It's possible to do it for an hour with everything set up right but to continuously keep it up you'd need a wall a mile long . Plus he didn't say he can lay 500 every hour everyday.
...and 40 minutes loading, half an hour jointing, hour on your brews and setting up your camera, owt between half an hour to 6 weeks waiting for the fork lift, 40 minutes walking about for mortar, hour setting up your corners...etc etc.
Even on a straight retainer wall you would be hard pushed to lay any where near 4k bricks a day let alone site work with corners and window and door openings ? 8 hr shift averaging 8-9 bricks a minute impossible?
Most brickies could lay 4 to 500 brick in an hour if the corners were already up and they could plough them in to the line on a strait run with no window or door openings and they had a good labourer keeping them on brick and gobo but what they don't account for and show in the videos is the setting out and actually putting the corners up! When someone does a video showing they can lay 500 brick an hour starting fresh from slab level putting up corners and measuring and setting out the window/door openings etc then I'll believe and gladly give credit we're credit is due!
Decent brickwork! If I lay like that my boss will be upset at me as one side of the brick is higher than the line. After the bricks are clean you will see it
Nice work. And don't get me wrong, I'm not 'having a go', but there is a problem. Everyone and their dog is producing videos like this and no one is disputing that you laid 510 bricks in an hour. The problem is perception, by that I mean how the uninitiated (and some that should know better) view said content. They see videos like this and believe the hype. You said you average 500 per hour which means 4000 bricks a day. Oh, and that is every single day because you used the word 'average'. Now you and me know it's not possible, but they don't. And oh boy will they let you know, often, and at length. I've been on the trowel for 37 years and I'd be fully retired by now if I had a quid for every time some wally tells me I should be pissing a thousand bricks a day down or I'm not a proper bricklayer. Bollocks to the fact that their little extension is around the back of some terrace and their are a hundred other considerations in between the job and a good end product. Try pricing work when the client thinks you can lay thousands of bricks a day... Okay, moan over, as you were lol! ;-)
At that slow lazy pace I guarantee you ain't even close to laying 500 an hour. .. You LIE, Boy!!😅.... I was gonna say, yeah, it ain't hard to lay a couple thousand on a double wyth garden wall, but hell you ain't even doing that. .. Stop LYING, Boy!!
i worked for a joiner once with a little building business, he thought one bloke alone single handed should do what would take a full squad a couple of weeks to do in a couple of days, never again
Mason and contractor for 45 years. I call BS. First of all it's quicker to lay brick going forward then backwards. Production of a 1,000 quality brick per day is a good day.
Not a bad bricklayer. I have been a bricklayer for 35 years.. I've never laid 500 brick an hour on my best day with someone spreading and handing me brick..lol
My dad was a bricklayer. I worked for him in summers till I was done school and went on to other things. Those years taught me all about hard work. If I laid 500 bricks in A DAY that was a lot.
It's not how many bricks you can lay in a day but how many you lay in the week nobody get a load in on pillars and short panels. This guy is no faster or slower than any guy on a site.ive seen a tortoise beat a hare for wages every week.
Why aren't you buttering your head joint? Never in my life seen anybody lay brick like that. I guess you like tuckpointing before you strike. Full head joints make for a good leak proof wall.
Oh look, another waist high wall video making you think the guy has done it that easy from ankle high. Well he hasn't. And it won't be easy above waist either.
Never mind the sides when he’s got to do windows and doors and that, and wall ties every 6 courses. Why do people always make out that it’s just all running in to the line all the time?
You people are insane i'm not even a fully qualified bricky and even i know this is the most clickbait bullshit ever seen... the amount of bricks laid in this video isn't even 500 an hour if he persisted at this speed for the entire time. The way he is laying the bricks is the fastest to get the bricks down and the longest to check. I approximate 130 bricks an hour being generous in current situation with the bricks actually completed and the 'current situation' is the best possible circumstance to lay bricks so on a typical id say you average at about 70-80 an hour which is 15% of your clickbait bullshit and you know it too, you stated in another comment your best day ever is 1650... presuming you are at it for 7.5 hours a day after breaks thats 220 an hour again not even 50% of your claimed daily average????
