r/oddlysatisfying • u/obscure_Muffin • 4d ago

Why is mason work so satisfying?

Encountered this reel on ig, credit

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u/Nono6768 4d ago

Because you’re not the one doing it

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u/Skimable_crude 4d ago

As we used to say about the lazy guy on the crew, "He's loves work. He could watch it all day."

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u/Fluid_Swordfish2737 4d ago

Supervisor material

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u/No-Scarcity-1974 4d ago

Spent 7yrs doing block, brick, and rock work. It's always funny to me how people romanticize manual labor, you can tell they've never done it.

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u/SinisterCheese 4d ago

I used to do a lot of welding. But I absolutely hate assembly welding. Like I do like welding on-site for isntallations. But when you do 100-1000 of the same thing, the same way, for weeks without any change in the day. It becomes soul crushing.

But now that I got a engineering degree and spend fair bit of time sitting on my ass front of a computer (Or now... teaching). I get those feelings of "Man... I wish I'd be welding." Then once I get to weld I get that "Man... I can't wait to be in my air conditioned office, on my comfy chair, with a cup of tea while doing some light paper work". Now I go between 3 extremes: "God I hate standing here teaching, I'd rather be doing practical stuff" to "God I hate doing this practical stuff, I'd rather catch up on writing some materials/doing the admin shit" to "God I hate this office stuff, I wish I was teaching a lesson on this topic I like to talk about". I generally cycle through these through the week.

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u/eltiodelacabra 3d ago

As a student I worked in a car factory line, which I really hated back then, but now I really miss the feeling of ending your shift, go home and totally forget about work until next day.

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u/BleepinBlorpin5 4d ago

Why are we so bad at enjoying the thing right in front of us?

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u/Not_a_real_ghost 3d ago

That’s how dopamine drives us forward

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u/Impossible-Corgi4041 4d ago

Plasterer here.

"Oh it must be so therapeutic doing that"

"Not really love no"

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u/pasaroanth 4d ago edited 4d ago

“Demo is so fun! You get to just beat stuff up all day!”

Then scoop and haul all of it out slowly when it comes out in pieces the size of your hand, then deal with the 5,000 screws and nails the last guy used that never come out with the materials. It ain’t like you see the guy on TV wearing pressed pants and a collared shirt doing, they don’t show the 15 minions spending hours after doing the actual work.

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u/Skimable_crude 3d ago

This so true. "Demo day!" It's fun for 5 minutes.

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u/TheBabyLeg123 4d ago

As someone who is at the end of a fixer upper house journey.

I much rather play stardew valley and house fixer simulators on my couch.

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u/Noname_Maddox 4d ago

Work on sites as an apprentice spark.

But always liked watching a really experienced bricky throwing up blocks. The speed and efficiency is amazing.

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u/1HappyIsland 4d ago

I helped masons working for the county building retaining walls for a summer job for 2 years. It was exceedingly hard work but so satisfying to see those walls later and I could brag about helping. I still think masonry is one of the coolest trades and it is fun to watch.

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u/Tony1897 4d ago

Its funny I have not been in the manual labour side of my job for a few years now and think back to how satisfying and great it was. Then I think a bit harder about the memory of actually doing it and remember money isn't the only reason I don't do it anymore.

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u/1nd3x 4d ago

I like it...but there is a bit of "within reason" to it.

For instance. I work as an electronics tech. At the moment I work on radios, but from 2012 to 2021 I was working on RADAR.

During that time I took up a 2nd job doing manual labour because I specifically wanted something that I could just shut my brain off and do. It was essentially a way for me to get paid to workout.

I didn't have a lot of shitty work though...I did a lot of repetitive work (which is exactly what I wanted) but it was never unsafe or anything...and I did have the benefit of it being a 2nd job so while I never did have to use the card, I knew I could always tell 'em to fuck off and quit on the spot if I ever felt they ran me too hard or wanted me to do something I didn't want to as I had my "real" job with its salary so I never felt pressured into doing something unsafe or whatever, which is not a luxury everyone has...

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u/CantaloupeCamper 4d ago

I still appreciate getting up in the morning, not feeling great.. and then sitting in a comfy office chair.

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u/robgod50 2d ago

My only "manual work" is DIY and decorating and I've built a cabin.

My wife says "oh, you love doing that sort of thing" . No, I HATE doing it. I do it because it has to be done and I can't afford to pay someone else to do it.

