The brick layers for our house would just pick up a brick and smack it
> hard with the straight edge of their trowel breaking off the majority of
> the brick. Flip it over and trim the other edge with a similar, but less
> violent blow. Much faster. Less accurate. Practice makes perfect. YMMV.
THAT is why you have 500- 3/4 bricks left to pick up when you build a new
house.. Have you ever seen a brick layer stoop down and pick up that 3/4
brick and use it again ??? It's got another good end on it... but Nope
...just whack off a new one. I can remember my uncle (old-time block /
brick mason) using every available bit of material he could. You wouldn't
have a bucket load of waste from their jobs... Now a days they don't
care... time is money and it ain't THEIR money they are wasting anyway.
later
John
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