I love your old school approach, I worked with a block layer who was approaching his late 70 s and still set his own scaffold ,mixed his own mud,carried his own block. He stopped for 15 min lunch out of his metal lunch pail and thermos and smoked a lucky strike cigarette ,back to work.We framed for him on houses and he Liked our work because we were 2 and 3 man crew,hand nailed everything crowned the wall studds etc.His daughters could lay out and build footers ,lay block etc because they helped their dad growing up! They were both extremely pretty ladies who made good lives for themselves in business world , but their roots and work ethic were bred in masonry !Thanks for the great video, you remind me so much of the men I worked alongside !

I learned a lot from this video, Mike! That’s a simple way to make a lintel in the old school way and it makes a lot of sense.

This channel is flippin GREAT.

Mike, As always, I love watching and learning from your mastery and down to earth style. When we moved into our 1950's era house with detached garage, both structures had been very neglected. The garage is built out of 8" block (CMU). The side door was wooden and severely disintegrated so I decided to replace it with a steel door. I could not find any local contractor who would quote me. I guess they were all either too busy with big jobs or something. One guy actually told me he wasn't interested because the job was too small and that was only after I called him a second time. BTW, I live in Glassboro NJ. At this point I decided I was going to have to do it. The lintel over the existing door was turned the wrong way. The 7 5/8" side was laying flat. I couldn't believe that anybody in the masonry trade would do this. So I purchased two precast lintels and saw cut the block above the door and lintel to accommodate these. The old lintel came out and the two new ones went in the correct way. I had no previous experience doing this and no videos or books to guide me. I worked alone and the job has held up in the 25 years since I did it. The door operates flawlessly. I attribute my abilities to God who gave me the health and common sense in the first place. Bless you Mike. Be healthy.

I love watching your work. Thanks for explaining your thought process along the way instead of just saying what is happening.

Love watching you work! You could have your own show.

Very practical. Really like your no nonsense approach. Thanks. Glen.

Mike Hadock, Thanks for sharing your knowledge I can't began to express how you saved me from so many mistakes and time and money. God bless you and all that you do. Be blessed

Really helpful. No time wasting and a pleasure to watch. Thank you.

Mike, thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge, you are a great teacher. I subscribed!

Mike,

Mike, you’re the man, sir! I love the enthusiasm you have

I am planning to build my own house and greatly appreciate this video. Showing how to do each one is very valuable information. Thanks so much. I upvoted.

Thank you Mike! Now I know what to do tomorrow:) Simple, make sense, ... shows the principle so one can apply it to their own project.

to my point, a nice and instructive video from a nice knowledgeable and experienced man at last...

Awesome approach to sharing your knowledge on the subject. You are very knowledgeable and your teaching style draws one in, thereby making one want to learn more. I have been watching your video's over the past few days and I'm very impressed and have learned quite a bit. I will continue to watch many more if not all in the near future. Please keep up the great work!As someone has already pointed out and I'm sure many others agree, as well as myself you should have your own show!

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Very helpful. Thanks for sharing the method of bending the rebar before making a lentil old school.

Even though I'm in the U.K., and our building regulations (think you call it building code in the USA) here wouldn't allow most of what you show in this video, I still find it really interesting to see all the different approaches to building lintels.

There's so much, "knowing how your mud works here" involved in assembling the lentils. Wetting your block clean, really makes all the difference here. The rebar, the head joints instead of butt jointing it... The numerous passes with the rubber mallet, to eliminate voids. I love watching you work, & being a mason myself, daily I get to apply little things I'll see you doing oy