@@user-kh9nd9iv2t 40 yr commercial mason, I don't work on houses. There's a competition in the US called the Bricklayer 500, I know what kind of pace it takes to lay 500 brick an hour, and at it you won't last 2 hours. The man in the video is not moving anywhere close to that pace.
@@jamietwigg5152 no he 100% isn't laying 500 an hour, but depending on setting up lines and profiles and what he's running in, he could get to 1000 a day on site especially whilst using pick and dip.
14 bricks in 1 minute without the bed been put out( i timed it its not hard ) very possible i believe you. Some people just don't know what the fuck there going on about. Good work mate. Oh 14 bricks a minute × 60 is 840 an hour take some off for the bed and you ate not far off 😉
If you think that’s good . The future is fbr robotics Hadrian x ( 500 bricks an hour , and each block is 10 times a standard brick … don’t think that’s true( TH-cam fbr !! Well done the Aussies
He bedded out and then laid 9 bricks in 1m 20s. That works out to 450 bricks in 1 hour. Why are you all doubting? Also a builder said a house is x bricks so you would do it in a day n half, never seen it done! ....... There's a LOT more to building a house than straight line laying. He could lay 500 per hour easily and so could other quick brickies. The trouble is that this isn't taking into consideration the time it takes to setup profiles, build up corners and the other things you need to do before you get to the point where you can lay straight runs. Otherwise these fast brickies would make an absolute fortune, more so than they do. Taken into reality, this brickie would be lucky to get 3k bricks down in a day the same as other brickies that can be bothered to work efficiently and fast.
4000 bricks a day Is NOT realistic!!! If you're on a really long wall with the basic anchors 1000-1500 is reasonable. Also you have to tool or strike the bed and head joints and brush. People say all kinds of things but they can't BS an brick/ Block/ Stone mason for over 20 years. To lay like a madman watch Worlds Fastest Trowel Competition. Those guys will show you fast, efficiency. The guy in this video is pretty slow compared to the slowest in these competitions. It's a good video but I'm just keeping it REAL!!
Look in the background. I’ve never seen gigantic brick leads like that! We usually build about 6 course leads to start a corner to hold a speed lead (made of square tubing). It takes about 5 minutes to setup each speed lead and then we stretch everyone out & start laying brick. Those 8’+ hand built leads are inefficient & a waste of time. The guys building those are laying even 500 brick a DAY. Everyone here is correct thats says theres more to laying brick than starting a video basically at the end of the process rather than at the beginning!
Yea ive spent my life in masonry and never seen anyone lay 500 bricks an hour lol ive seen some real crazy shit too, but mostly ive just seen liars, this is one of em.
17 bricks in 2 min? do the maths. Moving fast is not the same as actually going fast. He makes few movements and doesn't make mistakes, says a guy who works on an assembly line.
This speed on video is bellow 500 bricks A DAY on average I've been around many sites for grinding and the big mouth guys smashing (they did just on straight walls ever 3rd or 4th day) about 800+, all the pointing etc. done by labourers Funny thing, nearly all guys like that usually ended up being kicked from the site and being not paid for the last house, sometimes even went to being sued, as part of their shit work had to be teared down and redone by someone else
Back in the day windows were laid below grade as an egress " a way out" from the basement. I've had to put a ladder built into the brick, backed by block. Of course these are only on high ground and always had a drain to get rid of any water that might get into the hole.
I agree with handycrowd, all this hype about 4000 bricks a day is nonsense. When surveyors/site managers/project managers see this hyped up bs they think bricklayers are earning far more than they actually are. They price with reluctance
He's going way too slow to lay 500 an hour. Spreads mud too slow also for a 500 count also. If he spreads mud any slower, birds would be nesting in his hat! Tell them there lies to somebody that doesn't know any better, sonny boy!
2 min video 17 bricks (8.5 bricks in one min) 7hours work (1hour break time) it’s mean 420 minutes 420x8.5=3570 briks a day Well done mate u fast 👏🏽 (I can lay thousand or max 1.2 no more)
So a house with 6,000 bricks would take a day and a half spent 54 years at it and never seen it done.
