2021 SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 World Championship
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- The official 2021 SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 World Championship rebroadcast.
Las Vegas, NV - He laid 678 in only one hour! Mason David Chavez and mason tender Guadalupe Hernandez with Ranch Masonry in Houston, TX teamed up to earn the title, “World’s Best Bricklayer.” This is the second time Chavez has earned the World Champion title, winning it all in 2018. The recognition comes after winning the most exciting contest in masonry, the SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500®. 20 of the best masons and tenders in the world came together at the World of Concrete expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center to test their skill, speed and stamina by battling to determine who can build the largest and best 26-foot-long brick wall, with the least amount of errors, in one hour. The event headlined the first convention of its size to be held in Las Vegas since efforts to combat the pandemic caused a national shutdown.
It was an action-packed competition featuring some of the most decorated craftsmen in North America. Not even temperatures in the 90’s could slow down Chavez, as he earned the keys to a new Ford F250 4×4 Super Duty Truck, $5,000 in cash, a Multiquip Essick Pro12 Mortar Mixer and other great prizes.
Chavez felt confident coming into the event, saying, “I feel happy and I want to say thank you to Ranch Masonry for supporting me. I’m ready to get to work preparing for next year.“
The SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 World Championship title wasn’t the only prestigious award handed out during the event. For the third year in a row, mason Darian Douthit and mason tender Nigel Delmez won the SPEC MIX TOP CRAFTSMAN, which goes to the team with the “most sellable” wall, as determined by a panel of judges. For his precision, Douthit is taking home a new Kubota RTV-X1140, $5,000 in cash, an Essick Pro12 Mortar Mixer along with additional sponsorship prizes.
Learn more at www.specmix.com
Douthit said, “I’m feeling really great. When you are going up against the best, you never know what is going to happen. Winning the SPEC MIX TOP CRAFTSMAN was my goal, and I’m happy for the chance to return again next year to defend the title.’
With over $125,000 in cash and prizes to be earned, masons from across North America were invited to Las Vegas to compete in the SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 after winning a regional series qualifying event. 16 regional series competitions were held in 2020, shy of the typical 24, due to local restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic. Along with two returning automatic qualifiers (World Champion and SPEC MIX TOP CRAFTSMAN) and four Wild Card qualifiers, 20 total masons lined the arena in Las Vegas for one of the most exciting and anticipated events in the world of masonry. Before the competition, two mason and tender teams were forced to withdrawal.
With workforce development being the primary battle cry for the skilled trades, the SPEC MIX BRICKLAYER 500 is a tool designed to create interest from a new generation of masons in the rewards and opportunity possible in masonry and construction.
Masonry changed my life. The decisions I made under the bottle took it all away. Now laying the foundation to get back there one day at a time. Much love brothers
It's a passionate trade. Have to care.
Your gonna make an epic comeback brother! Rooting and praying for you
keep pushing you got it
Most masons I worked with were drunks/junkies idk why that would stop you from doing it?
You can do it brother I want my own business so bad I had it once but I just love it man been doing since I've been 10 in the summer with my pap it's in my blood
My father, Joe Kane, was the best in St. Louis in his day. He passed on Christmas Day, 1992.
Had fifty years in Union! He will be missed. Barry Kane.
Fucking national anthem before brick laying contest, you yanks kill me 🤣
Why? You mist be aussie
@@mattluszczak8095he’s most likely british mate
@@abdinboni2246 Yep, he'll be British - no sense of national pride.
They're not real mate, and obviously these competitions are all about quantity, but definitely not quality haha.
The pick an dip works!, my numbers have doubled since I got the hang of it. Like anything it takes a bit to get the hang of it but definitely worth it. Yes more trips to the board but it doesn’t give the muck time to go off on the brick making it easier to get them down easier. Shoutout from the uk
Have u been there? How many bricks did u?
@@jarlisonsantossouza9791 1 million
This is why you don't need to go to school to be a mason. They taught me in school to always spread as far as possible
Doubled? IFf you can do double using pick n dip then you must be bad.
@@jims5394 well doubled might be a slight exaggeration but theres a significant difference, my bank says so. The quality is still there the customers haven’t stopped coming in 🤷 the works flat as glass and the pointing is better than most. No bullshit, if you’re a good trowel and can get the hang of this you can make moneys
Charlie u wud wipe the floor with them yanks 💪💪💪💪 go show em m8
My tennis elbow hurts watching this.
Should be rated to top cleanliness aswell like residential quality! Tough, but challenging!🇨🇦🇨🇦
Agreed. How to rate the mess? Barrysaid
Wall should be plumb and cleaned and tuck pointed as well. Barrysaid
@@barrykane2463 I agree
@@barrykane2463 I'm a resto guy by trade. I have to be 100%
I noticed that too, their should be penalties for every brick you have a big smudge on.