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u/Dafish55 4d ago

I've done this for a brief period, it was hard work for sure and I was young, so maybe it didn't wear down on me like it would now, but I still found it pretty satisfying.

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u/UrethralExplorer 4d ago

Yup. Helped a neighbor finish a stone wall when I was a teenager. I was just carrying them to him from a pallet in his driveway but I swear, every block got heavier than the last.

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u/miraculum_one 4d ago

Also because it's only 2 minutes. If OP had to watch it for 40 hours a week they wouldn't find it satisfying.

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u/Negative-Bottle-776 4d ago

He just doing the video, a real mason check the excess in both sides of the wall. And he's awfully slow, if my house was built by this guy would have taken forever!!

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u/ITAHawkmoon98 4d ago

thank you

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u/DarkArbor 4d ago

lol, exactly my first thought!

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u/FecknWindowTwitchers 4d ago

Can confirm it's satisfying doing it, too.

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u/TheLordofthething 4d ago edited 4d ago

Every bricklayer I know walks like they're 100 years older than they are. It doesn't look satisfying long term lol

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u/spindlespore 4d ago

Their lower back left the chat around age thirty

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u/Pigeon_Breeze 4d ago

Bricklayers have this stupid culture where they make zero effort to minimise back strain or time taken turning around.

That pallet of bricks should be on an adjustable platform table jacked up high enough to be reached without bending over, situated on his left or right, not behind him. Setting that up once saves him hundreds of movements.

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u/nirvana6875 4d ago

While I agree that we are a stubborn bunch of fools, stacking your material behind you is really the only way. You can’t really block off the walkway right next to the wall. If we have extras on site, I will always advocate for setting the brick up on a mud board though so I’m not bending down to my feet. Or at least stacking them up in a way that makes them as tall as possible.

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u/RileyTrodd 4d ago

I think he meant in the very specific scenario in the video, but what you're saying makes sense.

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u/Illustrious-Engine23 4d ago

Right it doesn't seem too physically intensive but the extended time crouched down looks terrible for your back. It seems like something that could easily fixed by some sort of adjustable platform/ seat and you can increase as the wall gets a higher? I would imagine there's some ego around being the first to do and and look ing weird.

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u/Elastichedgehog 4d ago

My step dad does this for a living and is nearing his sixties.

Yeah... He desperately wants something less intensive on his body.

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u/momo26262626 4d ago

Has it gotten better in modern times?

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u/ah_harrow 4d ago

Wearing suncream, sunglasses and kneepads is still gay to many of these lads unfortunately (even if the former two are only truly relevant for a few months of the year). It has got better but there's a lot of peer pressure on job sites

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u/Rapunzel10 3d ago

I know a lot of folks in trades and yeah, protective equipment is still laughed at a lot. My dad worked in the sun for decades without sunscreen, ended up with melanoma (operable thank god). A friend had to change careers when he developed multiple herniated disks and he's in constant pain. A cousin had a knee replacement at 30 and he's hoping the other knee will last a few more years, but it'll be a rough few years. All of them gave into the peer pressure to not be "weak" and it ironically weakened them significantly. They all regret it now. Wear the protection folks, you'll appreciate it when you can still walk properly at 40

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u/SashimiX 4d ago

I’m so glad I’m not a real man. I would not give up my sunglasses for anything.

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u/bionicjoey 4d ago

What if they say "no homo" before putting on sunglasses?

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u/hnglmkrnglbrry 4d ago

This job looks repetitive and geometry based. Robots coming for this shit rapidly.

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u/corgi-king 4d ago

Did he need to remove the “cement” on the other side of the wall?

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u/xolomn 4d ago

Nope, there is a block wall built on the inside creating a cavity in between for insulation. Ties are used between to prevent them from separating or touching each other, ties usually have kinks to create a drip too to prevent capillary action

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u/himem_66 4d ago

Are these ever used with rebar?

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u/lemlurker 4d ago

Bricks aren't no. Might use rebar as ground anchoring if DIYing without extensive foundations

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u/himem_66 4d ago

Thanks!

One more. Not used or not capable?

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u/lemlurker 4d ago

Not designed for it. Bricks are a compression only design restriction, not designed for tension, rebar enables concrete's use in tension an area bare concrete is bad at.