Exactly
It's possible to do it for an hour with everything set up right but to continuously keep it up you'd need a wall a mile long .
Plus he didn't say he can lay 500 every hour everyday.
...and 40 minutes loading, half an hour jointing, hour on your brews and setting up your camera, owt between half an hour to 6 weeks waiting for the fork lift, 40 minutes walking about for mortar, hour setting up your corners...etc etc.
What about actually buttering the end of the brick properly ?
He seems to be using the excess on the line to mush it onto the side. Not as effective, but more efficient ig
@@ChexNyx it's gonna be a problem when he comes to jointing it, especially if it's raked and flat joined then he's gonna suffer
@@michealrosen ahhh fair
the 2 first brick is good......the 3 after are tiping....the next 2 are over the line......i had to stop watching after that
At least the last brick received a full head joint.
average 500 an hr!😂 so one brickie laying up to 4000 bricks a day.. dreamer!
But there is no walls like that
Not very common
Even on a straight retainer wall you would be hard pushed to lay any where near 4k bricks a day let alone site work with corners and window and door openings ? 8 hr shift averaging 8-9 bricks a minute impossible?
I think someone’s talking shit 🤣🤣
@@DJDave1962 my record 1200 brick a day :( I did everything myself , brick ,compo
Most brickies could lay 4 to 500 brick in an hour if the corners were already up and they could plough them in to the line on a strait run with no window or door openings and they had a good labourer keeping them on brick and gobo but what they don't account for and show in the videos is the setting out and actually putting the corners up!
When someone does a video showing they can lay 500 brick an hour starting fresh from slab level putting up corners and measuring and setting out the window/door openings etc then I'll believe and gladly give credit we're credit is due!
I've been doing it a long time and you would have to go a little bit quicker than he is to lay 500 an hour
Well about nine a minute speed in video makes it seem possible 😆
He layed 16 bricks in 2 mins which is 480 bricks an hour. But no one is keeping that up all day. Jumping around setting up else where so on.
pick and dip i hate it lazy man's brickwork 🙏
Decent brickwork! If I lay like that my boss will be upset at me as one side of the brick is higher than the line.
After the bricks are clean you will see it
i agree , what he has laid there is awful , up and down , speedboating , hatching , that will look awful when pointed up,
Nice work. And don't get me wrong, I'm not 'having a go', but there is a problem.
Everyone and their dog is producing videos like this and no one is disputing that you laid 510 bricks in an hour. The problem is perception, by that I mean how the uninitiated (and some that should know better) view said content.
They see videos like this and believe the hype. You said you average 500 per hour which means 4000 bricks a day. Oh, and that is every single day because you used the word 'average'.
Now you and me know it's not possible, but they don't. And oh boy will they let you know, often, and at length.
I've been on the trowel for 37 years and I'd be fully retired by now if I had a quid for every time some wally tells me I should be pissing a thousand bricks a day down or I'm not a proper bricklayer. Bollocks to the fact that their little extension is around the back of some terrace and their are a hundred other considerations in between the job and a good end product.
Try pricing work when the client thinks you can lay thousands of bricks a day...
Okay, moan over, as you were lol! ;-)
500bricks a hour lol . cop on to urself
click bait i mean I am good but Im not tat good lmao
handycrowd; that was flawed, irrelevant bs
I am disputing exactly that handy
Well said👍
At that slow lazy pace I guarantee you ain't even close to laying 500 an hour. .. You LIE, Boy!!😅.... I was gonna say, yeah, it ain't hard to lay a couple thousand on a double wyth garden wall, but hell you ain't even doing that. .. Stop LYING, Boy!!
Show us how it’s done then speedy 😁😁😁
i worked for a joiner once with a little building business, he thought one bloke alone single handed should do what would take a full squad a couple of weeks to do in a couple of days, never again
Mason and contractor for 45 years. I call BS. First of all it's quicker to lay brick going forward then backwards. Production of a 1,000 quality brick per day is a good day.
Why grab a brick halfway through spread. If you can call that a spread. He's just dropping mud.
Try again
No flashing, vents, weeps, insulation, anchors, rough terrain, electrical boxes, plumbing fixtures, saw cuts, fancy designs etc.
