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Well done and a good effort. The speed will come with practice and experience. I always used smaller trowels when "picking and dipping" and its important to have your bricks and mortar as close together as is viable - depending on site conditions. So you are picking the brick up at the same time as the mortar - and its becomes one fluid motion onto the wall. The mortar consistency has to be perfect for pick & dip as well. Well done though. 👍😁🧱⚒

If your gonna practice you should start by going forward left to right and the overhand you should go right to left if your going for speed your doing it backwards a bricklayer should be able to lay from each side but if your right handed left to right is going forward I know guys that will spot a twig in the middle of the wall just so we can both go forward left to right I knows your not the only right handed bricklayer that likes going right to left but it is backwards the short super trowel video you posted Charlie and Ash are doing it like I said the reason for that is obvious the girl is going backwards and she has to perp the bricks in her hand

What angle should the cuts be?

Charlie's a Machine.!!

Impressive I could do 30 in a minute with empty perps aswell

Pick and dip will never win. That's what makes Charlie so good, he's not stubborn, and knows what it takes to get the job done. Still wins after dropping the line twice.

This takes me back to my apprenticeship 😅

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Happy days, Mr Collison 😂😅

Used it loads

NEAT

Andy, you are a true Artisan. 👍

Haven't done a Welsh arch for years.

Done several of those over the years. My theory on the name is because they say the welsh are tight so this is a quick and very cheap arch to construct . No offence to the Welsh people thou👍

Ty

love it , going outside to make one now :), nice detail for kids play house 🏠

I love the Welsh arch, but I haven't built one since college back in the nineties.

Been a bricklayer for57 years never seen this magic always learning 👌

That’s great mate and probably stronger than a concrete beam. Thanks for sharing that.

That’s bro

Nice idea, but most of the video was of your arse! Better camera angle required me thinks!

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Have @Wonderful New Year's!//thanks

😂 brilliant one that

Them Romans taught the welsh summut ir did the welsh nick it 😂

Sid should remember them, they're something you don't see or hear about anymore with ONLY 2 references on Google images.

I’ve never seen that before very similar to splicing timbers to create a joint and I’ve never heard of a Welsh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Arch. I will forward this onto Sid I’m sure he will find it interesting 😂.

Very good I find it all interesting good day yesterday the FA Cup Final was good ended up in The Merstham Village Club in the evening one of my old haunts in Merstham. Head down now for six weeks and back to school 🏫 I’m actually looking forward to it I’ve got a feeling this could lead onto good things in my future .

Did Sid build that ?

Thanks for the info

Good investment for future generations!thanks for the upload and explaining all the details,its fascinating for layman.

What’s the reason for the lead half way up ?

Yes, apart from being a nice decorative feature, it does do what you say. Plus, straight chimneys don't really look much. Yes, frogged bricks (stocks) are still around. A lot nicer to lay than the semi-engineering bricks with the holes.

I rebuilt mine and a bricky told me the teathered out bricks are to stop water running off the cap down the stack and getting in behind the lead it allows the rain to drip onto roof and lead

Wow do they still make frog bricks my house 130 years old

Lovely job well done. 😊

I think the second way can be much easier since theirs better movement but personal preferences I guess

Not set out correctly should have even cuts on both side to be perfect

Very good explained. Never done one, like to.

Wow I'm impressed with Charlie, funny technique and I'd have said not possible to do so many bricks but hey it works for him so fair play. I hate going back to the spot board so much 😁. 600 + in one hour. 😮

All of the essex trowels in one place comparing their muppetry😢

Craig Ashley from Walney Island would thrash the pants off this lot😂😂😂

That Charlie kid wow.... His bricks are all over the place ffs 🙄

That Izzy would take some beating on the day

Great day hope you all enjoyed the day!

Thanks for posting this! I was super interested in this competition. There a many differences compared to the Spec Mix. I like that it sort of is its own unique competition. Laying solids, that's a big difference. No stock plank, optional? Indoors is nice. One starter course of block, I like that because I'm short! I hope someday brickies get over to the US, or some US brickies get over to the UK. The Spec Mix has 5 Canadian regionals this year, getting bigger. In my opinion, I think this is more exciting than sports. Well, golf at least.

Who won Charlie by the looks of it lol

I've seen this method used and it look fantastic when complete