@@davidolson5919 yea i was taught to hold that trowel in one hand and lay the block, its not that hard to do. another thing i saw slap the trowel down on the mud board to make the mud set to the trowel, meh just a quick shake of the wrist what i always did. but i spread 1.5 to two blocks wide per trowel keep my back to the board down as much as possible.
Don't forget the radius line for the curve walls, and the block stretcher for when your joints are a little to big, oh yea! Almost forgot the sky hook, that always comes in handy.
Good work brother. I know what it is to have to lay 400 of these in the son then go do shoulders and tris later that day. Rough stuff. Did it 15 years full time but now i only do 16 to 24 hours a week. Still good money when its rate work in Massachusetts
I love this work, i admire it greatly...however... the co-worker needs to learn a lil consideration. If ya knock over the camera, fella, set it back up. Our guy didnt want to be filming the ceiling. Ya know what, dont bother, dont touch the camera, ya might break it.
I’ve always known that a blacksmith keeps a steady tune with his hammer and as I watch these guys tap tap tap I think they are just making noise. Tap tap tap
In the trade of masonry in the United States every 20 to 30 feet has to have a vertical control joint. The reason for this is because walls will crack somewhere between 20 and 30 feet undoubtedly. So in order to control where it does cracking begin to separate from shrinkage or ground movement sometimes we don't tie in joints as you see in this video
Good question. In this video I am connecting two walls that are both already level and plumbed. So I pulled a line between the two. Maybe you cannot see the line.
Only thing I'd critique is the bad habits you're developing of pausing right before you spread the wall instead of it being a fluid motion from the board to the block with no hesitation. You're second guessing your mortar being set on the trowel before tipping your trowel and executing the spread. Trust me, as many times as you're slapping the board, which is probably splattering your block stack and anyone on the wall with you that may be standing near you, and if your mortar is tempered properly, one smack will do the trick and eliminating just those two bad habits now instead of carrying them with you throughout your career will double your productivity by making you faster and more confident with your trowel which will lead to amazing things you've never imagined you could do with your trowel. Like as in myself for example, I've mastered my trowel in both hands and can toss my trowel from one hand to the other in mid stride without a thought of weather the other hand is going to catch it or not and I am proficient at buttering block and brick as well as spreading the wall forward and backwards with both my predominant hand and my block setting hand in those situations that warrant such activity. And that's not to even mention all the other tricks with a trowel that are extremely useful on the job every day once you've practiced doing them properly and adding your own uniqueness to them till you've mastered them and have incorporated the tricks to become second nature in your laying. Most layers take for granted the marriage to their main tool of the trade and never realize or explore it's potential. And you should try every trowel they make as it's suited to your type of work and not just use what everyone else uses because that's what they use and recommend, because if you've not explored the alternate trowels out there how will you know you're using the right one for your particular frame and articulation? I have my favorites that I use for specific applications, but they're my favorites because I've spent like 28 years trying out new trowels after I've worn one down to what I consider an unusable size. It's like when I was happy with and convinced I'd never use anything other than my spoon jointer until it broke and I tried the barrel jointer and got past the learning curve of switching tools and got to know it till it became my permanent choice for tooling joints because of how much I grew to like it better. And also your head buttering technique needs some refining until you can have a block already in your hand when you come away from setting your trowel with mud and in one motion, with enough mud on your trowel for both sides of the block end you've just layed and are about to set the block in your hand against, with fast and purposeful intent, with two slices of the trowel at the proper angle you should be able to split you're trowels mud in half between the sides and set your block and repeat all day without the typical bad habit of going to the block and massaging mud on either side of the end of the block with your trowel with like 7 or 8 swipes like you're buttering your toast in the morning and then going back for the block you want to set against the mud after all that waisted time. Like I said, some folks carry their bad habits with them their whole lives because they don't see that there's a better way with less waste and more productivity because nobody ever taught them different or they just didn't realize that the repetitive actions they've grown accustomed to utilizing are counterproductive. Good luck and hopefully my advice is useful for you.
