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Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:37 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
100m was not alot for an average kerber.we used to get ave 1.75 a lineal in the late nineties on 10 by 5s.depending who we worked for in north west.the kerber who did wrencos work used to knock in about 180 m a day .as i put in my other post the guy from northampton put in 250 units of beany blocks a day .the welsh guy could lay 300 m+ a day with two labourers.they were guys who were u would be right to call in the category of best in uk .
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:38 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
no alas i have made other people money
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:50 pm
by ilovesettsonmondays
wasnt being funny gb by the way about you laying twenty five m .was just trying to say kerbing can be quite easy if set out properly and the kerber being spoilt running concrete out and usually have the poor young lad who has just started with civil firm having to string the kerbs out .aaah poor young lad
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:03 pm
by lutonlagerlout
ilovesettsonmondays wrote:no alas i have made other people money
i know loads of great grafters and they get to 55-60 and they are crippled with back ache and skint
best hoddie i ever saw was "muck martin" he was Irish and in his 50s in the late eighties, he used to go up a ladder 2 rungs at a time and down 3 at a time,he could look after 5 brickies, bricks and muck and his mixer was spotless
never talked much,but he did all this for the princely sum of £55 per day
they dont make them like that anymore
LLL
Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 10:26 pm
by GB_Groundworks
ilovesettsonmondays wrote:wasnt being funny gb by the way about you laying twenty five m .was just trying to say kerbing can be quite easy if set out properly and the kerber being spoilt running concrete out and usually have the poor young lad who has just started with civil firm having to string the kerbs out .aaah poor young lad
didn't bother me, not comparing like for like, your guys basically just leveling the bed and moving kerbs over a few foot.
thats the easy bit all the works in the preparation. plus me and labourer both just split with our partners there was a fair bit of complaining about them going on haha.
Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:55 pm
by rab1
my mate was a brickies labourer before he went onto civils. was told by the old boys if the brickie starts taking the piss- throw a handful of pea gravel into the mix and they`ll get the hint. should add 2 brickies 2 mixers, said it was the hardest he ever worked and best paid
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 8:40 pm
by Mikey_C
today, i managed to put my PC and the contents of my draw in a crate, lift a small fridge a 100 yards, write about 10 words in document, get the PC out the crate after someone else had drive a 150 yards in a van, have fry up and get paid a pretty reasonable sum. I still with my other half but that didn't stop me complaining about that (with others). I would have preffered to be laying kerbs.
My brickie turned at a hospital build about 15 years, they were building the XRAY room at the time massive concrete blocks with lead in them and lead shot in the mortar mix, he was told yesterdays crew had done 750 blocks and the chaps were lifting the blocks on there own it was lunch time before someone told him two blokes were lifting the each block and had only done 200 in day.
Posted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 6:57 am
by seanandruby
Laid a line of 150 timesaver on my own with a combination of carrying on shoulder, dragging and rolling into trench, then lifting in to place. That is hard backwrenchingc cramp inducing work. It makes it harder with me having H A V S arthurs ritus in my hands and wrists. A chippy watching me said "cant you drive the 360 to lift them in?" My answer " yes, but i haven'nt got a ticket so its against the H & S rules." :p