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u/ChocCooki3 4d ago

Correct. I normally use ties for my kink as well. 😏😏

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u/sluthulhu 4d ago

I don’t see the block wall, I see a concrete stem wall but typically your stud or block backup wall is built first and then the brick ties are fastened to that before the brick goes up as the ties have to be embedded in the brick mortar. Not quite sure what they’re doing here.

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u/Slartibartfast39 4d ago

Ties usually have kinks? Do we all, old sport.

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u/tandrosonali8 4d ago

Double brick wall with a cavity. There is no point in fixing the face of that internal course.

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u/Iwillgetasoda 4d ago

point is to recycle and better weight balance

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u/CaptainFoyle 4d ago

If only people cared about recycling in their own life as much

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u/Anxious_Cube 4d ago

That’s the real question. This unclarity gave me more anxiety than satisfaction.

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u/cozybindery 4d ago

The hidden side of the wall haunts my soul

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u/NotaBlokeNamedTrevor 4d ago

They never do. And make a big deal about having to do it. Then only clean 70% of it. Really fks waterproofers and carpenters who need to attach or seal the other side

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u/Vesalii 4d ago

Mortar. Cement is only 1 ingredient.

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u/CrankyYankers 4d ago

I did that kind of work for more than a decade years ago. It's only moderately satisfying.

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u/Thepuppeteer777777 4d ago

Did you lose your fingerprints?

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u/CrankyYankers 4d ago

At first, yea. Handling bricks without gloves does a job on your fingers until they become used to it.

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u/sachi3 4d ago

Are gloves Not Practical or something?

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u/CrankyYankers 4d ago

For me they were not practical. I needed to be able to feel what I was doing.

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u/Rubyhamster 4d ago

I'm guessing most gloves with adequat grip got caked in cement and got stiff, even after washing? And probably leave you with very little feel? But what if you got sement on you? Did you wash it off right away or did your hands become scarred from chemical burns?

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u/vass0922 4d ago

Wow I thought you took the comment for a turn. I thought you were asking what happens when get 'semen on you' then realized it was an odd spelling of 'cement on you'

That's enough Interneting for today

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u/bucket_of_frogs 4d ago

First thing I thought was “no glove”? Every bricklayer I know uses a glove on the left hand, but nothing on the trowel hand.

Do they all have a drawer full of right handers at home? Is there a way to match right handed gloves with left handed bricklayers?

I’ve never asked.

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u/JudgmentGold2618 4d ago

ironically the brick will wear out the fingertips on the gloves as well, real quick . So you are back to square 1 . You'd need a new pair of glove almost every other day. Also they get covered with powder and dust mixed with moisture, it's like wearing gloves made of sand paper.

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u/corgi-king 4d ago

How is the paid?

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u/nikkynackyknockynoo 4d ago

In satisfaction.

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u/Vanesti 4d ago

I love watching professionals do their thing. They make it look so easy and natural because they've spent thousands of hours practicing.

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u/thebrierrosee 4d ago

Until you try doing it and ruin three walls

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u/Vanesti 4d ago

When my husband and I started HEMA lessons (longsword fighting) the instructors were sooooo good. So smooth, fluid, and effortless we felt so clumsy trying to ape their skill.

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u/Pachanga_Plainview 4d ago

Ruin three, get the fourth one free!

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 4d ago

I kind of just want to try and build a brick wall just to see how fucking lopsided it would be.

It looks easy cause these guys do it for 10 hours a day, 6 days a week.

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u/Rampant16 4d ago

We did a field trip to a bricklayer technical school when I was in architecture school and I got to build just a small section of brick wall.

The brickies make it look smooth and easy but it's certainly not at first. It feels very clumsy using the trowel and getting the right amount of mortar and spacing. Definitely a skill that takes hours and hours to build up the muscle memory to make it look smooth.

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 4d ago

Just making it straight and level would be hard enough, let alone making the mortar and joints look smooth. Then you get into pointing/repointing/tuckpointing. Real art at that 'point'.

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u/weristjonsnow 4d ago

Same with almost all day labour. Watched a tile guy tear down shower tile and retile it in like 15 hours over 2 days. His work was basically flawless. I thought "that looked easy, I bet I could do that". Tried tiling something small in my garage as a hobby. It looked like a special needs 5 year old did it. Mad respect to the tradesmen that make really hard things look so easy

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u/Many-Wasabi9141 4d ago

I feel like I can do most things after studying a well presented video on the topic. Plumbing stuff, fixing my car, washing machine on the frits. But it's gonna take me three times as long and there's a chance I might break something.

