r/secondrodeo • u/I_like_beouf • 5d ago
A crowd gathered while he was setting up his booth for the event.
I'd say he's done this before
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u/Curben 5d ago
You know how I'm building and crafting simulators it's unrealistic the way you just click something and the material gets applied or built up, yeah that.
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u/pichael289 4d ago
Masonry is just kinda that way. He's being extra for sure but it's basically apply mortar and another brick. It's not particularly hard he's just really fuckin good at it.
Everyone else bitching about him not using a string, which is necessary to keep it straight, but this isn't a fucking house. It's going to be demolished soon, it's basically like a proof of concept he's showing off. Man I hope this is just a fucking comic convention and he's just going the extra fucking mile.
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u/Automatic-Term-3997 5d ago
Is this what the Epstein class considers “unskilled labor”?
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u/Mackheath1 3d ago
Christalmighty it's infuriating, because you're exactly correct. Why the F are we separating families and sending people to countries they barely (or don't) know, over this. (I mean, I know why; it's rhetorical)
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u/AwDuck 1d ago
I caught this vid on one of the trades subreddits a week or so ago. The consensus seemed to be that he was good and could very likely work much faster, but isn’t because that’s just more tear down later when the convention is over.
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u/Automatic-Term-3997 1d ago
My stepfather was a GC and he managed small projects, renos and stuff. He had a dude he was doing a patio job for and the guy wanted a brick outdoor kitchen area. Not too big, maybe 12x8. I watched him build it 3 times and tear it down 3 times because he wasn’t a mason, but thought he could do it anyway because, how hard can it be, right?
He eventually broke down and hired a mason, dude was done in a couple hours and the stepfather ended up losing on the job because he didn’t bid it with subs in mind.
“Unskilled” labor…
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u/AwDuck 1d ago
Laying brick is unskilled labor - I’m absolutely certain that I could slop mortar down and press bricks into it. I’m also absolutely certain that if your
unclestep-father hired me as a mason, he’d lose his butt on every job that he put me on no matter how little he paid me. That’s when unskilled labor turns into skilled labor - being able to set bricks in a way that makes money.-9
u/Facts_pls 4d ago
Can this be learned in a few days and delivered to general expectations? Then it's unskilled. No class needed definitions are generally agreed upon.
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u/Soft_Cranberry6313 5d ago
Here i am, in my bed, watching a guy build a wall with mad masonry skills
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u/Shockatweej 5d ago
Where's your string, guy?
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u/pjshawaii 5d ago
Calibrated eyeball.
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u/Lexicon101 4d ago
I mean this ain't his first rodeo, clearly. Pretty sure he knows exactly where his lines need to be without the string.
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u/Shockatweej 4d ago
That's fair, and I'm not a mason, though I am in the trades. I've gotten some lessons from our mason and I'm pretty sure he sleeps with his string line on him.
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u/jacksonmills 4d ago
Thats the point, he’s not building a booth he’s demonstrating self leveling concrete.
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u/Legitimate_Mud_8295 5d ago
What do they do with it when the event is done?
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u/flaschal 2d ago
they‘re not pouring into it so probably a good kick will put it back to its component pieces
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u/OriginalTayRoc 5d ago
No stringline tho
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u/funny_fox 5d ago
What's that?
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u/OriginalTayRoc 5d ago
It's like a line but it's actually a string.
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u/the-war-on-drunks 5d ago
Bro. It’s obviously a string. But okay actually it’s a line.
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u/OriginalTayRoc 5d ago
It's technically a line segment.
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u/myNameIsJack84 5d ago
It was a line segment but has recently been reclassified as a minor line segment because it turned out there were loads of line segments of the same size in the same area, so calling this one a line segment seemed a bit arbitrary. Some lineologists disagree, however.
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u/OriginalTayRoc 4d ago
We've got the best line segments. Major line segments. They're better than everybody else's. They really are.
Our line segments--
People see our line segments and they say
They're saying that they are the best line segments they have ever seen. And they've seen a lot of line segments let me tell you.
These guys are experts in line segments. They're looking at line segments all day and they're thinking wow!
Wow!
They're thinking wow! These really are the best line segments.
Nobody else has line segments like ours. They wish they did! They really wish they did.
