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Mike Staples
Springfield, IL · a year ago
HOT

It's sad, I see a lot of newcomers that charge professional prices for shoddy work There's still those who learned from their dad, their uncle, or grandfather, but a lot of them today watch an amateur filming himself doing a job for the 1st time himself on U-Tube & think that they know enough to charge like a pro. That's where I came in to come behind them& fix the problems they created. It's usually older people that don't know prices for work & trust they know what they are doing. I'm 67 doing construction work since I was 16, done about everything on a house. I'm disabled now but still help friends & family with things that others screwed up. I tell them I start out slow & get slower as I go throughout the day. I'll make a little. A lot of times, I'll break even just to help out. America has a shortage of true craftsmen.

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Tonio Baronio
Clarksville, TN · a year ago

Hey maga… that’s how it should look when a guy steps in a knows what he’s doing. Just saying. He didn’t knock down the whole thing blame someone else and bring in someone less qualified then take credit it for it.

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Dick
Waynesville, MO · 5 months ago

looks terrible still

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Tina Williams
Cornelius, OR · a year ago

n0w thats a master mason!!

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Leah LoGalbo
Melbourne, FL · a year ago

There’s nothing better than older people who have a wonderful attitude and trade we could learn from these masters like you to have a good neighbor like that🥰

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Arthur C Hilliker
Hertford, NC · a year ago

THIS is what's missing in society today. The handing down of trades VOLUNTARILY. MANY things simply CAN NOT be learned in schools. ON THE JOB TRAINING, HAS TO, go along with an education, or the education is WASTED !!!

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LaLo ...
a year ago

My dad was a brick layer in his time he started at the age of about 16 in old Mexico but learned the trade and all his life until he retired that’s all he ever did . It’s good money but very hard work in all types of weather ..!! He would help out the family in some projects and taught some of my cousins the trade . He could break a brick in any size , shape that he wanted with one blow !! It’s Wa so cool too watch that .

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Shannon Wood
Pocahontas, IA · 8 months ago

so he flips a trowel

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Gia Kent
Edgewood, MD · 9 months ago

I am happy you gave him an opportunity..💕

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Miguel Gallego
Miami Beach, FL · 9 months ago

No level or string or a plumb bob?

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Eddie Golliday
Indian Mound, TN · 9 months ago

Old school 🤔👍🏼

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Diane Page Johnson
Long Beach, MS · 9 months ago

nice

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John Sanders
Columbia, MO · 9 months ago

OLDER. PEOPLE NEVER. FORGETS. HARD. WORK. 🥰

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Rick D
Shelton, CT · 9 months ago

My old man was an excellent mason, when he went on vacation he stopped to talk to some guys doing stucco and worked with them for a couple hours!!

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Rodney
Detroit, MI · 9 months ago

he is a retired Master masonry man I think I said that right I've seen him at work before they are artists good night

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Keith Nilsson
San Antonio, TX · 9 months ago

wish he was my neighbor I still have quite a bit of that to do and not close to as good or fast as he is

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Hunter Jones
Beaverton, OR · 9 months ago

I would love a job as a mason or brick layer. sounds satisfying af. not sure about the income though 🤔

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David Lee
Milledgeville, GA · 9 months ago

Love to see old timers laying bricks/block. You could calibrate a laser with the lines they lay

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Denise McKenzie
Joplin, MO · 9 months ago

Just love this video!!!!!🥰

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Ron Lovell
Salina, KS · 9 months ago

that's hard work .

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John Ackermann
North Bellmore, NY · a year ago

Great FUN all involved having good fun … WTF do politics have to do with this 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️some sicker than others

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money$hot
8 months ago

A little too much hamming it up for the camera with the trowel twirling.

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Ben Bonham
Leland, NC · 25 days ago

mortar don't look that good it's supposed to be grey

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Mike DeVries
New York City, NY · a year ago

I tended for years. sucks too. lol. not rilly.

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Karem
San Antonio, TX · 9 months ago

gotta love the old-timers. skills that pays the bills.

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The Quiet 1
9 months ago

bet that mans hands are pure calus.