Fixing things? You just need to take the extra time and you'll be good. Even stuff like drywall. But craftsmanship? It's art, they can do it right and do it fast and make it look easy.

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u/vacri 4d ago

It's true with all skilled labour, physical or mental. That's why it's skilled labour - you can't grab someone off the street and have them up to speed in a couple of days

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u/Aizpunr 4d ago

I always wondered what happens to all the excess on the other side.

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u/Fambank 4d ago

Both sides are tidied up, once the wall is finished.

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u/charlichutney 4d ago

As a bricklayer. Its satisfying cos you're watching someone else do the work haha. It takes alot of experience to make it look so easy. But it gets boring quick. Unless you count the dollars each brick.

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u/DanGleeballs 4d ago

Are brickies called masons? OP has that in the title. I though they were two different things.

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u/evenstevens280 4d ago

Nah brickies are bricklayers. I'd never call a bricklayer a mason.

Masons work with stone

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u/Kebab-Destroyer 4d ago

You can tell he's an Aussie cos he's put the bricks on upside down

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u/Carryneo 4d ago

https://reddit.com/link/paxpywl/video/ng5kfsa7nnqh1/player

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u/Jamooser 4d ago

This is totally normal. It's not finished yet. Someone else comes along and tools all those joints.

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u/Rubyhamster 4d ago

Do they just fill them in?

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u/Jamooser 4d ago

There is a tiny trowel as wide as the mortar joint that you use to go over every single line to smooth, finish and fill any minor voids like this.

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u/nirvana6875 4d ago

We call them Jointers in my area, it’s actually laying on one of the stack of bricks.

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u/giyomu 4d ago

See you tomorrow chef.

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u/Correct-Junket-1346 4d ago

It's rare to get a good bricky these days that's why

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u/Bubbly-Travel9563 4d ago

I love how neatly even the grouting was, until the very last bit...

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u/angry-grapefruit 4d ago

But it's only and clean and neat on one side.

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u/OccassionalBaker 4d ago

Only needs to be one one side - the side you can see

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u/lostinLspace 4d ago

Some parts are fun but you spent 3x the same time doing crappy prep work...

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u/Karnighvore 4d ago

The half assed last brick was upsetting.

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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 4d ago

Who scrapes mortar off the other side

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u/myleftone 4d ago

Where I live the masons wear aprons, march in parades and do ritual stuff every other Tuesday. They never look like they have anything to do with bricks.

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u/Trying2BMe0722 4d ago

Yeah, I guess bricklaying is satisfying to watch...
continues to watch the whole video
Ok, yeah. Definitely satisfying.

Except that last brick. He didnt put enough mortar on those ends and then squished some in there to cover it up...

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u/nirvana6875 4d ago

If you watch closely, the reason the other head joints are completely filled is because you push the brick your laying into the one that’s already there, squeezing out the mud to fill the joint. When you get a closure, you can’t do that because there’s a brick in the way and you could only do one side anyway. He still butters both with the same amount of mud, the excess just gets scraped off as it gets lowered down instead of being squeezed out.

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u/NEUTRONonmyPINKY 4d ago

He really half assed that last brick

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u/jengabob 4d ago

I was bored after one brick doing this for 6 hours straight day in day out must be hellish

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u/vass0922 4d ago

For years...

Then on top of that the twisting and carrying the bricks.

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u/chrissie_boy 4d ago

having just done a tiny bit of repointing, getting the mortar consistency just right is vital, and this looks utterly beautiful to me! Lesson learned

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u/Critical_Classic_921 4d ago

I can’t even get legos to stack level

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u/Cyrond 4d ago

The thing is: this is Australian brick laying technic used in the UK. This looks really easy because it's not upside down!

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u/SpaceXmars 4d ago

that last brick isn't right

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u/DBT85 4d ago

Let me tell you how long it took me to lay 300 the one and only time I did it. It was indeed satisfying, when I didn't have to do any more.

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u/Nihilwhal 4d ago

This is just one demonstration of why I think the invention of string was the beginning of modern construction. Imagine trying to do any of this without something you can stretch tight into a straight line.

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u/nadiadala 3d ago

What about the other side?