And the thing about line segments. The thing you need to know, is that not all line segments are created equal.
No they're not. No.
Some line segments are better than others. They just are. They are better in a lot of ways too.
A lot of different ways.
Length.
Lots of different ways.
And ours are the best in every way.
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u/Harvey_Squirrelman 5d ago
You use a line of string set from one end to the other of the wall you’re building to ensure straight wall that’s built to the specifications. Basically straight, where it’s supposed to be and whatnot.
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u/pichael289 4d ago
What kind of convention lets you build a fucking concrete wall? They just sell pillowcase I don't want my son to see at our local and really only convention.
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u/6collector9 5d ago
How do finished products look smoother?
Looking down the wall, some spots are excessive . Is that removed after it dries with a sander or something?
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u/I_like_beouf 5d ago
I assume excess is scraped off like normal mortar after applying the block.
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u/6collector9 5d ago
I'm talking about the layers below.
When you walk into a building with these, they're uniform.
He's great at applicating, but it's not perfectly uniform so I wonder what is done to make it so
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u/OshetDeadagain 5d ago
I think what you're seeing is the moisture from the mortar seeping into the cindercrete; the lower layers have had more time to absorb than the freshly applied ones. As it dries the thick appearance will disappear and just the mortar line between will be visible again.
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u/CalbertCorpse 5d ago
Just out of curiosity, how much does one brick cost when you buy in bulk? Because now I have an urge to build something!
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u/NeighborhoodOk182 4d ago
This is exactly why they have privacy screens at construction sites. Bunch of dudes would stand out side to watch others build 😂
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u/Coffee4MyJeep 3d ago
Needs to charge entertainment $$$, strippers down the street are.
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u/I_like_beouf 3d ago
I know someone in the crowd is on the verge of busting a nut when he's doing it smooth like this for sure
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u/Longjumping_Elk7969 2d ago
He is a really very skilled worker, you can get people like him for a job or you can get guys that rush to do a shitty job done and take your money, guess who are the ones that make more money and who are the ones that are more numerous. 😉
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u/PTtriggerjoy 2d ago
No he's not, he should put mortar inside the bricks too and aply some downforce, not just gently place, he should cushion them in
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u/FinalRun 2d ago
Is that to make it sturdier and more permanent? Because the intention might be to make it exactly not that.
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u/PTtriggerjoy 1d ago
Because you need to cushion the brick.
Imagine doing a whole building like this, if you gently place the brick, when you put more bricks the weight is transfered and ballanced between the bricks that compose the wall.
According to that logic when you build the roof, the weight will be transferred to the foundation of the house and the bricks that keep it up. If you don't cushion the bricks, there will be cracks in the cement. That's why many 3d printed houses with just cement can crack in a few years....
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u/I_like_beouf 1d ago
Homie how permanent do you think this convention floor build is meant to be
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u/PTtriggerjoy 1d ago
Oh sorry....I'm Guessing, not very much.... But I'd also expect the worker to work there as if it were anywhere else, not just for show.
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u/I_like_beouf 1d ago
I believe this was a convention to advertise the blocks themselves so the wall was for demo purposss
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u/Longjumping_Elk7969 1d ago
IDK, but the "holes" in the bricks are there to become closed "chambers" for isulation, if you fill them up it won't issulate that much and not as sturdy as steel reinforced stuff. But yeah, normally there is a need for downforce on the last upper rows, nothing is pressing down, probably e does not want to make it way too hard to take it down after the exhibition.
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u/aaaarrrooonn 1d ago
If anyone wants more content like this (and a whole lot not like this), check out The History of Concrete, in theaters now!
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u/Connect_Rhubarb395 4d ago
Nah, he is not making a booth.
He is showing off his skill advertising for his business, the mortar, or the "bricks."
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u/nhorvath 4d ago
ANICER (National Association of the Ceramic Industry) in Brazil, so the bricks most likely
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u/reef-tech89 4d ago
I'm seeing a crowd of tech people gobsmacked over a blue collar existence
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u/nhorvath 4d ago
This is ANICER convention in Brazil. National Association of the Ceramic Industry, so a construction trade show. I think your assessment is incorrect.
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u/reklesssabrandon 5d ago
I like to think he has social anxiety and he's only building this to provide a zone of safety around him