C'mon throw some numbers out, I wanna hear. Cavity walls or multi wythe brick walls?
Here is the story. Winter of '78-'79 working in Chicago,brutal winter lots of snow. A hide processor at 42nd and Marshfield owns a 5 story building with walls abutting their single story building. They were only using the first story of the five story building,paying high property taxes for more building then they were using. Single story building had 125' clear span bowstring trusses. Huge snow collapses trusses,reason being,trusses were rotted where they entered pockets in brick walls.
While we brought in crane to lift debris over single story walls,light bulb comes on in owners head. Wreck top four floors of five story,thereby reducing tax bill significantly. Used a clam shell bucket on crane to "bite" off tops of walls once brought down close to top of first floor level,walls needed obviously to be leveled out. Cranes are not too neat.:laughing:
Bottom line,those two abutting walls were very close to six feet in width ! Three feet each building. We set scaffolding on both sides of wall,ran up the two outer wythes to header high. The scaffolding was a section above the masons work platform. Tenders shoveled mud into inner wythes. Masons kept their trowels on mud boards,placed brick on open arm , one in hand,rest on arm from wrist to elbow and "shoved" them "home" in the wet mud.
That production hit over 2,500 brick a day per mason.It did take a heck of a wide custom made metal coping to cover the top of that wall.:laughing: