The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:32 am**

Old school house building

linky

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:15 pm**

Great clip, really enjoyed that. I would love that dumper

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 6:55 pm**

Really enjoyed that. Bet the house is still there.

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:18 pm**

I had two of the very same fireplaces when i bought this place, all from solid wall days

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:43 pm**

that to me has made the whole internet worthwhile
really little has changed in 57 years except fashion and HSE
I am working on a council house at the moment circa 55 and seeing blokes doing it is very poignant
those boot lintels are still a bas%*&d now to get out,same as they were getting them in
I didnt realise they made them on site
also the portable saw? sheesh
also the composition floor
i have come across 2 lately and couldnt work out what they are like 30mm of tar and summat
as a young lad in the 80s i can remember the brick lorry coming and having to be handballed ,never seemed to take long,but more of a team spirit on the whole site in those days

my old foreman reg wright used to dress like those blokes,and when you think of it he was 63 in '84 ,so he would have been on site back then

amazing find andy
thanks
LLL

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:29 pm**

loved the tape, how come when they were filling the mixer they didnt put their gaugeing wooden box in the mixers box then they wouldnt have to double handle it. can any one tell me how to send this to somebody else. my farther in law did this type of thing.

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:02 pm**

spoke to my old man and he used those gauging boxes in the 60s
he said it was just the way the clerk of the works wanted it doing
he said he remembered making the boot lintels as you had to suspend 2 bits of rebar in them
also the footings were mostly hand dug and 2 spits deep around 400mm in todays money
he also said that young lads would be put to work smashing cracked or chipped bricks,these were then used as aggregate in the concrete
LLL

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:08 pm**

digerjones wrote:loved the tape, how come when they were filling the mixer they didnt put their gaugeing wooden box in the mixers box then they wouldnt have to double handle it. can any one tell me how to send this to somebody else. my farther in law did this type of thing.

My thoughts exactly, why have a hole in the bottom? Lol

Ok to send to father in law...

Right click on the link in the first post that says "linky"

Click on "copy"

Now send him an email

In email right click again

Click on "paste"

Now send email, jobs a good'un

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:16 pm**

thanks for that, i thought they cast them lintels in place. but perhaps thats just for straight 9'' lintels. bricky does a bit for me tells storys about takeing compo up ladders with mortar boards on their heads, piece of wood with a rolled up hanky on your head.

Posted: **Tue Jan 17, 2012 11:55 pm**

two more for you

Making Cricket Bats

concreate

and they are from http://www.eafa.org.uk/default.aspx

glad you lot like them
cheers
andy

Posted: **Wed Jan 18, 2012 8:24 pm**

Thanks for posting that Andy I really enjoyed watching it it also helps shed some light on why no f#cking council house is ever even close to square to the one next door. It is amazing to see that materials and machinery have improved but the basics are still the same. Our neighbour in the 80's had one of those tractor and shovel jobbies and still used it on his farm I remember being allowed to operate the controls he had the contract to salt the roads and used it to fill old 4x4 army trucks with gritter bodies. It's now sitting in the field rusting away but brought back great memories

Posted: **Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:16 pm**

my old foreman as an apprentice used to wear a coller and tie as he was a skilled tradesmen.