Ill out lay these boys.
Not a bad bricklayer. I have been a bricklayer for 35 years.. I've never laid 500 brick an hour on my best day with someone spreading and handing me brick..lol
My dad was a bricklayer. I worked for him in summers till I was done school and went on to other things. Those years taught me all about hard work. If I laid 500 bricks in A DAY that was a lot.
It's not how many bricks you can lay in a day but how many you lay in the week nobody get a load in on pillars and short panels. This guy is no faster or slower than any guy on a site.ive seen a tortoise beat a hare for wages every week.
500 bricks an hour! Who’s laying them? The Flash! 😂
Why aren't you buttering your head joint? Never in my life seen anybody lay brick like that. I guess you like tuckpointing before you strike. Full head joints make for a good leak proof wall.
It’s called pick and dip it’s a German way of laying, the next bed helps to create a full joint also
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 No compression like bed joint so variable erosion & sounds like you are hoping your perps are filled.
That ain’t pick and dip mate
He could butter the end with the excess on the trowel but he throws it back on the board.
Oh look, another waist high wall video making you think the guy has done it that easy from ankle high. Well he hasn't. And it won't be easy above waist either.
Never mind the sides when he’s got to do windows and doors and that, and wall ties every 6 courses. Why do people always make out that it’s just all running in to the line all the time?
Lookin at some of the unfilled grout areas like "how long he spend spoonin in that mortar.. thats on the clock"
Be real with yourself no one lays 500 bricks a hour, maybe you meant 500 for the day
Not hitting the sides of the brick is leaving behind cracks and spaces.
Do discussion about jointing either.
500 a hr?? Careful you don't scrape your big bollocks on your wall.
How about striking, building leads, cutting, laying or cutting mesh or anchors...?
Yeah those are never took into consideration
also jointing,maybe raking, brushing, cleaning
Or filling the joints right or laying them level even 😂
My arse must of woke up with his face stuck to the pillow 😂😂😮
Fast work is seldom good or neat!
You people are insane i'm not even a fully qualified bricky and even i know this is the most clickbait bullshit ever seen... the amount of bricks laid in this video isn't even 500 an hour if he persisted at this speed for the entire time. The way he is laying the bricks is the fastest to get the bricks down and the longest to check. I approximate 130 bricks an hour being generous in current situation with the bricks actually completed and the 'current situation' is the best possible circumstance to lay bricks so on a typical id say you average at about 70-80 an hour which is 15% of your clickbait bullshit and you know it too, you stated in another comment your best day ever is 1650... presuming you are at it for 7.5 hours a day after breaks thats 220 an hour again not even 50% of your claimed daily average????
So I guess laying backwards is fast? This dude isn't even remotely fast
you aint laying 400 a day at that speed mate and no cross joint chancer 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Why do people lie, simply do the maths, that's a brick every 7seconds including spreading the mortar, you missed out the spreading
My man says no you paying by the job flawless with it other ones it's a lot harder than it looks 🙌
A brick every 7 seconds. Including mixing and applying your mortar. Yeah right.
LOL not even 50 at his pace. Bricklayer on my 50th Year in the Trade.
At the pace hes going in the clip lucky if he lays 5 😂
I enjoyed the video but tell matey to put his hard hat on it’s on the floor right in front of him 😂😂😂
😂😂 that speed 5 brick a hour
500 a day is about right clean and plumb
You finished / tooled them with what a street broom?
In 5 years time every perp will have a hole at the top.... They wouldn't let you on any sites i have worked on !
Pretty rough work. Also when a bricky says laid 500 brick an hour also means jointing them. Don't believe it.
He will never get 500 brick/hr at this rate…dream on😂
A lot of braggarts in the bricklaying trade.he couldn’t keep that pace up for a week.
His mouth is writing cheques his arse is never gonna cash there!
500 bricks an hour lol, as slow as youre moving you'd be lucky to lay 500 in 8 hours
Spoken like a true painter and decorator.
@@user-kh9nd9iv2t 40 yr commercial mason, I don't work on houses.