I don't remember if I spread mortar in that vertical joint up against the side wall. But it really doesn't matter because it's a bathroom and all joints are going to get stuffed with backer rod and then get caulking
im just getting the hang of buttering the block on the wall, its tough but way faster and half the work. my biggest problem is consistency with spreading the mortar outside is good but the inside gets thin or globs up tap tap tap tap tap tap tap now its rolling out tap tap tap tap tap, to low now lol
I was asked to make a cmu block planter by my boss. It took me 5 fucking days to it. It was like 40 blocks. First time iv layed CMU by my self. I had to cut so many dam blocks because he wanted it to conform to a certain shape. It took me longer to cut the god dam blocks than to actually lay them. Anyone have tips on cutting odd shaped blocks?
If you was getting 40 dollars an hour prevailing wage are you gonna finish in one day nope I'm gonna take as long as I need to and the job look nice and correct
@@Richyv4USC every 2 lines of block if you are putting wall tiles too. Your outside wall will be more strong. This is for north states with bad weather
Quizá esta en una unión y le pagan por hora/día y no por la cantidad de blocks que pega. Claro que si fuera por cada block se muere de hambre a esa velocidad.
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Effin rock stars!!! I mean that.. all of y’all. EFFIN ROCKSTARS… God Bless
Good clean work homie. San Antonio Mason
Great job,excelent skill set...Thank you for working hard and pulling your weight in this world!
Skill set?? He sets his trowel down to grab each block. LOL!
@@davidolson5919 yea i was taught to hold that trowel in one hand and lay the block, its not that hard to do. another thing i saw slap the trowel down on the mud board to make the mud set to the trowel, meh just a quick shake of the wrist what i always did. but i spread 1.5 to two blocks wide per trowel keep my back to the board down as much as possible.
Fkn smooth baby...........blocks are floating in.
I've never seen such a tiny bricklayer at 8 inches
A skill and an Art.
Fabulous
The guns tell the story...Nice work.
I'm skinny as hell and I whip blocks in like no buddies business. I
Takes a lot of patience
Looks like your joints are the same size ...so does your joint lines line up vertically
Another big help for the rookie mason is by using mortar joint spacers or a Masons Fork.
Don't forget the radius line for the curve walls, and the block stretcher for when your joints are a little to big, oh yea! Almost forgot the sky hook, that always comes in handy.
nice blocks and nice job
Great job
Here in nashville truss wire has been replaced in commercial masonry. Just ladder past 15 years or so
Oldtimer about knocked your phone down the cell of the wall lol.
The lead slow af....🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A real big help for the rookie mason is by using mortar spacers or a Masons Fork tool.
Good work brother. I know what it is to have to lay 400 of these in the son then go do shoulders and tris later that day. Rough stuff. Did it 15 years full time but now i only do 16 to 24 hours a week. Still good money when its rate work in Massachusetts
Comment demographic: bricklayers by day, bricklaying videos watchers by night.
Almost true, except for the tact that these aren't brick. That's are the little red rectangles.
Nice work #5 Cleve
Are these blocks filled later on with concrete ?
Yes. Every 4 feet there is regarding drilled into the floor. More rebar added with concrete.
First video I have seen a double union,buttering block in the wall and cutting excess butter off the block. GREAT JOB just like we do it....
How do you get away with putting your trowel down without the boss yelling at you??
I am the boss.
@@izman20 you work for Oscar Boldt?
@@kmnmalaska who's asking?
@@izman20 big time general in wisco
@@kmnmalaska a big time general in wisconsin is asking me if i work for boldt? Who are you bub?
I love this work, i admire it greatly...however... the co-worker needs to learn a lil consideration. If ya knock over the camera, fella, set it back up. Our guy didnt want to be filming the ceiling. Ya know what, dont bother, dont touch the camera, ya might break it.
I’ve always known that a blacksmith keeps a steady tune with his hammer and as I watch these guys tap tap tap I think they are just making noise. Tap tap tap
Good workmanship but are those two walls isolated at the T junction, why is there a straight joint?
