I came off the hod in the mid 70's and picked up the trowel and still laying aged 66 . Utmost respect for hoddies . 👍

I did this for 7 years. Had hodd but never used it. Everything went on the shoulder, bricks ,blocks, muck you will get a callus pad eventually. Remember to cut 40mm off your shovel and polish it to a shine. Will make knocking muck up 10x easier. Always wet your spot boards. Never go home and leave a dirty bucket or shovel. Never get the brickies Gregg's order wrong. Keep everything dry..

I appreciate my father who ran the hod for 40 years and muck hod as well up large pole ladders in all kinds of weather ,respect this young man giving it ago

I'm n hod carrier and people don't realise how hard it is. A good hod carrier is worth his weight in gold.

I remember applying for hod carrying job £800 a day they said can you start now l said ok il hang my coat up in that shed over there foreman said abruptly no that’s your hod ……😅

Takes me back. Used to Carry a hod myself, blocks and buckets of muck up the ladder and on one job, we used a barrow mixer to build 3 blocks of flats. Honest hard work. Ended up having to have both my hips replaced by my mid 30's mind you.

Embarrassing, , bring back 1983 loved those days ! If . you where there think back and smile with your memories,.💕

Back in the ‘70’s I put myself through college working construction. The first summer I worked as a brick tender supporting 2 brick layers. I thought I was never going to survive that first week but gradually toughened up to the requirements of the job.

top lad.... getting stuck in without hesitation and asking the right questions

Good effort lad ...he was very willing to learn ...he will come good one day

Respect to the young chap and also to the way he's willing to learn. And a year on hope he is still at it

Respect, hard ol job on the Hod. He'll have it down soon enough💪

My advice to this lad would be , go to the toilet and never come back , change you phone and name and you can thank me in 10 yrs 👍

It's a tough job but with experience the job does get easier. You learn what needs to be taken care of early in the day and setting up the night before helps. A brick hod is handy but what you call a "6 pack" we call tongs,but we set them at 10. Keep at it,it gets better. Good luck.

Fuck all wrong with that. Good lad 👍🏻🙏🏻🧱

Go on my son 👍🏻💪💪 carried the hod for years and it the best way to carry bricks, forget on your shoulder, once you master it you’ll be wondering why it hurt so much in beginning!!

I remember the FIRST time I carried a hod - It was a plasterers Hod - Full yo overflowing - I had to get it balanced on my shoulder and climb a pole-ladder to scaffold around a chimney-breast - the ladder was about a foot away from the edge of the scaffold and I stood there trying to buck up the courage to take what seemed like a GIANT step and the ground looked Soooo far away - In the end the Spread I was working with had to take it off my shoulder ... I only filled it half full for the next climb - which went OK 😂😂 ...... Hoddies always make it look a lot easier than it is - Which it IS - once you're used to it of course 🤠

Well done!! Won’t take him long to get it. I used to prop my hod against the bricks - much easier when loading. 96 to each stack, guage the spot boards. Keep a bucket of water near for a knock up. Get your ties, dpc, lintels ready. You’ve always got to be one step in front of the trowels thinking ahead. And dont piss off the forklift driver😅Great days, it must be about 25 years since I did it! I could still do it though 😊

6 weeks and he’ll be like a machine I was hod carrying in the early eighties 4 years and then I went on the trowel didn’t really like that and became a roofer but I’ll always be thankful to the hod I’m 58 now and still running up the ladder

I use to lift 900 flags and 10 inch curbs on my shoulder. Now i have slipped discs 10 years on. I regret it now

I am a sparky. About 4 or 5 years ago one of your company’s foreman gave me the yellow bag you use to cover up the stocked up bricks, and I still got this bag, very handy for collecting rubbish I create at my work place

Pah I used to use a plasterers hod to carry bricks yes I had to pad my shoulder for the first few days but soon got used to it it had a longer pole than that one which made it easier to control

Australia seems way ahead in labouring than the UK despite doing Bricklaying for much less Here if we need to move bricks we have a brick barrow that takes 48 bricks at minimum,to load them on and off you use a "6 pack" it grabs 6 bricks at once with a handle,you unload your bricks like that Plus we also have an elevator to load bricks from ground level to scaff,so basically 1 dude loading 6 at a time at the bottom ground,and 1 packing 6 onto a barrow at the top taking it around. Easily load up the whole upper story in a couple hours when bricks are on the ground level. So in this video I feel like it will be much easier if he has himself a good old barrow and loads that up with a 6 pack instead of picking them up 1 by 1, and wheels that barrow around,the hod takes about 20 bricks there and back,while a barrow takes 60, you're saving time taking a bigger load there

Good lad i started like that long time ago Became best hoddy in England within a year imo When hod carriers went up ladders ?

Use to lay the hod on the top of stack at the back then load bricks from the front , just a case of flippin the hod onto shoulder from there, saves bending yer back , keep at it boy youll be sound.

Been a hoddy 25 years, first couple of weeks the hod can hurt,once you master it it’s the best tool trust me , hurts me any other way to carry them any other way

Noticed one thing the better you get the cleaner you go home, I was as dirty as that lad when I first started ,now I go home fairly clean

Fair play to the lad , give it a few months he'll be lifting in with one hand . Sooner or later , once just once he'll forget to move his fingers out the way like we all did. Fortunately for him he'll never experience 50 kg bags of cement. I wish him all the best.

Shafts far too short, a longer shaft saves your back !