'World's best bricklayer?'. I have two words for you. Rob Songer.
For speed I reckon the UK's Charlie Collison could be up there in the contenders for speed and still be tidier than this mess.
Comedian
Dude Charlie is great bricklayer but there are so many unknown guys who just work and have to get that count in to get a pay check you don't even know I know 60 year old guys who can lay on leads or to the line and get 2000 brick grapevine brick now I'm not talking handmade brick that are rough I'm talking wire cut uniform brick that you see everything
I’ll have to pop over and show you lot how it’s done 🧱
Get in there
The quality of the brick works in the contest wouldn't be signed off in footings in uk
Teach them a thing or two you will do son
Do it Charlie, these guys are shite
Make the video please
These walls are just a mess. Anyone could throw bricks down like that. Alot of the bricks are tipping, lipping, rolling 😂😂😂 shocking. If you think you could get away with this in the real world please don't ever touch a trowel.
I could lay 3000 bricks in a hour if that is the standard
this is more fun than watching paint dry!
buen concurso 👍
More compo on faces than in the perps.
😂😂
Straight Nick,I'm skipping forward to to rendering,
Not a true reflection of bricklaying to a good standard you could not produce that standars on a daily basis you would get thrrown of site
Thank you for your feedback. We take this competition very seriously, and our goal was to create something exciting which showcases speed and skills in a digestible time frame. We deduct from the total number of brick laid with every quality infraction, keeping best practices in mind. Our mission is to promote the industry, and to get a new generation of craftsmen excited about this craft. It was never intended to be perfect. However, for the mason who lays the "most-sellable" wall, we award our TOP CRAFTSMAN prize, which is just as coveted as the prize which goes to the mason with the most brick after deductions.
It's a compilation bro lol
Translator seems to be a publicist lol 😂- congrats !!!!
I hate how they record these. Can’t they just focus on a mason for more than ten seconds
Thank you for this valuable input. We have had internal discussions about this very topic. We hope to improve our production standards to your liking during our next broadcast.
@@specmixbricklayer5008 excellent, I will be in attendance this year in Vegas
These are amateurs on a gameshow right?
Some of that brickwork is very scuffed up!
What a mess and i shit you not guys ive never seen anyone faster than my dad / the sweeney / joe mc larnon belfast in ireland . Im a very fast bricky can lay 1600 clean facing brick in a day but my dad layed way more i watched him wen i was an apprentice lay a gable of 830 brick in 1 hour 10mins good clean brickwork too 💪💪💪💚
Dumb question: What happens to the masonry after the contest?
I understand a contest as the best in whatever, under construction, speed, cleanliness, the good finish of the work, but in this contest there is nothing more than speed, the work should be finished and delivered Like a day at work in any company, that contest is crap
43:14 did the camera man knock that brick
I see this quality on every d.r. horton house daily
This is bad for the trade. Just look at all the mortar on the face of the bricks.
Why not lay brick around a window and a door.,.,.maybe an arch.,.??.,.,I like this competition. really like to see the mason's cut bricks with a the trawl hammer .,maybe tenders can actually mix. a a bunch of batches .,.,show off some skill.,.,.,Tkzz for sharing.,.,.,peace
How do we get this competition asking
From New Zealand
None of these guys impress me. Robert Boll dont have to worry, the world record won't get broken here.
Will take them a full day to clean all the spawl off the face of their wall's, perp's clipping I never learned that technique during my four year UK City & Guild's apprenticeship?
@Red viking How to lay brickwork plumb, level and clean, you know "DH"; up to a basic minimum standard..
I think the term there looking for is barbell jointer lol
I wish to race with those guys,but l dunno if Europeans would be allow to it,does anybody knows about that?
Need to get my dad in there
State of that Brickwork.....
How do you enter this from Australia?
We will have an international entry section on our website in the next few weeks. We would reach out to you from there.
@@specmixbricklayer5008 I’ll definitely keep checking, I’ve always wanted to compete in this
U will need long arms
Ayyy I saw my uncle
Is this the world or just the USA?
In the US it means the World Series, like baseball 😅
I remember my first day..
Whats the Criteria for throwing in 700 brick in an Hour
The works is disgusting no point to the contest at all should have to be trade standard or it’s pointless ffs
Texas in the house jajaaj
Might be quick but there rough as fuck
Need to get some British brickies in there to show them how to do a proper job !
I am not so interested in how fast a mason works as much as how good a job he does. After wall that is what I am paying him for. They should deconstruct afterwards to see how well the joints are filled. Most of these masons are doing clipped head joints.
