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Now you have two jigs to place, remove, and clean[1] for every brick you lay. And you'll need to adjust your jigs or have extra sets to lay half bricks, window
by istjohn 9y ago
Now you have two jigs to place, remove, and clean[1] for every brick you lay. And you'll need to adjust your jigs or have extra sets to lay half bricks, window sills, leads and corners. The greenest of apprentice bricklayers would be running circles around you with their trowel, level, and string.
1. It's not easy to keep a tool clean of mortar unless it's a simple flat blade like a trowel. Mortar will get in any crevice, dry, and then wet mortar sticks to it becoming that much harder to clean. An easy heuristic to judge the skill of a mason tender (assistant) is how clean their shovel is.
- peterwwillis 9y agoI think you're right, but there's still potential for iterating over the jigs until they are more efficient. The robot in the video of the article seems to me like the same sort of large crude machine that predated the compact sewing machine. It took quite a long time for them to improve on it, but it worked, and now very few industries sew by hand.