2021 Fastest Trowel on the Block
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- Опубліковано 15 чер 2021
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The Fastest Trowel on the Block Competition, hosted by the Mason Contractors Association of America, is a showcase of industry craftsmanship and a testament of both the speed and skill of our industry's workforce. Only those journeymen masons who have the skill, confidence and courage to face-off with the industry's best are invited to compete. This is a contest that also proves how important teamwork is in accomplishing a final product.
The competition pits journeyman masons, accompanied by their two favorite tenders, against one another in a show of both speed and craftsmanship. Each contestant's goal is to complete as much of a 30 foot long long wall as possible, using 8"x8"x16" CMU and the provided mortar in a twenty-minute heat. Contestants must have a high degree of workmanship using normal masonry practices and hand tools.
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My lower back hurts just watching these guys!
I been a mason for 43 year's, my fast days are behind me now. Cool competition, glad it just showed up in my feed.👍👍
My back would go out in less than 3 minutes. These guys are amazing
Growing up with a mason as a dad (I was the tender during school breaks and weekends), I know this work very well. Hardest work I've ever done. We laid 700-1000 8" block in a 10 hour day depending on conditions (those 12" block will absolutely kill ya, wanna sleep well at night try this out) . The only negative I can say about the jobs they all did is that was pretty messy and lots of wasted mud. They are all a lot cleaner masons on a real job I would think. Congrats to all the competitors.
Try 16-18" grout filled block. 8" is nothing after that, grabbing four at a time. I used to stand them up one in front of another and slide my forearms in them to carry four. Pass the up a scaffold one at a time constant for a whole pallet. Lots to press. First year in id laugh at the 20yr laborers. Oh I also qualified for 04 Olympic rowing team and would bench 405lbs seven times
@@joeblow8206 wow man you’re so amazing what a braggart
Dad loved his beer i bet ? Cheers to all the hard working people in the trades.
@@joeblow8206 This may be what my dad called 90% solids. Never had the pleasure.
@@joeblow8206did you also score 4 touchdowns against Polk high in the City Championships? I bet you you could throw a football over them mountains too.
We should have more contests like this to inspire people to literally build a better world
lmaooo that wouldn’t happen ever
Build homes for the homeless instead of making competition. These barbarians 😂😂😂😂!
@@mediatationking2420 My wife was asking "Why don't they build a wall that they can use, like a brick fence somewhere"
I would pay 10 bucks for an entry of this kind of contents. It looks fun.
Like on the Mexican border?
I didn't know there were these kinds of competitions..
..now, the idea is cemented in my mind. Thanks
Solid joke…
@@as48507
Tanks - I like to build my jokes from the ground up.
I was a tender/apprentice for 5yrs in S Fla. early eighties construction boom. I never thought that masonry would have a fun competition. Good on y’all! I enjoyed watching. Brought back memories.
But be honest when you were doing it it was always like you were competing with someone else lol or that's the way I always felt... lol plus I think feeling like you were competing you done a better job🤷♂️😁 and I know you were just the tinder but still you were right thier in the action so I'm sure you know the feeling I'm referring too? Lol
@@paulrivers7248 yes, a lot of guys just lean on the shovel instead of using it! I haves aches&pains from grabbing stuff and moving it, when really, I should have had help. Ipicked up a 9’9” pre-cast lintel and carried it over and put it on the scaffold while the leaner was making excuses. I then whipped it out and told mr leaner that if I caught him, I was going to screw him silly, he never came back from break, I wonder why? I was just trying to motivate him! Some people pay big $ to go to a motivational seminar, and here I was giving it for free!
back in r kendals beging
This was pretty awesome , been on the trades for 40+ years and done it all , But subbed all concrete and block work because it is damn hard work .
I would liked to see the quality of the finished walls but as much as this was block laying it's any endurance competition that not many people could complete like these guys did . I started out framing with a 28oz framing hammer and every single nail was sunk by hitting it with that hammer , bent over putting walls together flat on the slabs and then standing them up completed .
These days so many tools have been developed to make jobs easier on the body , Nail guns for every type of fastener it takes to build a structure !
Not masonsry though , it's still one block at a time and strength and endurance , so in his competition I give them a bit of a break on the quality and challenge anyone bitching about that to go out and try it for 5 minutes , they would have to catch their breath before they could shoot their mouth off .
Hats off to those guys , all of them , it's the guys who do the tough jobs that I root for . Congratulations to the Winners !
Congratulations to ALL the competitors. Like you I did a smidgen of most all trades during my 29 years building and masonry, concrete and roofers have 100% respect from me.
I’m an Actual blocklayer, and these guys are jokes, sure they’re fast, but this is some of the worst laying I’ve ever seen,😂 this is the kind of block laying that happens in Mexico
I got your blocklayer , my work wouldn't look like that at one of my job sites and I have been told many times that I give away alot of work because I will fix a screw up that I didn't do because it it is close to or connected to my work , I won't bitch about it , I fix it so it won't reflect on my work , that's just me .
I think then competition is is to have some fun and speed is what the promoters are pushing .
