Also,I was trained by at the time,a 73 year old italian mason,so I was trained old school,and the guy taught me so much.When I mean old school,I MEAN no mortar mixer,when we built a car wash in 2004,which took the whole summer to build,we mixed cement by hand in the pan.When we built a 200 block firewall on the roof of the carwash,we had no forklift,and I carried 70 pound sand and cement bags on one shoulder while climbing the ladder with my other hand.
Apart from bricks,I did lots of demolition and excavation.MY BIGGEST accomplishment was in 2006 when we built a shoe store and oil leaked in the basement and contaminated the floor and we were ordered by the city to excavate up to two feet to make sure the oil was removed.I jacked the cement which was about 8 inches,and with a pick,I dug and containered through two feet of dirt and rock to make sure all the oil was removed.Two weeks later,I CARRIED 400 BLOCKS,2 at a time down to the basement,(after they repaved the floor with cement)to build a wall to support the main floor because it the main floor was unstable. I'll never forget that year........
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RE: What do you collect?
Tools.....Oh Hell Yeah!!!!!!!!!!
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