09-12-18, 02:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-18, 02:23 PM by tommyardin.)
(09-12-18, 09:17 AM)steve 10562cc link Wrote: I still can't work out how brickies can lay bricks in foccing gloves didn't even wear gloves when laying Staffordshire blues those used to wear holes in your finger ends, glad I'm retired now. We were topping out a 3 story gable when we took our hard hats off (middle of summer) site agent came and gave us a bo**ocking the only thing that would hit us up there was a plane told we him f8ck off, and lick em and stick em.
S[size=1em]taffy blues, fuck them things, 12 of them buggers in a hod you knew about it, how heavy :eek and how dry did the pug have to be. :'( [/size]
[size=1em]Yeah never understood the glove thing myself, I recall years ago a internal block called Lignacite that were made from cement and sawdust or fine wood chippings, if they were even in the slightest bit damp the tips of you fingers would be bleeding with a few hours after the midday mess hut session you had to wear Marigolds or you could not grip the because of the pain, but that was blocks I can not imaging spinning a brick around on a finger to select the face side with gloves on, let alone the buggers getting hung up on the line.[/size]
[size=1em]Modified: Just as i posted this I remembered a bricky (Jonny Ward) that I worked with many, many years ago (70's) that used to pick up and lay 6 inch (150mm) concrete blocks with one hand and would butter the end of the block while holding it. I'm afraid I was a two hander on 6 inch, but saying that I tried to move some 4 inch (100mm) blocks a couple of weeks ago as I was having a tidy up at the end of my back garden and there was now way I could pick one up one handed now, In fact I find them quite heavy two handed. That's 72 year old knackered wrists for you.[/size]
[size=1em]I dont feel 72 in my head and my friends say that the years have been kind to me and I think they have when I look at my old building mates, but the reality is after changing a light bulb at home I jump off the chair and almost shatter my frame when I hit the ground, there is no shock absorption left in my body and getting up off the floor nowadays is a major event, roll over into the kneeling position and slowly get up from there. If I came off the Fazer now I am sure i would end up in bits, don't bear thinking about.[/size]
[size=1em]And this post is called 'What Made You Feel Good Today' [/size] :'(