There's a competition in the US called the Bricklayer 500, I know what kind of pace it takes to lay 500 brick an hour, and at it you won't last 2 hours.
The man in the video is not moving anywhere close to that pace.
@@jamietwigg5152 no he 100% isn't laying 500 an hour, but depending on setting up lines and profiles and what he's running in, he could get to 1000 a day on site especially whilst using pick and dip.
@@user-kh9nd9iv2t BS, he'd be lucky to do 500 all day, to many movements
@@jamietwigg5152 if that's what you think mr. “40 years”.
Wtf hes not buttering them 😂😂😂😂
14 bricks in 1 minute without the bed been put out( i timed it its not hard ) very possible i believe you. Some people just don't know what the fuck there going on about.
Good work mate. Oh 14 bricks a minute × 60 is 840 an hour take some off for the bed and you ate not far off
😉
Man is literally speedrunning bricklaying House%.
Laying bricks like in denmark. Mortar for one brick at a time.
LFG!!👍💪💪👌
I can tell you this slowass isn't 500 brick per hour, company's bid jobs that bricklayer will do 800 per day, that's if its not all level work
That was basically my father laying 18 bricks to my 5 bricks
If you think that’s good . The future is fbr robotics Hadrian x ( 500 bricks an hour , and each block is 10 times a standard brick … don’t think that’s true( TH-cam fbr !! Well done the Aussies
He bedded out and then laid 9 bricks in 1m 20s. That works out to 450 bricks in 1 hour. Why are you all doubting? Also a builder said a house is x bricks so you would do it in a day n half, never seen it done! ....... There's a LOT more to building a house than straight line laying. He could lay 500 per hour easily and so could other quick brickies. The trouble is that this isn't taking into consideration the time it takes to setup profiles, build up corners and the other things you need to do before you get to the point where you can lay straight runs. Otherwise these fast brickies would make an absolute fortune, more so than they do. Taken into reality, this brickie would be lucky to get 3k bricks down in a day the same as other brickies that can be bothered to work efficiently and fast.
Mate doesn’t even do he’s job properly 😊
As an old mason i call this. Bull Shit..
Lucky this is on TH-cam and not TikTok. All the people saying you must make £700k a year. 🤣🤣 Class Work mate
Hahah I’ve give up on tiktok mate it’s so annoying 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@kurtmalpassbrickwork6255 I bet, pay is shite compared to TH-cam. Soon you’ll be passing the collisions channel 👍😊
You guys slammin and jammin that’s a lot of brick by any standard. Nice job. Good looking work!!!
All bullshit
That's average speed. And it's not great.
That's actually pretty lazy and sloppy work by my standards
@@JLKDOOM By any bricklaying standard.
@@fritzdrybeam you and I would fire his ass if he didn't pick up his slack 😂
This pace you’ll be lucky to do 500 a day
Do the math he would have actually laid just over 500 brick at that “pace” pal.
So you left them un-tooled? 😆
😂😂😂😂 go back to bed mate!!! 500p/h?
No waaayyy! Even on a solid wall such as a gym, a really good bricklayer may lay 1000 per day.
4000 bricks a day Is NOT realistic!!!
If you're on a really long wall with the basic anchors 1000-1500 is reasonable. Also you have to tool or strike the bed and head joints and brush. People say all kinds of things but they can't BS an brick/ Block/ Stone mason for over 20 years. To lay like a madman watch Worlds Fastest Trowel Competition. Those guys will show you fast, efficiency. The guy in this video is pretty slow compared to the slowest in these competitions. It's a good video but I'm just keeping it REAL!!
500 brick per hour??? You need to speed up the video then!😂
What a load of shit ,been on the trowel since I was 16 / 54 now and still on it , you would not do that on the old 9 inch walls
Don’t get jealous mate
Look in the background. I’ve never seen gigantic brick leads like that! We usually build about 6 course leads to start a corner to hold a speed lead (made of square tubing). It takes about 5 minutes to setup each speed lead and then we stretch everyone out & start laying brick. Those 8’+ hand built leads are inefficient & a waste of time. The guys building those are laying even 500 brick a DAY. Everyone here is correct thats says theres more to laying brick than starting a video basically at the end of the process rather than at the beginning!
