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Monday, July 23, 2012

Watch this mesmerizing masonry video and then tell me you do not wish you could do that.

[HT: Althouse]

At 12:04 PM, LA Grant said...: Always fun to watch an expert. In that 5-minute video I would guess he put down 12-15 blocks or about 60 per hour. After 600,000 repetitions (10,000 hours), I could do that. And it would take me about that long to capture all the little details in his movements--like the buttering technique along the tops, the efficient reuse of squeezed out mortar, careful alignment with the string line, etc.
At 5:34 PM, Bob said...: Yes it looks so easy...Anybody could do it, how hard could it be? He's only a brick layer.

Brick by brick the wall is built, just like magic it's there.

At some point somebody has to do the hard work.....

Bob :)
At 9:25 PM, Rick Knowles said...: The last time I laid out some CMU, it was nothing like that. Practice made this guy an artist with technique!

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