Give guys a break and I imagine that it's not the product they would produce for a paying customer and BTW , hispanics were not the only race represented there and none of the other teams walls looked any better . I think that was kinda a cheap shot at the winners !
Good Luck to You in your endeavors , like I said in the very beginning , I bow to the block layers and concrete guys , they work hard and we all build on their foundations !
Plannerdude184u
@@rewright4621 it's not the best for sure, but it's about speed more than professionally done jobs
Should be a prize for the groundworker who has to clean up all that mess after.. they're the real heroes!
Ground work too easy brick layers have it harder coming from a brick layer myself who started as a labor
I'll be very honest with a bit more funding and bigger sponsors this competition could be as big as Strongest man. I have no interest in laying bricks yet I watched 2 whole videos about a brick laying competition.
I'm in
From someone that’s a union concrete mason, this is absolutely ass busting work and a lot of patience seen in these mens work. Good job guys
Dude I’m a masonry apprentice been at it for almost a year and just found out these competitions even existed but they’re badass to watch
Most definitely can
A lot of great workers out here for real for sure in Ohio
I wanted a run down of the best walls, and what the scoring system was.
Same here
Yeah the judging should have been the last 30% of the show.
Not for full joints.
It would have been a teaching/learning experience for people new to the trade.
@@davidparker9676 How not to build walls,
That’s impressive. I once laid eight blocks in 15 minutes, without mortar. I was trying to slow down water runoff.
Thank god for strong men who make our society possible
Mexicans all from Arizona💪
You aren't supposed to recognize those patterns.
Or the irony of them building walls.
I never thought I’d watch other men lay brick. Was interesting tho!
Me too!
Godspeed and Blessings to these Men and Theirs
We need competition like this for all different trades!
Most tradesmen I know are highly competitive, no matter the trade.
We have it every year for the floor covering trade.Another tough trade is floor covering.
@@WillS-pl8wg my buddy is a "floor mechanic". His knees look like my heel😅
This is just ridiculous so good respect to all teams
Brutal work, just did a block wall and do concrete from time to time as a contractor.....always sleep like a baby when these jobs come up......
God Bless America! what a awesome competition
These guys are GOOD! MAKE MONEY GAURANTEED! I would be proud to work with theses boys! 👏
Every one of these guy's are winners! Beasts!!
Wow I’m really impressed with the skill of these teams. I wish I knew how to late blocks or bricks
Who knew , This is my first time ever watching something like this I have to say its entertaining .
I love this style of competition
Absolutely incredible!
Was a hod carrier/block tender for ten years...tending two masons and making my own cuts. Can tell you that is hard work. Maybe the hardest I ever did next to running the grout hose. 💯
Been a labor for 15 years. Became a Mason but still labor to this day!
Yes I agree the tinder having to keep up with one very good/fast Mason is tuff but keeping two going is absolutely a job lol
@@FullNelson007 labourer for 15 years wow that's hard work I got out of labouring after 2 years now im a multi skilled worker
@@bernlew977 didn't say I don't lay full time.. just still enjoy the laboring part of it.. so therefore I still do it.. master of both so no need to stop either... 4th generation mason
@@paulrivers7248 when i was doing my apprenticeship me and the other apprentice were labouring for 5 brickies and still managing to get 150-300 a day in each, was hard as fuck but made me appreciate a dollar ahaha
This is just plain amazing
Needs cheerleaders and a metal band playing in the background. These guys make it look so easy. Awesome work men!
Cannibal Corpse or Emperor blasting in the background!
@@Nurgles_Rot_ Hell Yeah. Hammer Smashed Face!!
America is truly a great country. I never imagined there would be a concrete block stacking competition. It's truly amazing.
A la madre! Fierro pariente! 🇲🇽 solo otro pinche día en la oficina.
Great job guys!!🙂🙂. Maybe, you could teach this generation this trade😔.
Great to see this! I worked in road construction my whole life and it's nice to see labor promoted instead of the woke liberal agenda. This is what America is about!
Amen
these men are awesome -
Congrats paisas
Great video.. super amazing work
my high ass really watch people lay blocks... shit was dope
Gotta give these guys more than $8k
HARD work 88 s are heavy...tipping my hat... old mason here
It's amazing that, even when working at competition speed, they're still able to do decent work (well, maybe not 27:48 :-). And they must be in really good shape to lay so many of those heavy blocks non-stop like that!
that wall is not even 50% finished......... no centermortor, not even filling vertical mortor.
@@hdj81Vlimitedobviously for whatever type of wall they are building that's enough, the center mortar would be dumped in later if it were a real project that needed it.
The fact that they are doing this without getting dirty shows the level of skill.
What they did in this tournament a team of 3 did in a week on our site.goes to show how good these guys are .
Those walls looked like crap though, there shouldn't be a ton of shadows. When they were tooling their walls you could see how crap they look. You can get away with that 20' in the air but the first 3-10 naw lol
Damn, these guys are masters. Congrats!
