Stone Mason Quarry, Full Immersion History 1977!

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• SI

  @simondavis750 · 1 year ago

  The thing that gets me about these videos is the guys working in a quarry are better dressed than most people working in an office today.

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• OL

  @oldgysgt · 1 year ago

  When I was in Germany in the 1980's, and was amazed by all of the cobble stone paving in the cities. Now I see how the stones were made.

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• JI

  @JimCoady · 1 year ago

  And they didn't stress about the small things, like  rock shards in eyeballs.

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• SH

  @shopshop144 · 1 year ago

  Hard to believe that cobble stones for paving were still made by hand in Germany in 1977.  Easy to tell who the boss was.

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• SU

  @SuperDave-vj9en · 1 year ago (edited)

  If you want to know what they are saying, they are saying that “I hate these damn rocks because I feel like I’m on a chain gang!  I believe that I’m going to look for another line of work to get into.”

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• TR

  @troyounce7935 · 1 year ago

  These men can outwork 80% of today’s generation of young men.

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• T4

  @t4concepts · 1 year ago

  If this was filmed on the 7th of July 1977 &nbsp;I remember exactly where I was that day.<br>I was 13 years old, and I was in a maths lesson in school, &nbsp;I remember distinctly writing the date in my school book<br>as the 7/7/77 &nbsp;and discussing it with my mate John.<br><br>Strange that now ( 48 years later ) I know what some other guys were doing, while I was mucking-about in class !<br><br><br>TURK

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• DA

  @davidszelinski5021 · 1 year ago

  My grandfather used to do that job in Poland

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• JA

  @janmuyllaert8565 · 10 months ago

  these men in their 50 ties &nbsp;could very likely be ex german soldiers who survived the war 32 years before this was filmed and probably survived greater hardship in their 20 ties.

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• SP

  @speakupriseup4549 · 1 year ago

  The good old days when men were men, not a single fluro vest, hardhat, safety goggles or daily site safety meeting in sight

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• MA

  @masons9541 · 11 months ago

  I worked as a stone fabricator for 3 summers in my early 20s. A lot of these techniques and tools are what I was taught to use by the foreman. You get to read the stone eventually and know just where to strike it. It was somewhat satisfying to just beat the hell out of stones to make dimensional building pieces. I was a pretty angry guy back then so it was a good outlet for my negative energy. Glad I don&apos;t do it anymore though that was HARD work and it didn&apos;t pay very well unless you were willing to work 50-60 hours a week to make OT. We had forklifts and workbenches at least, these guys are tough as hell to just do this all on the ground, very hard on your body.

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• PE

  @penta5676 · 1 year ago

  In the 1970s several historical institutions reactivated this older workers, some of them already retired at this time, just to document this old techniques, which knowledge would have been lost otherwise. There is a whole series of this old craftmanships documented in Germany in the 60s and 70s. I don&apos;t know, why other countries didn&apos;t do that.

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