kinda GHEY.  Ghey until you realise that you are correct sir.
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Don't kid yourself, that guys damn good. No wasted motion, no having to rebutter a missed joint, no having to stop and check his cross level, Anyone can lay block but at the end of a day that guy would have smoked just anybody's ass. +1. Also, all you basement dwellers cutting up his skills have apparently never tried to one-hand 60lb blocks for 8-10 hours a day. If you mouthed off to this guy in person, he would just grab you and squeeze off whatever he grabs you by. NEVER mess with a mason. They are RUGGED. They guy I used to work for, and the guy that got me into the trade has hands like bear paws and bowling balls for shoulders. He can just grab me and lift me up like I wasn't even there. That being said. I have only been a mason for going on 8 years now (almost 2 running my own business) but I was a wedding this summer and we were all just hanging out talking. One of my friends suddenly just yells "Oh My God!", and I asked him what happened. He said "Are your hands really that calloused?" Stark difference between a tradesman's hands and a desk worker's. |
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Quoted: Quoted: lot of haters in this thread. I think he did well. There's alot of people here that have never laid block. That guy makes it look easy. geezus that guy isn't "slinging" mortar the professionals always make stuff look easy i'd like to see our resident experts butter blocks like that guy, since obviously our experts are qualified to do it anybody that's ever actually done that shit can see he's perfected the art but, i'd like to see if this dude could do moar like someone said above, let's see some circular work |
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Everyone here forgets that this site is full of PhDs with 500K/month salaries and that tradespeople are just uneducated scum that is to be looked down upon.
Until their pipes leak, or their light fixture shits out, or their car breaks down, or they need to build an outbuilding, or.... |
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Thats nothing short of amazing. I can barely keep a hat on my head. |
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I've laid my share of block and laid some the other day for a backup wall but I never reached that guy's level of efficiency. There's an art to handling a trowel like that when a top mason makes the grainy mud look like puddy. This. I found the guy's facility with the trowel fascinating. |