In the trade of masonry in the United States every 20 to 30 feet has to have a vertical control joint. The reason for this is because walls will crack somewhere between 20 and 30 feet undoubtedly. So in order to control where it does cracking begin to separate from shrinkage or ground movement sometimes we don't tie in joints as you see in this video
@@izman20 Oh ok, thank you so much.
8 mins for half a course someone getting fired lol let me stop
Ha! Let's see...8hrs a day 60 mins an hour so day 6 courses an hour times 8 is 48 time 15 equals 720 block!
@@izman20 in sorry bud. You're not laying 720 block a day. You'd be lucky to get that in two days. You do clean work though.
@@伯SouthPaw87 i was just doing math for the guy.
@@izman20 except you left out tooling and moving to another location.
As an observer who's never laid a block in his life, how comes you don't use a level, plumb or line? Thanks.
Good question. In this video I am connecting two walls that are both already level and plumbed. So I pulled a line between the two. Maybe you cannot see the line.
Skim spreading is slow. 16 or 24" max.
Well done.
i would smoke this boot
Why set your trowel down? That habit is a bad one.
Only thing I'd critique is the bad habits you're developing of pausing right before you spread the wall instead of it being a fluid motion from the board to the block with no hesitation. You're second guessing your mortar being set on the trowel before tipping your trowel and executing the spread. Trust me, as many times as you're slapping the board, which is probably splattering your block stack and anyone on the wall with you that may be standing near you, and if your mortar is tempered properly, one smack will do the trick and eliminating just those two bad habits now instead of carrying them with you throughout your career will double your productivity by making you faster and more confident with your trowel which will lead to amazing things you've never imagined you could do with your trowel. Like as in myself for example, I've mastered my trowel in both hands and can toss my trowel from one hand to the other in mid stride without a thought of weather the other hand is going to catch it or not and I am proficient at buttering block and brick as well as spreading the wall forward and backwards with both my predominant hand and my block setting hand in those situations that warrant such activity. And that's not to even mention all the other tricks with a trowel that are extremely useful on the job every day once you've practiced doing them properly and adding your own uniqueness to them till you've mastered them and have incorporated the tricks to become second nature in your laying. Most layers take for granted the marriage to their main tool of the trade and never realize or explore it's potential. And you should try every trowel they make as it's suited to your type of work and not just use what everyone else uses because that's what they use and recommend, because if you've not explored the alternate trowels out there how will you know you're using the right one for your particular frame and articulation? I have my favorites that I use for specific applications, but they're my favorites because I've spent like 28 years trying out new trowels after I've worn one down to what I consider an unusable size. It's like when I was happy with and convinced I'd never use anything other than my spoon jointer until it broke and I tried the barrel jointer and got past the learning curve of switching tools and got to know it till it became my permanent choice for tooling joints because of how much I grew to like it better. And also your head buttering technique needs some refining until you can have a block already in your hand when you come away from setting your trowel with mud and in one motion, with enough mud on your trowel for both sides of the block end you've just layed and are about to set the block in your hand against, with fast and purposeful intent, with two slices of the trowel at the proper angle you should be able to split you're trowels mud in half between the sides and set your block and repeat all day without the typical bad habit of going to the block and massaging mud on either side of the end of the block with your trowel with like 7 or 8 swipes like you're buttering your toast in the morning and then going back for the block you want to set against the mud after all that waisted time. Like I said, some folks carry their bad habits with them their whole lives because they don't see that there's a better way with less waste and more productivity because nobody ever taught them different or they just didn't realize that the repetitive actions they've grown accustomed to utilizing are counterproductive. Good luck and hopefully my advice is useful for you.
I knew that. Mud was shitty. Carry-on
Wow, you know your stuff!