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Gwen Long
Greeneville, TN · a year ago

Love his self confidence 👍🏼

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jo dougherty
New York City, NY · 10 months ago

😂🥰 love it!

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Jon Clay
Statesville, NC · 9 months ago

that's cool but the spinning the trowel around thing is only sending little specks of mortar flying... We try to keep things as clean as possible, especially when working right on the edge of the street, front and center...

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CrabbyGabby
9 months ago

Brickwork is satisfying and fun.

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Stizzy
Ewing Township, NJ · a year ago

Oh Mr Staples Bless you. If I had a house I would call YOU. We need more men like you!!

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William Lach
Danvers, MA · 9 months ago

he's laying the brick upside down! The frog goes on the bottom, so it doesn't collect water🤔

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Delmar Pow
Arlington, TX · a month ago

love it

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Franklin
Beaverton, OR · 2 months ago

it's not that hard to understand how to lay brick

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Conroe
West End, NC · a year ago

New guys used to like to spin their hammers like six shooters. They got fired. Too many standing around spinning hammers.

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Vincent Bacarella
Queens, NY · a year ago

😆 old school mason

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Steven Songstad
Wailuku, HI · 8 months ago

Huckleberry Finn

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Sean C. Eastman
Clarksville, TN · 9 months ago

Reminds me of my dad. He would've done this too. Friendly guy.

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Lori Muir
Lowell, OH · 2 months ago

I think that was awesome. A more experienced and wiser man just made that young new worker's day, and he will always remember the knowledge he was taught that day. 😆

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Todd Allen
Camano, WA · 2 months ago

you are a good looking woman, must have a good man 👍

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Dennis Jetton Jr.
Sedalia, KY · 9 months ago

He was just helping YOU acquire an education, teaching you how to do YOUR job...

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Jay Coleman
Goodyear, AZ · a year ago

Old school knowledge. Earned, can't buy it.

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Howling wolf
Monrovia, CA · a year ago

Exactly. After an earthquake in SoCal our living room lath and plaster wall had a 20’ long crack diagonally from floor to ceiling. There aren’t many skilled workers left that can fix this problem. We get this guy who comes over to give an estimate. He was like 80 years old, nice white beard, kinda small in stature, could have played grandpa on a black comedy show. Nicest guy. He then came to do the work and brought his great grandson with him. They patched the crack that you needed a before and after picture to see where it had been. Job was done well for a good price. But it was nice to see the skills being passed to a new generation.

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Old Tuffie
Eugene, OR · a month ago

You can learn a lot from the OG's.

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Donald Shinabery
Westport, WA · 16 days ago

you can learn. a lot from some of them old guys pay attention

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Heather
21 days ago

Men. 🥰 Just doing manly stuff.

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Ana Cunningham
Los Angeles, CA · a month ago

🥰

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Dawn Sneed
Evart, MI · 2 months ago

That was wow so human if him. love it. show me more full my heart.

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fguerin1
Malone, NY · 2 months ago

Impressive!

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SouljaKen
Galveston, TX · 2 months ago

them old heads be knowing it all🫡💯

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Lisa Starnes
Marion, NC · 2 months ago

if he's a good to fix brick with a cement!? 😆😆😆

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nonconformistwilderbeastman
Memphis, TN · 2 months ago

Wow imagine Moses coming back from the great beyond for a career in bricklaying 😊

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Runamuk
Akron, OH · 2 months ago

Pay attention young man. You’re about to get a great schooling.

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J P
Millbury, MA · 2 months ago

old timer was a good mason

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Anthony Layton
New Richmond, OH · 2 months ago

Ol school said that he is going to show you whipper snappers how it's done! 🤣 Looks like he definitely knows what he's doing. Good way to get a job... just walk up and start getRdone!

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Cooper Hamilton
Greensboro, NC · 2 months ago

It happens that way when you have worked a lot of trades in your life!

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thingsErik
Cheshire, CT · 2 months ago

the one benefit to bricklaying is you can drive by and see a lasting accomplishment. otherwise, it's just repetative piece work

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Barton Shelby
Jacksonville, OR · 2 months ago

Showing him how it's done .👍