That ain’t 500 a day 😂 thought I was gonna learn something
I call BS , unsustainable.
I've been laying bricks 30 years and this is nonsense.
Yea ive spent my life in masonry and never seen anyone lay 500 bricks an hour lol ive seen some real crazy shit too, but mostly ive just seen liars, this is one of em.
This is a joke. No way he is gonna lay 4000 brick in 8 hrs. He might lay 2500 if he stacks them down dry lol
Be honest with yourself … this is click bate material
500 an hour? Superman couldn't lay that many bricks.
Try laying to the line when you running in! Its the easiest part of the job! Your fired if you cant do that!
Bullshit, my 8 hour best 510, that’s working for myself
Yeah, right, dream on
I’ve absolutely no idea why I watched this vid cos I knew for sure it would be BS , never in a million years pal, unless your on fantasy island 😂😂😂😂
Where are the women wanting equality? 😅
Maybe but how make if somebody put level above brik like skils exam 😂
At that speed you're lucky to lay 500 a day.
17 bricks in 2 min? do the maths. Moving fast is not the same as actually going fast. He makes few movements and doesn't make mistakes, says a guy who works on an assembly line.
I watched him for 10 seconds and this guy is doing like 850 a day.
This speed on video is bellow 500 bricks A DAY on average
I've been around many sites for grinding and the big mouth guys smashing (they did just on straight walls ever 3rd or 4th day) about 800+, all the pointing etc. done by labourers
Funny thing, nearly all guys like that usually ended up being kicked from the site and being not paid for the last house, sometimes even went to being sued, as part of their shit work had to be teared down and redone by someone else
At the speed he’s going! Not a chance!
Do the maths he layed 16 bricks in 2 mins which is 480 an hour 😂. Although I doubt he can keep that up all day.
8 bricks a second lol. Only way you could lay 8.bricks per second is if you played this video in time laps
You made that look so easy and fast amazing. I do have one question, do masons ever make full size windows below ground level, and if so why?
Back in the day windows were laid below grade as an egress " a way out" from the basement. I've had to put a ladder built into the brick, backed by block. Of course these are only on high ground and always had a drain to get rid of any water that might get into the hole.
I think it works out to be one brick every 7 plus seconds , unlike a bricky to stretch thing's
I agree with handycrowd, all this hype about 4000 bricks a day is nonsense. When surveyors/site managers/project managers see this hyped up bs they think bricklayers are earning far more than they actually are. They price with reluctance
Boot. No way he's laying 500 an hour. Maybe in 8 hrs.
All these videos make bricklayers look stupid giving your trade secrets away so easy just laying to a line I suppose you get loads of views amazing
So your laying 8 bricks a minute 😂😂😂 all these ppl go on about 1000 a day I have never seen more than 400
i can piss quicker than you can lay.......and i dont piss very quick nowadays..... bull with the 500 an hour🤪
What terrible banter you have sir , can tell your a day worker with that insult 🤣
2 days to lay 12,500 bricks, how much for the bricks and motor, without wages?
Is that a Sunday lunch 3rd course down from top?
He's going way too slow to lay 500 an hour. Spreads mud too slow also for a 500 count also.
If he spreads mud any slower, birds would be nesting in his hat! Tell them there lies to somebody that doesn't know any better, sonny boy!
Nice steady action that, but cmon fella no way including jointing up is it possible to do 599 an hour every hour
Labourer joints up shag 😛
Cant be done. And quit slapping your trowel on your board.😂
At that speed ?
No way 500 in hour 😂😂
You defly get paid by the hour the way your body moves
Awful, left hand side higher than the line every time without fail. Just awful.
2 min video 17 bricks (8.5 bricks in one min)
7hours work (1hour break time) it’s mean 420 minutes 420x8.5=3570 briks a day
Well done mate u fast 👏🏽 (I can lay thousand or max 1.2 no more)
I wish I could do 3570 🤣🤣 my personal best is 1650 mate ,
Bruh you must be on day rate moving like that, fkn could have watched a plant grow quicker than you spread that bed man god dayummm get some red bull