With all the knowledge you have do you have a channel, so you can teach others. Oh by the way I see you're also an author, I read your book! Lol
This boy is swolen
how come? there is no joint with the sidewall :(
I don't remember if I spread mortar in that vertical joint up against the side wall. But it really doesn't matter because it's a bathroom and all joints are going to get stuffed with backer rod and then get caulking
Pretty sure you did. How long have you been laying blocks for?
Line on the wrong side
You must be a weak tit
im just getting the hang of buttering the block on the wall, its tough but way faster and half the work. my biggest problem is consistency with spreading the mortar outside is good but the inside gets thin or globs up tap tap tap tap tap tap tap now its rolling out tap tap tap tap tap, to low now lol
Damn, he thicc
Only a rookie would have a tool belt like that
Spoken like a true boot
Do you have a extra pair of boots in your tool belt aswell
Maybe hang them off your brush that would look cool.
@@danielpistor950 my spare boots were lost up your ass.
I think your head needs to come out of yours!! Im sure you have time find it in there your probly sitting at home alot .
To much crap hanging. You look stiff in your movements.
Setting his trowel down for every block. Weak. Hopefully he was an apprentice here and learned how to be more productive.
Are you wearing a hair net?
Yes sir. They wanted me to wear a beard net as well.
@@izman20 😦?!
Rose trowel
@phục êwê Absolutely yes. In South Korea we use different shape of trowel.
Check this out. th-cam.com/video/3sBOaX8iXDk/w-d-xo.html
I was asked to make a cmu block planter by my boss. It took me 5 fucking days to it. It was like 40 blocks. First time iv layed CMU by my self. I had to cut so many dam blocks because he wanted it to conform to a certain shape. It took me longer to cut the god dam blocks than to actually lay them. Anyone have tips on cutting odd shaped blocks?
@Nik tyron My guy😂
Got to be a union job
Probably an hourly crew and not a sub.....
Don’t disrespect my local 4 brothers like that this dude is a boot
If you was getting 40 dollars an hour prevailing wage are you gonna finish in one day nope I'm gonna take as long as I need to and the job look nice and correct
Should be setting a twig at that control joint unless it's already high. Looks low to existing wall.
Nah. The wall is short and everything is exactly to height. That's how professionals do it.
That zig zag spacer is brilliant. What's it called and where do I get it?
(Truss mesh reinforcement.) Is not a spacer is for reinforcement the joints.
@@l.olivares9981 Thanks much!
Are you also the tender.. gotta get your own mescla, Need a shake up..
How often do you use the trusses?
@@Richyv4USC every 2 lines of block if you are putting wall tiles too. Your outside wall will be more strong. This is for north states with bad weather
Este compa en el estado de AZ no dura una hora en una compañía cuando ya lo corrieron en az si se pega block pero rápido..😄😄😄
Speak English. Fuck head
MrPatrickedwards You don’t “Speak” in the comment section. You type.
Second, this is TH-cam, he can type in whichever language he wants and prefers.
Quizá esta en una unión y le pagan por hora/día y no por la cantidad de blocks que pega. Claro que si fuera por cada block se muere de hambre a esa velocidad.
phục êwê you can’t speak when you type dumb fuck. There’s a difference. Did you not go to school you illiterate piece of shit!?
These days many whites in the US DO have proficiency in Spanish, so ... no big deal utilizar la lengua Español en los comentarios.
5minutes to set 6 blocks in that run! 🤦🏽♂️
Faster than that. But even so...thats 66 block an hour and 530 a day.
Wouldn't make it anywhere I've ever worked.
Doubtfull. I lay block around you and your crew.
Qtal buen jale yo tambien soy blockero saludos de tijuana me suscribió ahí canal amigo
Booooot!!!!
You should work on keeping your trowel in your hand bud.
I actually try not to do that because that's how you get carpal tunnel and whatnot. Also I'm the fastest so why would I change
Please slow down. You are going way too fast. I can barely keep up, watching you tap on the block.
You think I'm trying to go fast?
😎🧤👍
Everything about this is all wrong
Take a look at the video page gemack.nl and see how easy it is with the battery powered mortargun and mortarmixertap and see the video's
Swat