Before the university taught manicured, never experienced a blister bureaucrat interfering busybodies realised they could make money out of the hardworking with his hands honest man. Back in the day before these dead beat wage packet thieving bast*rds interfered the way to seek this line of work was to go to a building site to get started. Now hard hats, fluorescent vest, CSCS card, safety awareness course £££'s before you step one foot beyond the gate to get to the onsite office.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 People still die. Over 100 in Great Britain in 2019/20. And this is with all the CSCS, CPCS schemes for example in operation. The CPCS card cost me over £2,000 to obtain after working for a few years out with the construction industry. Why should I have to stump up that kind of cash to support the bureaucrats before setting foot back on site when there are still accidents?
@@D0csavage1 I do not say that the system is perfect however less than 50 die in Construction every year. I have been in the industry for 30 years. I remember the numbers from 2000 being roughly 75-78. So we are improving. In addition I work in site management and I remember it very well that we would have a cut finger/hand on a daily basis on most sites. Many in the industry could tell you of scaffolders taking a step too far on a scaffold, hands being crushed by machinery, operatives falling through holes and men in their 50’s with their backs broken from heavy labour. Now many of the Pipefitters (tough lot) I work alongside won’t work unless they have site gloves. They don’t want to go home with grubby hands that never wash clean and cut fingers. I am unsure why you are forking out so much when I’ve just googled it and you can get it for £1650. Quite frankly if you are going to operate machinery I and many others would rather know that you have gone through some level of training and you’re not just a mate of the foreman. By the same token this protects your position by ensuring the foreman’s mate (who isn’t qualified) doesn’t just start operating machinery when he feels like it.
@@freespeechisneverwrong9351 *"I am unsure why you are forking out so much when I’ve just googled it and you can get it for £1650."* -- I ain't lying!! 360° Tracked Excavator Red Card initial cost Product Price: £1,900.00 Duration Days 10 + CSCS ➡ Blue Card will mean in excess of £2,000. In my experience of operating both tracked excavators and 180° backactors on site I have witnessed blue card ops of these machines shun the CPCS version on operating this plant because it is more productive their way. They have the cards that give them the green light for operating heavy machinery on site. Much like the learner taught before the driving test to feed the steering wheel through their hands, once the test is passed that is the first item that is tested on, thrown out the window as soon as the L plates are off. So I'd rather have an experienced operator working nearby than a fresh operator that has never worked on site before operating plant equipment according to the operating theory of a pen pusher.
@@henrymasters4778 Don't you know, those were the good old days! Being severely injured on a building site was every Englishman's God-given right! It's extremely patriotic and manly to be crippled for life 😍
Those old diesel mixers! 24 sand to half a bag of dust (the old half hundred weight bags). Memories of a mixer man, although however well you did it the brickes would always moan bless ‘em😅 Great days!!
My uncle had a mixer same as that, gas engine chain drive. We park the the mixer Behind the dump trailer full of sand an stone. Fire up the mixer one 1 pale of water one bag 90lb Portland cement rotate back to open dump trailer and I'd shovel sand and stone until the mix was perfect. We used auger mixers for type type s block mortar same for type n brick mortar. I'm from Canada things abit different.
Green Murphy’s , my uncle worked for for many years, the good old days, the old Scammell with I bet no road tax, no operators licence and a tank full of ‘Red’ 😜
I started on a housing crew straight out of high school, 1972. They wouldn't let me carry a hammer for the first 6 months lol. Told me I was to dangerous with it.
Pre 1970s loud narrators disappear, also that brick laying quality went down after the 60s you can tell. Guy looks like he hates laying brick. This music sounds like Chernobyl 🥶
It's funny how stupid fucks like you complain about health and safety going too far then complain it's not good enough when someone is hurt. You're probably too cool for safety though and say bollocks like "you just need common sense" when ironically you have none.
Who in all honesty gives a shit WHO it is long as they are not cutting corners and know what to do and are reliable? Lol long as the persons honest, respectable helpful and knows what they are doing and how to safely do said stuff then it is a matter of being well also for some of it physically able as it does still sometimes require crawling etc..
Brings back memories. The foreman never wore boots always a pair of tea drinker shoes and a duffel coat.the guy on the mixer would mix good mortar in the morning but in the afternoon it would be unusable piss always blaming the feb. You would think it was raining on a sunny afternoon when you looked up and dirty jack the crane operator would be emptying his piss bottle ready for a refill! The brickies would be racing each other so they could get away to the pub before teatime. Those were the days.
How to build a house! More like how to put a foundation down . As for the brickwork , hahaha , he could of used a catapult rather than a trowel and done a neater job.
I was thinking that there's some mixup of images going on, the "quality" of work resembles something that should belong behind iron curtain. Then again, when you compare the quality of British housing with housing abroad, it is in most cases worse than what they'd been building, not to mention anything that was built across the channel in the so called West.
@@chriscarroll3204 Bricky should know if its gonna be covered up its doesn't have to look pretty. Just be plumb, straight and level and follow the prints. ;)
No work gear, no battery operated tools, an old genie to get power, gas mantels to see with , double glazing not quite in yet. No king span insulation boards, gravity heating systems. Pouring concrete on pipes ! Rubbish money and very cold winters , a lot easier now a days
@@christopherlowrie9484 cheers, I had wondered. My old Victorian house had similar internal walls when I stripped them. Doesnt need to be neat mortar if plastered over, although the mortar had gone black and powdery, right mess that house was.
Might be Amhurst Road, E8 in background when we see the bricklayer working, so they'd be building the housing estate that comprises of high rise flats.
Wierd music. Like a gruesome horror movie. I was half expecting to see a body pulled up by the digger. I bet the average wage on that site then was about £30 a week an they probably fed a family of 4, owned a cortina or allegro and went to Bournemouth for holiday 😃😃
thay got gloves and hats, its not that bad, just no hi vis. hi vis is getting out of hand now anyway, too much of it. see bloody people walking the dog sunday moring waring frigging hi vis ffs. common scence used to be the best form of health and safety now its a money grabbing racket.
Gone are the days when you could actually get stuck in making progress now its health n safety tape every where for the new generation 😒 brains must be slightly different 🤷♂️ I'm 81 and still running my tarmacadam company sad most of the people in this video are probably dead anyway 😢
@@GeordieGibb the problem is no body my time got handed money for free we worked or went hungry, now you just line up at the social hall like a soft boy with no hands to scratch your self and let office working tax payers work for ya
I remember the Irish wearing the suit jackets and boiling the kettle on small fires for tea called them moles with shovels, couldn't understand their chat then spoke so quick, ii respected them for the back strength,.
These era homes are garbage. Poor concrete, home designs, plumbing and electrical. I understand times were different back then, but the house we owned fron 1920 was better thought out and built.
@@pauldunneska Right. But the title exclaims "house" for some odd reason. So I posted a sort of snarky comment about it seeming to be a bit big of a so called house, see?