Young lad fair play to him, had a bit of pressure with the camera on him, picked iup, took them to the desired location placed them nicely, mission complete. You know the camera man was disappointed because the lad didn’t fuck up.

I’m a laborer did hod carrier for almost a year on the residential side much respect to those guys I’m just not cut for that type of work no more

Credit to him..dirty hands clean money fella !

I used to carry three times as many brick and do 500 trips up fifty floors high and still go for a relaxing 30 mile run. Kids today are wimps I’m a real man

Respect!

👍👍well done 👍

Well done lad 👏👏,

Good on him

It is hard work no doubt about it respect

Apart from the drop the wrong way round he did really well.

get the lad a bigger stick

Norman Norman is he still alive ? Worked for them 20 years ago

Good lad!

Makes me tired thinking about a hod . I did many years ago but I couldn’t nowadays 🤣

Freezing.

Stand the hod against the bricks..saves repetitive bending mate,then bend and tuck your shoulder under the hid and lift with your legs knee's bent,and dont cut the handle too short. I was a brickies labourer when i was 16..im 58 now,great days but good graft and crac.

Did this when I was teenager, cried the first week. 3 brickie and me on price. Got there early, worked dinner and break to try and get a on top. Couldnt keep up.

Once you get use to it , it’s like picking up a feather

I used to pack but used two tongs for what we called a “trip” Jumbo greys worked out to about 45lbs in each hand. But the real trick was running them up an extension ladder without your hands to the top of the scaffolding or roof. I don’t even see anyone doing that anymore. Probably illegal but boy was I in shape.

Did this for 27 years none of that bucket shit. Learnt fast after a hod of staff blues almost took me fingers off 😮

Hes got the end bricks right way around which helps

After being a brick packer I had no patience for anyone complaining about how hard they worked. Most guys never made the second day.

Get all that up on a few block at each side it will save the back in years to come 👌🏼

To slow people down- but hod carrying is an art of graft. He wouldn’t have lasted till breakfast on our sites. Would have been sent to find a glass hammer !!!

He ain't a hoddy.

Toughest guys on site after scaffolders

GOOD LAD FOR TRYING 👍

My hod handle is about 4 foot long. That was how they were in the old days . Maybe it's a northern thing

Shafts needs to be longer prop up at an angle for quicker loading put 13 bricks in easier to grab when flicking off ya shoulder but he did OK for first time👍

Putting muck in the hod with one hand is harder than hoding bricks

Put the hod carrier/holder on top of the pallet it will save bending down to pick it up , work smart

I’m looking for the comment “In my day we carried 400 bricks in a dozer bucket, 16 hours a day for 20 brickies”

I love the hod buzzing around all day.. but we got to start some where i got this lad with a box of fallopian tube for the scaffolding so u dont bang your arms took him an hour of emptying a massive 18ft container i told him there at the back.. least now he will never get done again

Never used a hod, i could never get on with it. Now im a line rat 😭😭😭🤣🤣

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As the man said shaft too short longer lean on a upright pallet

Bigger handle on hod will do u world of good will do back in with handle that small

Give him a sponge for gots sake 😊

Is it worth having the stale Jesus it’s way to small 😂😂😂😂

Tidy ya scaffolding up

someone should help bought him some primark specials so he doesn't help to ruin is armani and locaste 😂😂

Kid, get yourself an apprenticeship. Doing this will age you in know time. I'm a roofer an my hips are shot. 😬😬🇮🇪

place your hod on the pallet of bricks,doing it like that is not good for your back,you are bending down and oicking bricks .once you have loaded the hod just get your hand underneath and push it up on to your shoulder.

Here they come with a brick in their hand men with heads filled up with sand. Enough said

Quicker doing it by hand 12 at a time and with less issues on the back than this chaps having here

He's needs to clean that scaffold there's crap everywhere . That's how accidents happen . The labourers are only as good as the teachers

Can he put muck in it, climb a ladder onto scaffold walk round obstacles without it going down his back. No videos of hod carriers with their cut down nice clean shovel putting muck in the hod.

Back in my day, in America, our hods carried 19 bricks (I see yours only carries 12🙁).. We also had mortar hods that carried the equivalent of two 5 gallon buckets of mortar. We carried those hods of brick and mortar up 40 foot ladders on chimneys all day long. Our scaffolds didn't have No Safety Rails at all. We didn't need them because we were bad ass. Not sissies like laborers today are, with all the bullshit safety regulations and little tiny hods.😉😅

Have you ever heard of brick tongs? You can carry twice as much. It's faster and easier!!!

Bro.. Brick tongs lol

Use a hod stand

Done the game for years ,, takes technique

This makes me cringe, I getting flashbacks of yelling if I ever had to make a mason reach that low and mixed orientation of stock. “Brick Tongs” pull off cube by row and stock in uniform position waste high, faster n less handling. 30 years ago and another life.

Get a different hod; this one's useless. The handle needs to be long enough to load the hod stood up and to then lift it onto your shoulder.!

Get a pair of brick grabs much easier and faster mate

He should have paid attention at school and he wouldn't be carrying bricks

Brick clamps 10x easier Nd 10x quicker

Jack the job it gets a job with the water board get a van easy job

The pole is too short

Should of had bigger stick.. Less bending down.. Bad tutoring here. 😜

Make a wooden stand itll be easyer on you old ex hoddy

Too slow mate .

Not even legal in the states

Slowest hod ever

Reason why young lads hate construction because your using bullshit methods keep it up he will be out by time he 40

2 brick carriers much better

Legend has it hes still loading out that job now