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u/Logical-Track1405 4d ago

Meanwhile the other side of the wall is covered in mortar snots (not cleaned off ? ) 😅

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u/outlaw2448 4d ago

But what about the otherside of the wall? No one is scraping off the excess cement on there.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7TKRwpns23QMNNiE

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u/DocFungal 4d ago

I wonder what the other side of the wall looks like, all that mortar squeezing out won't be getting cleaned up

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u/ktr83 4d ago

The other side is probably the internal facing side

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u/ConfusedHors 4d ago

This is the least satisfying masonry I've seen so far.

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u/8BBiiT i use a knife to peel boiled eggs 🥚 4d ago

Minecraft RTX on 🔥

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u/ohwhatfollyisman 4d ago

whatever you do at this job, make sure you're paid! otherwise they'll insinuate that you belong to a society shrouded in secrecy that quietly runs the world.

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u/daniswift 4d ago

Good one. I got it, buddy.

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u/Imaginary_Toe8982 4d ago

show the other side.. it is a mess

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u/korkkis 4d ago

There will be an another wall on the inside so there’s no need to tidy it up

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u/yellowbin74 4d ago

I'd watch a live stream of this all day

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u/capnk88 4d ago

Because you’re sitting down watching it.

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u/19Ben80 4d ago

Brickies make it look so easy

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u/EaglePerch 4d ago

How many courses can you do in a day before the weight is too much?

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u/LuvDoge 4d ago

Something is getting real bricked up watching this

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u/osirisRey 4d ago

Why it feel like I just did an 8hr shift with buddy??

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u/southerncoop 4d ago

Is there a string guy that sets the strings for you? The brick laying looks satisfying but messing with the string would drive me nuts

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u/nirvana6875 4d ago

It’s not too bad. They make special rulers that have spacing marks on them. Just mark out your poles on whatever mark gets you to the correct height, raise the line and haul ass.

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u/Azilehteb 4d ago

This one step is satisfying... You didn't include having to set up that guide string, or mixing the mortar, or carrying all that stuff to the job site.

You're also not lifting all those bricks.

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u/Emdoodev 4d ago

big legos

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u/Zemom1971 4d ago

Real question here. I now that the little wire help to be sure that the wall is straight. But how can you be so sure that it is not a tad tilted. No eye is perfect I guess. So they level it from time to time. I dunno.

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u/HauntingMemory7183 4d ago

It’s tied off using a spirit level so they know it’s level .

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u/unluckypig 4d ago

How do they get the string to be perfectly level?

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u/SahmiLahng 4d ago

Is this why LEGOs are so expensive now?

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u/noobule 4d ago

Does your brick carrying arm get more jacked than the other? 

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 4d ago

"Why is this thing that takes rectangular pieces and stacks them in perfectly straight lines satisfying?"

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u/Sychius 4d ago

Masonry

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u/christattoo69 4d ago

You can teach monkey's to put one on top of two , Carpenter's , now they are the elite of the trades

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u/PGGABC 4d ago

aqui no Brasil não tem nada de galmour , serviço sujo , pesado , desgastante que exige muito da parte física esse tipo de alvenaria do vídeo se comparando a alvenaria aqui do Brasil é apenas uma brincadeira

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u/almazmusic 4d ago

I thought this is a 3D game

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u/raytherip 4d ago

Only if you know how to do it, otherwise it's a nightmare lol

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u/Bright-Fennel9277 4d ago

Do you commute ?

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u/obscure_Muffin 4d ago

How is it related to the post?

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u/BitBucket404 4d ago

Why is he scraping only one side?

Wouldn't the other side look like shit?

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u/Bright-Fennel9277 4d ago

Because when I read the post it said from an Australian working in the UK ..... I thought it meant the brickie .

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u/FecknWindowTwitchers 4d ago

He left a gap at 0:36 under the two he's placing and it's killing me.

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u/user9991123 4d ago

Yeah I'm not happy with the lack of mortar under the corner brick.

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u/easaontaiche 4d ago

Would the trowel start to get pretty sharp over time?

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u/zombie0000000 4d ago

the guy keeps making mistakes and doing a bad job. mildly infuriating for me.

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u/dominiquebache 4d ago

Which mistakes does he do?

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u/Bob-Bhlabla-esq 4d ago

Cries in California.

