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Mark McCullough travels to Bridgewater, MA to see how local bricks are made
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The bricks that Mark McCullough is using for the Arlington Arts & Crafts house chimney are the same bricks that grace much of historic Boston. He meets Lincoln Andrews in Bridgewater, MA and gets a tour of the factory where these bricks have been made for over 100 years. They watch raw indigenous clay get milled, mixed, pressed into molds, dried and finally heated in a round kiln to almost 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. After several days, the bricks are sorted and strapped and ready to send to the jobsite.
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@cerberus1595 Год назад

I still got pictures of my grandpa making bricks back when people made it themselves. It's fun to see how it's done these days. My own house now holds these large chambered brick blocks for its walls.

@lemuelseale1640 3 года назад

Watching this during my morning dump is quite appropriate

@ahassan3557 3 года назад

Hahahaha

@brianholt3567 4 года назад

great video. wish our school systems would teach these concepts. it may inspire people to want to pursue other careers or at least dive deeper into the subject.

@bobbymancini9069 3 года назад

20+ year mason here and I'll tell we can use more young blood in the building trades. I wish schools would push the trades as much as they push college or at least show that it's a viable option to make a living these days.

@Denver10215 2 года назад

Watch on RU-vid ...when the. Buildings cried ...part 2.... !!! You can start with part 1 the first 20 minutes are slow ... If you start when the buildings cried part 1..start at 20 minutes in..

@paulhawkins3763 5 месяцев назад

Nah bro, we need more accountants 😆

@kayakMike1000 Месяц назад

@@bobbymancini9069they paint the bricks...

@edwardwood6532 3 года назад

I love the Boston accent, it sounds like he is being rubbed the wrong way by some chucklehead at a local bar no matter the context.

@will6258 Год назад

That’s so cool that they use the heat during the cooldown period of the kiln firing to dry new bricks. That must save a lot of energy.

@KJEThompson 4 года назад

I've seen the "kiln" and have learned the process that they use at Colonial Williamsburg! They make one kiln and one batch a summer for Williamburg Foundation restoration projects and buildings. Same process from the 1700s!

@belltopcone 2 года назад

great vid mate enjoyed watching the production of the Bricks.

@jrcotton3483 2 года назад

That is awesome,watching how bricks are made so they be used to make houses and schools and buildings....

@hem8515 4 года назад

85,000 bricks?? Meh... They clearly haven’t seen me on the basketball court.

@PaulPatrickRogueMissionary 2 года назад

Well played playa!

@rjhayes8856 2 года назад

😂😂😂💀💀 you need help

@rosecarter344 2 года назад

😂

@jordanbabcock9349 Год назад

Hey, you aren't a quitter!

@artinauto2771 2 года назад

I like it!

@wesleybusbin Год назад

I worked in a brick plant. An stacking them when they where still wet was a good fun job

@littlejoe9381 3 года назад

Muy interesante. I was actually thinking about building a brick oven to use outside my home. However, evidently there is a stone/ brick shortage where I live according to Lowe’s.

@ryanmiskolczi58 Год назад

Nice bricks

@Basement_crusader 4 года назад

“…wow, unreal”

@Peto111222 3 года назад

Great...

@logand6697 4 года назад

Very interesting stuff

@heroknaderi 3 года назад

Interesting

@bob8289 2 года назад

thanks for the video. What is best for chimney rebuilds, solid brick or cored brick?

@DavidMayer-xg4td Месяц назад

The best brick is a very hard brick the hardest brick you can get they have solid bricks that are soft cement bricks reserve a lot of water freeze and crack, very few cord brick are hard. And the ones that are very hard have three big holes in the so there's not enough clay to make a strong unit the unit itself cracks very easy, you need to celebrate the frog in the bottom

@defective6811 6 месяцев назад

Brick is apparently the plural of brick

@kubtastic 4 года назад

At least the video editor knew how to title the video

@lewisp417 3 года назад

I remember making 34000 bricks per hour. This company is using 18 century technology and i am surprised they are going strong.