I really wish more time was given to introducing the Masons, and the prizes! Really just want this Companionship to keep Growing and continue to Thrive!
(Future Contestant, out of Waco TX Reping Brazos Masonry, 17 years old)
Thank you for the input! We try to adjust how we cover this every year, and will certainly take this valuable input into account! Thanks for watching and helping us spread the word!
@@specmixbricklayer5008 Europeans can apply for this competition?
I’ve worked in America very fast pace but dog rough
Fast but rough as f… don’t even see mess like that in the footing here. Not one of them walks coukd be on a house or garden wall shocking. And to say a 1/4 inch out of plumb tolerance on 4 foot of wall is mental
All that brick work is awful, wouldn’t last a day on my firm.
"Best" need not be the fastest. I don't see any rebar masonry, needed in earthquake zones and other natural disaster areas. I didn't see any different patterns, either. There's room for improvement, shorter videos (which I hope would get more views, and raise the status of masons, it is a great skill to have!) (P.S. a hobby of mine is walking around construction areas and discovering what / how they're building things.)
Non stop chatter and commercials....unwatchable. those walls look like a mess.
They do need to ban tipping the joints on these competitions
Sloppy bricklayers period
THE WORLD? its an american competition ? O yeah they dont recognise other countries
Worlds best no other countries compete unless you class Mexico as part of the world
Rendered
Absolutely shocking workmanship...throwing down a straight wall is not a test of how good a mason is.Sorry Merica...but your building standards are very poor.
Just a load of mess with bricks and mortar !
I’m just some random jackass watching this cuz it was in my recommendations and I’m looking through the comment at these people who are very invested in this and are talking about it like it’s a football game. I feel very out of place.
Stevie wonder could do a better job 😂🤣
After 37 years of bricklaying I’m staggered at the lack of skill on show,looks like burglar bond to me.Wouldn’t need a ladder to climb up the wall and break in and as for the finish it’s the Westminster smudge 😂😂😂😂
It's an absolute joke , what a fucking mess , an embarrassing show for our trade , get some quality in here FFS.
I agee
Man the head joints are not very good fast isn't every thing fast and done correctly means alot
That’s some of the roughest bricklaying I’ve seen. Got more mortar on the face of brick than anywhere else. Seems speed matters over quality. Poor
How can a world championship only include Americans ?
Just give us anotherLes Dawson sketch ,ffs.
18inch sled runner only way. Or 14 lol
Mugs game
I would fire the guy!! he is in such a hurry that his method is not getting full head joints!! gonna spend alot of time filling those. If I were the judge I would insist on full head joints, not impressed
No muck in perps .. useless
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Это несерьезно, назвать это лицевой кладкой нельзя, это типичная бутовая кладка требующая дальнейшей отделки, либо оштукатуривание, либо облицовку сайдингом или другие варианты. В России за такую работу не заплатят, это я вам точно говорю, а какой смысл делать быстро если нет качества.
Calor asta la madre
Shud be penalties for mud all over the bloody bricks. .won't get away with that on site chaps. Crap messy brickwork !!!!! Shit !
lol they are not bricklayers
These guys with their silly caps on with no ear and neck protection, cancer’s going to get you later on. Be sun smart. At least make a good example for the kids.
Not the world's best shit some of them slow we Lay faster on site no shit smuging on face work joke be pulled down in UK got to laugh like 5 year old kids done it
Spec mess
Не профи
Trust the yanks to be able to build awall and render it one go.!!!!!!
And he can't even speak english
All you guys putting down what the brick look like, are I guess including the top craftsmen. You guys are so jealous of the fact that you can't keep up that all you can do is criticize, which is typical of loser's. Top craftsmen has to lay at least 500 brick, and you think they should be installed as if you were giving 3 minutes to lay each brick.
Your just a bunch of losing wannabe's, who couldn't hold theses guys trowels. You guys are so jealous of the fact that you can't keep up that all you can do is criticize, which is typical of loser's. This is primarily a competition about speed, not how perfect (or slow) you can lay every brick. Being from South Florida, and comparing this brick work with some of the garbage I've observed on commercial and residential buildings done by you "expert" brick layers while visiting "The North country", I'd say what they've done here surpasses a lot of it, and most likely at 10 times the speed.
Haha 🤡🤡
Some of these comments 😅 quality over quantity unless theirs a 100k truck involved.
Look at quality it's terrible
@charlie collinson uk needs to be on here
he"d be a lot neater too
He wouldn’t get anywhere near lol
@@rikkigann2618 he would the bloke can get them down
Charlie u gotta do this mate.. I think you’d win!
Charlie collision could not carry my bricks ..hopeless.forgotten more than he knows
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