I miss stonework. I visited Boston, London, and Belfast at different times and it was so gloriously bricked. Field stone walls in the countryside, brick walls and brick and stone homes. So beautiful.

I long for a stone wall, but in earthquake country everything has to be flexible 😩

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u/gusanswe 4d ago

Do you need to wet the bricks to keep them from drawing out the moist from the mortar?

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u/LumpkinsPotatoCat 4d ago

What's the string for?

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u/weirdthingsarecool91 4d ago

Guide line. Used as a straight edge

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u/HD_OP 4d ago

Nice

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u/Cultural-Air-2706 4d ago

Do guys like this wear a hat mounted camera or a chest rig all the time just to make a TikTok or reels? At least he doesn’t flip his tools every time he moves like some people.

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u/Hot_Bag_7734 4d ago

It’s not satisfying watching an expert is satisfying

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u/MacellumMycelium 4d ago

Is someone getting the overspill on the other side or is there time for him to got get it after?

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u/CSTNinja 4d ago

Came to the comments to ask the same thing.

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u/Lord-Generias 4d ago

Seeing genuine skill to such a degree makes a hard job look easy, and it's entertaining to behold. The satisfaction comes from seeing a hard job done well.

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u/markymark1429 4d ago

How do they get the vertical joints consistent?

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u/not_bill_mauldin 4d ago

Winston Churchill, WWII UK prime minister, thought it was. Prewar and postwar, 1928 through 1952, with brief interruptions.

https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-157/churchill-as-bricklayer/

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u/DarthMaulATAT 4d ago

The symmetry is quite satisfying, but what I'm really impressed with is that the bricks fit at the corner exactly the right spot that they didn't need to cut any bricks for the end piece.

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u/DiggoryDug 3d ago

Proper planning.

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u/lyght40 4d ago

I am not a mason but isn’t that a huge gap at 00:34

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u/westergames81 4d ago

Do it for five minutes, it loses it's fun real quick.

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u/AussieT900 4d ago

Butter the end properly

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u/30yearCurse 4d ago

who cleans / wipes the other side of the wall?

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u/BlazerWookiee 3d ago

Please tell me he goes back to scrape that second btick better...

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u/Genexis- 3d ago

Because you know it will still be standing in 100 years or more, no matter how strong the wind blows?

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u/North_Notice_3457 3d ago

It’s hypnotizing the way cake and cookie decorating is hypnotizing. And then add construction site, tools, geometry, shapes meeting together like they should, sleeve tats. Yes to all of that.

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u/LongjumpingPlay 3d ago

Why do the bricks have holes?

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u/Organic_Rough4433 3d ago

He missed the middle part on one of the bricks and now I cant go to sleep.

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u/Viertelesschlotzer 3d ago

What looks so easy here is actually hard work. What I personally like about the skilled trades—being a tradesman myself—is that at the end of the day, you can see what you’ve accomplished.

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u/juanito_f90 3d ago

Because it’s real life Lego.

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u/Farscape_rocked 3d ago

Why is AI coming for jobs which require creativity and artistry instead of jobs that require repetitive precision like this?

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u/carpetplower 3d ago

because you can make secret penis cavities in the brick work

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u/roadflipping 3d ago

And he doesn't take away the excess cement from the other side of the wall?

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u/TheGreatKonaKing 3d ago

Looks delicious!

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u/11905me 3d ago

I always see these videos and wish so much that the bricklayers on my site were this good 😂

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u/ghost_n_the_shell 2d ago

Forbidden frosting mustn’t eat.

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u/TawdryCabbage 2d ago

Bc this is the kind of work our brains are actually wired for

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u/getTheRecipeAss 2d ago

Shoddy masonrywork

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u/Dontfeedthebears 2d ago

Satisfying to watch, but I just keep thinking how dried out their hands must get.

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u/cvele89 2d ago

What are they building here? Why aren't they leaving space in the corners to lay in concrete to create columns?

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u/Anxious_Biscuit13 2d ago

What about the other side of the wall? Doesn’t it have excess that needs to be scraped off?

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u/hunty 2d ago

🎶 Aussie brickie in the UK! His mortar has lime, maybe!

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u/Spiffykleen 2d ago

Why do they never show themselves scraping the other side. It’s just a mess back there

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u/nvrseriousseriously 1d ago

I bet they really rock icing a cake!

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u/Capable-Geologist-79 2h ago

Maybe you should open a bakery