@plantmanstudios 2 года назад

How do you make a brick?

@Philadelphia19147 3 года назад

Lincoln? What year is this

@theloneviking9145 8 месяцев назад

The host was saying that these bricks are used throughout New England for sidewalks, etc., as well as façades of building. It’s my understanding that these Boston City Hall pavers as they are called are only used for paving, am I correct? or do people actually use these pavers for facades of buildings? I thought that these pavers, I’ve used thousands of them, are slightly smaller than a building brick. Please correct me if I’m wrong.

@ShakespeareCafe 3 года назад

just googled cost per brick $1.45/ea...definitely an energy-intensive construction material

@chrisroberts6860 Год назад

2:08 hand made too!

@Denver10215 2 года назад

Red brick lovers .... RU-vid when the buildings cried part 2..... It's 4 part documentary .. part 2 is where I started then I watched part 3 then part 1 ..then 4... Start with part 2...

@willsheehan2975 2 года назад

How did they make the brick for the lid of the kiln without use of the kiln 🤯

@thedoubleboiler6971 2 года назад

Making a small kiln, out of mudbrick/ bricks that have not been "fired". By firing the kiln for the first time, it will allow a structure to make brick, to make a stronger kiln, such as the one seen in this video. The bricks tend to be made of a mixture of Clay (which can be harvested from dirt just about anywhere) and by mixing straw from dried glass clippings in with the clay, it becomes cob. If mixing sand with the two, you get an even stronger brick, but clay and straw should be fine (have yet to do this myself, but I will do so very soon in the warmer weather).

@tambarlas5248 4 года назад

That was cool. They don't add anything to the clay? PS: TOH videos are still not showing up in my Subscription feed.

@hmzapata665 4 года назад

Same problem here

@sgvpotter 4 года назад

anything they add will be done when the clay is processed before they add it to the pug mill. In the video they did add some grit/grog/sand (yellow looking stuff) which reduces shrinkage since not as much water can be absorbed.When you first see the clay it's also brown so they probably add some Red Iron Oxide (fancy rust) to make the red stand out. If you see one side of the brick has a white side, that's more than likely a power clay they add to the bottom of the form so that when new clay is stamped it wont stick. It's like when you kneed dough and you put flower on the table.

@dereksmalls6238 4 года назад

Same they're not showing in my subs feed.

@zomalfa4363 2 года назад

He didn't say anything about the comment section. I have one, where's all that clay come from?

@roybuda1485 3 года назад

What does Rodger have, and how is he?

@omoroseikponmwosa2332 3 месяца назад

Pls where can we purchase the machine for moulding the bricks.

@Coldkill2001 Год назад

85,000 bricks is a wicked retahded numbah o bricks

@johnnyguyda1996 4 года назад

I'm getting the notification

@camdenstillwell4186 4 года назад

Johnny Guyda same

@johnnyguyda1996 4 года назад

I mean I am not getting them. Sorry

@dereksmalls6238 4 года назад

I'm still not sadly.

@sminthian 4 года назад

I thought you were going to tell me how to make bricks, but 2000 degrees? Yeah, never mind...

@kevinmencer3782 3 года назад

Actually, that's not as crazy as it sounds. Steel smelting occurs at much higher temperatures, and the Vikings could do that in a clay kiln and bellows

@artbautista7987 2 года назад

Homeboy is right! My dad actually makes his own bricks using a bonfire to fire them, after the bricks have been dried. There's a bunch of RU-vid video showing how ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e1bmfrWZlzI.html

@truthsearcherforever3211 9 месяцев назад

They should start making houses out of bricks

@poland_stronk3044 3 года назад

Pick up this brick... What a joker!

@turtledab8795 3 года назад

I got so scared at 2:19 cus I thought it was gonna be a cake.

