As a bricklayer for 35 years . This man doesn’t have a clue as how to lay bricks

So, anybody watching wants to know, start with all the dry mortar at the front of the wheelbarrow or mortar tub and a small pool of water in the back, right in front of your belly. Use a hoe to pull in a little powder and mix it soupy. All smooth, no lumps. Pull in an blend a little more, right from the closest edge of the pile, like caving in a hillside. The stuff in the front top of the pile stays there dry. Continue in the back where you are mixing to get the right consistency, and dish out a pail for the brickie. Much less effort, and better mud texture.

As I watched, I progressively cared less and less about the actual project and began to enjoy watching you and your dad enjoy your time together more and more. I hope you guys enjoy many more projects together.

My dad was also a very good and handyman, I never got the chance to work with him in big project like this, now I always involve my son in every thing a do at our farm.

I've only done one project as a brickie's assistant, but from watching others it seems the process is as follows. First set up a line that will give you the level of the top of the course of bricks. Then you start laying by placing a bed of mortar where the new brick will lie.Finally, before placing the brick add a dollop of mortar on the end of the brick that will butt up against the bricks that are already laid. Then you plonk it onto the bed of wet mortar, level it to the line, clean up any excess mortar and throw that back into the pile you are using. Rinse and repeat until the job is done.

father and son bricklaying for the first time, I'm happy to have seen this

Wow making a hard job look easy. Brings back old memories from my teenage years. Can't wait too see the finished project

Sorry, but this is a joke, dad & son haven't a clue, just making it hard, but they got the guts to do it.

Nicely spent time together in a splendid location. wish you two the best

You can now appreciate how hard it must have been when they were building the railway tunnels underground millions and millions of of bricks set and all handball ye mind boggles with them on how they done them here in Liverpool we have the first railway tunnels in the world engineering marvels back then

I’m a Bricky of 35 years and I would have loved to be there to do it with you. I would have sorted out a nice Flemish bond for you and worked out all the courses for you so there would have been no cuts and it would have taken a lot less than 8 days, but I see you really enjoyed what you were doing. I would also have sorted that awful mortar out for you too. It takes some balls to do a vaulted brick ceiling when you have no experience of bricklaying. I will say, the bricks should always be layed flat on the form, you should never have to put wooden shims underneath the bricks and absolutely no mortar between the form or the underside face of the brick. Good job anyway, we’ll done.

growing up, my next door neighbor was a brick mason. I had the opportunity to participate when he and his family (wife, three daughters, and two sons) built an addition on their house, a separate one car garage, and a fire pit. I also had the opportunity to observe him and his oldest son who also became a mason do a couple of jobs for me as subcontractors when i owned my own construction company. I've never done a lot of brick work, don't ever really want to, but it was painful to watch the first attempt at getting mortar to the right consistency, then applying it to the bricks in preparation for placement. The happy thought, though, is that masonry is a very forgiving medium and thousands of years of doing things under disparate, harsh, and substandard conditions have proven that, since lots of ancient stone structures are still standing. Great job, guys, new sub. Enjoying your work. Missing my dad and the times we used to work together like this.

For objects built on curvature As I understand it, Hook's Law S/R = 10 ,when S is the width and R is radius, when the width divided by the height or radius is has an approximate value 10. The force is equal to the Earth's gravitational force. But if the height or radius is less than that value , the force will spread to the side. Objects can be made to dissipate gravity without falling off the ground.The part will be more or less hard depending on the material on the surface of the object used to make the roof.

I love when people do things they never did before.

God bless u guys. And look at the huge stone on yalls property! They would make great parts of future constructions! A big solid rock is a goodly foundation.

Differs so much from Mexican bricklayers making brick domes without falsework and using their cement spatulas to split bricks

Clam shovels work really, really well for mixing mortar and redimix in a wheelbarrow.

Get a bigger trawl shake up that mortar it to dry. Also just butter 1 end of the brick after you trowl mortar down on top of the previous course. Geez,z it's killing me to watch. At least you are DIY ing it you will be a brick layer buy time your finnished. It's going to look awesome inside when finnished. God love you man.

you should have your bricks soaking in a bucket so when you lay them they don't suck all the moisture out of the mortar and then the mortar will adhere better. You are a brave soul laying a brick ceiling with limited brick experience.

I’d be dunking the bricks in water prior to laying and have a higher cement volume in the mud with a bit more water. Is there any plasticiser in the mud?

Oh Montana, give this guy a home...

I’ve never trusted the Mk1 eyeball. First, I’ve always made “Gauge Boxes” doesn’t matter the volume, because you measure by reference to the number of boxes, if you experiment and find you need a half or some other variable, make a box that size. I also make the boxes tough and waterproof. But try to keep them light. On some projects I’ve had to make large boxes and put handles on them for a two man lift (for example into a mixer). Though these days they have those nifty mixers that go on a bobcat. These days, for larger projects, they also have those nifty bins that go on a bobcat.

"Bags are not light" he says, its a bag of rock...

Wish I lived there.

Pretty nice...you need a vent where your last brick went

I think a monolithic dome would go up faster and be a lot safer. Blow up an air bag, gunnite some polyurethane foam, tie rebar 12" on center, gunnite 4" of concrete. Backfill up to 25' underground. It's up in a few days. You can re-use the bags 13 times so you could make a bunch of root cellars in a star pattern.

Note to the director no one wants to watch a bricklayer in slow mo

Please tell me theres a video removing the interior scaffolding. 🙏 is there a follow up video? Or did it cave in? I gotta know.

please post video of how u did ends

😂Great video!!!

Можно было этот свод заделать в стальную арматуру, да и залить бетоном...тем более, что опалубка была...

I would have done the brick on the end first before the second brick

Mistakes where made

This really sad!

At that speed everybody is dead before the veggies rot.

r/oddlysatisfying I swear I almost jizzed when watched the last brick get put in

Great..my dad could not feed a hampster.

What in the actual F... are you doing ? Collapse

4 courses in, your going to need more mud😂😂😂. Praying you aren't in a sizemic area

Painful to watch. You needed to do more research on mortar mixing and consistency, and normal brick laying technique,,, but I remember my first brick job. I wasn't a heck of a lot better.

you don,t have a clue how to lay brick

Yes, you guys really dont know what you are doing..

the guy doing the narrating acts like a child, with the comments he keep making. It's a shame, because the older man has a real skill, but the kid ruins the video.

6hrs a day... That's a good day work?? 😂😂 nowhere near it! Try 16-18

use a bigger trowel!

Painful to watch....