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NickDG

A Few Bricks (Not Shy) of a Load . . .

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I guess I am just a skeptic with todays you tube society and all the fake stuff out there. I am not sure I buy it, just too many bricks and the guy has talent for throwing bricks and stacking them.. I have worked with bricks and the most any of the crew could carry where about 8-10 bricks at a time (street bricks @ 8lbs each) and that was a challenge for any of us.
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Bangladesh
Per capita income in 2009 was $621 per year.
You do it or starve.

I read a magazine article how they would beach old
tankers (some supertankers) and with just manpower
and torches would scrap them.

My father had and old phrase whenever us kids would complain. "Tell it to a Bangladeshee.":)

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I lived in India for a few months. I routinely saw very small young women (less than 100 pounds) carry more than ten bricks (they used baskets) on their heads and then walk up inclined scaffolding to deliver them. Dawn to dusk. If you want to feel really puny, try to keep up with a twelve year old girl orange picker right here in the USA.
"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

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I guess I am just a skeptic with todays you tube society and all the fake stuff out there. I am not sure I buy it, just too many bricks and the guy has talent for throwing bricks and stacking them.. I have worked with bricks and the most any of the crew could carry where about 8-10 bricks at a time (street bricks @ 8lbs each) and that was a challenge for any of us.



Seen them do it dude, the loads people around the world carry on the head is staggering. India Africa Sth East Asia, they all do it and with loadf that would make a westerner collapse
You are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky)
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Damn. That's one mason's tender who should be clsssified as SKILLED labor.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossilbe before they were done.
Louis D Brandeis

Where are we going and why are we in this basket?

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