Allí no calidad ni proligidad. Solo veo niños jugando a ser maestro albañil
I lay bricks
Great Job everyone. Should do a Real Coin Toss.
my back hurts just watching these guys
I'm more amazed by that muk it's spot on
Enjoyed that, fun to watch, not sure I would want them to build me a house that fast though, quality rather than quantity is what I'm saying.
Just watched a short of someone laying down 4 bricks and I was so transfixed that now I'm here. I've never had a single grain of interest in construction, and yet-
I went down the youtube rabbit hole and was not disappointed
That was fun to watch.
I worked as a block layer's helper during the summer of my junior year of high school . The hardest and most rewarding job in my life .
Did it reward ya with a sore back?
@@eshhbill9318 sore wrist? sore feet? sore shoulders? sore knee? sore elbow?
Well, I think I've fond my new sport for the next month
Now that's what I call "ACTION PACKED"
Shhiiiitttttt what a heck of job, congrats' to all, of course the Winner JoseS/IsrealM.
Amazing in it's own right but some things can only be watched for about 20 seconds.
We have 2 Mexican brothers here in north GA Dalton to be exact but they could definitely win this hands down... I wonder if they still hv this competition?
The most American/Mexican competition I've ever come across, I don't even know how this came up on my feed
I have absolutely zero clue how I got on this side of the internet but I'm not complaining lol
Awesome! Now have the electricians running conduit up in the web and setting a box with mud ring randomly so the masons have to cut them in, and work around each other and the conduit sticking up. Just for realism, add in the GC wondering where the door opening is supposed to have been. 😆
I love the craftsmen.
I am from Caribbean an it's very interesting most persons will not appreciate the skillset needed to do this this is hard mentally in the hot sun especially not easy I can tell you
This will keep you fit and make you wealthy if your good at it. Worked with my brother in law, we did 1,400 duplexes and fourplexes in Foot Hood Texas. Worked rat jobs on the weekends, made $125. a day. Not bad for a high school kid. He was the best brother, brother in law, father image and husband to my sister.
Dang, RESPECT.
You have such different blocks that most brickies use in England. We do use one like this on some jobs, but not often. When laying our blocks it takes 2 hands to place blocks as they're more dense plus hard to do with one hand.
haha this is awesome. How did i get here? Who knows... watching random and various videos while falling asleep and when I wake up and open the screen this video was pulled up on the screen. Must have clicked it in my sleep or something. Now back awake and watching it though. Of course a brick laying competition exists. Why wouldn’t it?!
Working hard af so that one day the boss can take that vacation to Hawaii while they struggle to walk and stand upright.
what a nice way to ensure you know what builders working potential is and compare them against their records !!! - documented evidence they can work hard and if they are not preforming to at least 80% of their speed they are taking the PISS ! !- waoooo bring this to the UK -
I love this
This is Superior skill.
27:49 wonkiest wall I've ever seen
This is a joke. Making a mess building crooked walls
That's why it's all illegal mexicans there. The real masons don't fool around with this nonsense.
You got that right! The judges didn’t even know that the line side is supposed to be the best side! QUALITY MY ASS…A COUPLE OF THE GUYS WERE GOOD! But the spectators on TV Never knew.
? And points? It supposed to be how many block you can lay in twenty minutes! And quality should count…this is from a master mason…THE BEST OF THE BEST! My Nephew won The State of Florida! And in this competition, he placed second! The winner payed one more block than he did. But they didn’t count quality… Florida has the very best mason in the world! “NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA” Bradford County, THE CRAWFORD BOYS WERE THE BEST EVER, AND THE FASTEST. MASON WOULD BE BUILDING A HOUSE FOR A DAY OR SO, AND WHEN WE STARTED OUR HOUSE NEXT TO THEM! THEY WOULD ACTUALLY STOP LAY BRICK OR BLOCK AND COME WATCH US. WE NORMALLY BUILT A FINISHED BLOCK HOUSE IN AROUND 6-8 HOURS… A BRICK VENEER ONE DAY AND A HALF…PEOPLE DONT WORK LIKE WE DID GROWING UP…5 BROTHERS AND A SISTER THAT COULD NATURE BORN LAY SOME BLOCK OR BRICK… IT FEELS GOOD TO KNOW YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WERE ABSOLUTELY THE BEST… AROUND GAINESVILLE AND JACKSONVILLE FL. AREA…MY DADDY HAD 4 BROTHERS, AND MY MOTHER HAD FOUR BROTHERS WHOM ALSO LAID BLOCK AND BRICK…THAT’S WHY WE WERE THE BEST…THE CRAWFORD’S WERE THE BEST OF THE BEST…
Tuckpointer. Awesome word...
No idea why I am watching this, I don't even have a brick but it's satisfying
It’s almost derogatory to end up with such lowly prizes considering how hard the guys work
Very good, well done. 👍
Hard work! RESPECT!!!
I built a block wall up a hill. The footers had to step up. Of course i had to wheel borrower everything down. An hand mix mud/ cement. It was about 30 feet long an 5 feet high. I never laid a block before. It took me 2 years. And of course i was drinking a little bit. 1 hole row i forgot to stagger my joints. What they done was amazing