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You know you are mason when...

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#1 · (Edited)
I figured we needed one of those :D...


so You know you are mason/bricklayer when...

Every stucco,brick and stone house you drive by gets at least a glance before you drive off.

You wake up in the morning with numb hand and go to sleep with sore knees.

You never diminish other trades but deep inside you know they got it easy.

Most likely will scrap almost every piece of wood you have to cut.

You complain about prices on portland for two and half hours,and they should never get you started on prices on brick

Your foreman used to say: My daughter can do more than you did (and you think that must be one hell of a mutant daughter)

standing on 35 feet scaffolding in the dark while your help is holding the spotlight so you can finish the wall,thinking that they dont teach that in the apprenticeship program

You shiver in disgust when someone inquires about cultured stone but shiver of pleasure when you are paid big bucks for it.

You can eyeball the slope without whipping out the level or string line.

You might have heard this when you were just starting: "When I wasa like you,I can putta 1500 bricks aday."

In the end you still enjoy that you are probably only trade HO does not have DIY seminars about.
 
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#118 ·
Those are Brick? Boston pumps out S&H - they pave streets. My second home other than NH which is still NE is really down in PA. In between Chester and Philly 'round Valley Forge area KOP, is that your area Superseal?.. Off topic just wondering cause I am familiar with the town down there in that area aspect.
 
#122 ·
BTW I was born in Worcester for the Mass. users on this forum and there's a few, just to deflect the cast out and that's funny MA and NH you'd have to live here.
I like that place for at least one reason...
 

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