@heroshyma69 4 года назад

This wasn't a tutorial but more of a "how it's made". I wanted to learn "how to make bricks".

@alablakelock78 2 года назад

Check Townsend's channel if you are looking into DIY brickmaking

@ctswampyankee8688 3 года назад

I've been there before...its way down some back roads... and I'll tell you what try to lay a smoke stack with those curvy mofos...

@samatarali5334 3 года назад

U.S family buisiness need to reinvest in modern machinery to keep up germans japanese way ahead

@bobbymancini9069 3 года назад

Yes but unfortunately the government things it's better to import than to keep jobs here

@The13point1 3 года назад

I always thought that the plural of ‘brick’ was ‘bricks’

@Peto111222 3 года назад

You is wrong men

@fazeeti2692 3 года назад

@@Peto111222 get ur spelling correct bro

@ericschmuecker348 3 года назад

@@fazeeti2692 Ewe two ! Speel chex!

@rathourd322 Год назад

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@Bonzi_Buddy 2 года назад

These guys are shooting each other smirks and looks which makes me think there were some vulgar jokes or friendly insults exchanged between takes or things that were edited out.

@joegoins9894 4 года назад

You could build a two story house 5 layer's thick like my house with 80000 brix

@jdm1066 3 года назад

See how the brick isn't perfect....we have poor quality control...but great salesmen.

@HarlemGreatest 4 года назад

THIS IS A RERUN

@Soulseeologia 11 месяцев назад

How did the horse and buggy people make so many bricks in the 1800s without any modern technology??

@user-ft3dp7kp4i 10 месяцев назад

in my village the brick still handmade not using technology like this. this sound expensive

@thejamesasher 3 года назад

so bricks are artificial sedimentary stone

@carltonthesponge Год назад

I just found 12 bricks

@mokiicustoms 3 года назад

Show the Vintage Trips not these new boring ones

@morgunz5365 3 месяца назад

"See how our bricks aren't semetrical and made sh*t. That's what makes them so great." Okay, buddy. Settle down.

@superlaw4611 Год назад

Dear Sudan land badly need to set up company for red brick by electcity machines oven now 1 doller =700 1 pound uk = 900 about Thank you so much

@gakoro3393 7 месяцев назад

now just to find an unsuspecting homeless person.

@peoplez129 3 года назад

Yeah uh....I've seen 3rd world bricks better molded than these. Trying to make excuses like "it's local and artisan" does not excuse the lack in quality, especially in America. And they're painted too, which means they're using subpar quality material and trying to make it look better. Brick should never need to be painted when it's brand new. And painting a brick actually traps in moisture, which results in degradation. And since you're using mortar to cement the bricks, you'll be introducing moisture. And since the brick is painted, it will absorb and trap that moisture from the cementing, and it'll be stuck in there with nowhere to go, causing the brick to become much more brittle and crack easier. So all these bricks will do, is ensure that any project built with it, will degrade much quicker. You'll be having stuff 5 years old that looks like its been degrading for 50 years. And since that moisture is from the inside, it will cause the paint to chip, guaranteeing you have to repaint the brick very soon, further increasing the cost.

@benjaminharrisongray9079 7 месяцев назад

Thank you for this information. I've since learned that the shale mixture used to make quality bricks is usually either left to its own color or its dyed while mixing it, instead of being painted red which would it does seem consititute cheap and less porous brick, aka. planned obsolescent trash. A pity TOH decided to not explain that to curious learners, and that they went to a company that would rather produce low quality bricks to show people this how bricks are made. It shows a lack of concern upon what they view. I suppose however, it does give viewers a grim idea of what is being put out there by a less considerate market.

@peoplez129 7 месяцев назад

@@benjaminharrisongray9079 The paint even makes any structure built with it dangerous. Using paint insulates the mortar from the brick, which means they don't bond properly. The whole point of brick and mortar is because mortar cements to the brick because of the chemical reactions that occur.