Laying perfect bricks like dominoes - GIF

**Frank S** · Jun 15, 2019, 05:08 PM

The young man has a pair of hands on him that's for sure

**old kodger** · Jun 16, 2019, 02:31 AM

I knew a young man who used to regularly win a beer by laying four bricks on top of each other, at right angles to, on top of, and at one end of a fifth brick; then pick up the whole lot with one hand from the other end of the bottom brick.
I was not a weakling at the time, but I couldn't get withing coo-ee of copying him.

**Frank S** · Jun 16, 2019, 11:31 AM

Never tried any brick trick but used to hold a 12 lb sledge by the very end of the handle straight armed out and touch my nose I thought I was pretty good until I met a guy who could stand with 3 others using his hand as the center of the square then take the sledge and touch his as well as the other 3 guys noses using only the action of his wrist. He was a stocky little guy but you didn't want to arm wrestle him.

**ranald** · Jun 18, 2019, 05:02 AM

the only brick trick i tried got my backside kicked.

**greyhoundollie** · Jul 12, 2019, 08:18 PM

And just as the mason layed the last brick the Customers wife walked by and said "but I wanted the bricks turned in the opposite direction!"

**Jon** · Jul 29, 2019, 10:43 AM

What I like about this one is how the shape of the pavers makes this job easier, all the way from the initial pickup, to the throw, the catch, and then to the placement. There's also the irony of the stooped-over guy sweeping sand, as a reminder of what this kind of work likely does to your back.