What made you feel good today?

[ogri48]

[quote author=ogri48 link=topic=23732.msg288621#msg288621 date=1544283640]

on extensions id have the labourer spraying water over the pack of LBCs for ages afore I laid em, gave me a chance at least to get a few down before I ponted up without the mortar turning to dust because the suction had killed it..
as fr what made me feel good (aside from talking about bricks lol) I had rotator cuff surgery a few years back and havnt bothered to try to get my shoulder strong again or even just exercise and loosen it, but last night I enrolled at a gym and im gonna sort the bugger out over winter, as well as getting fitter and stronger. im 59 now and mates are dropping like flies around me. im going down fighting at least lol...

[size=1em]Ah the old WHS eh! Used to swing the 12inch Broadheel, that was before Marshalltown took over the market. I still have an old Work Hard n Starve in my tool bucket in the shed, although it is only about 8 inches long now and decidedly bull nosed. I still have a couple of old Marshalltowns in the bucket keeping it company. One with the leather ringed handle and one with the red plastic handle.[/size]
[size=1em]Hey Ogri WTF is going on? I see 10inch Marshalltowns are being used more and more nowadays, the brickys are obviously not on a price per thousand if they are using them little babys. [/size][size=1em]But then on the other hand, you say you have rotation damage to your wrists, same as that, was diagnosed with rotation and impact damage about 8 years ago, they wanted to do bone fusion on both wrist over the course of a year so it would have be one handed for six month with each wrist, fuck that even at my old ripe age I still need to swop hands [/size] :eek

[size=1em]Plus it would at the very least hinder me from riding the old FZS with both wrists fused.[/size][size=1em]As you say the old LBC dropped into the water butt used to sizzle as it took on water, leave it there for 3 minutes, fish it old and watch in dry in you hand as if by magic over 2 or 3 seconds.[/size]

[size=1em]During summer before knock off time I used to get Keith my Labradog to strip the poly from the pallets of LBC’s and spray them with copious amount of water to make them usable in the morning.[/size]

[size=1em]I remember doing soldier courses with contrasting LBC bricks and having to dip each one individually into a bucket of water a second before pugging it up and laying it.  [/size][

[size=1em]You remember the Golden Buff and the Dapple Grey LBC’s? Scaffolder only had to tap one when lowering the lift and bits of the face would fall off them, leaving Fletton pink chunks of brick showing. Fucking Hate them.[/size]

[size=1em]Ibstock are a great brick, they lay easy and look good when laid.[/size]

[size=1em]One other thing WTF is all this 25 Kilo bags of dust about? LOL! When we had dust delivered years ago stacked on a flat bed we used to lower out shoulder to the bed and the driver would lay two bags of dust on your shoulder stand up and march off to the cement shed with it, they were one hundredweight bags (112 pounds) each, that’s 224 pound weight, now they weigh 25 Kilo a bag = 55 pounds and you are only allowed to carry one FFS.[/size]

[size=1em]Hard hats and fluro waistcoats, keep your legs covered and no short sleeves, I hope you have steel toenails on. It’s gone mad.[/size]
[/quote] bang on tommy. that which kept us fit and strong when we were younger is taking its toll now mate