The Good old days

[Vincey]

 

[Cockney]

Yeah! They look really ecstatic about getting back on site. Lol

 

[essexandy]

I've still got my hod at home.

 

[Cockney]

I've still got my hod at home.View attachment 33393

And all the scars on the shoulder to prove it! Lol.

 

[essexandy]

And all the scars on the shoulder to prove it! Lol.

Shoulder made of granite mate.

 

[Vincey]

The plasterer on the right I’m sure that’s a Marshall town trowel in his hand

 

[Lastlaff]

Eye-eye....or should I say ‘eye’

 

[essexandy]

The plasterer on the right I’m sure that’s a Marshall town trowel in his hand

That's a Nela gold flexi, he was on his way to the skip.

 

[Cockney]

View attachment 33395Eye-eye....or should I say ‘eye’

That one does all the beading up!

 

[Lastlaff]

That one does all the beading up!

Just what I was thinking - you and me definitely see eye to eye

 

[JessThePlasterer]

I've still got my hod at home.View attachment 33393

Because I’m so young..... beautiful and charming by the by...... what is that?

 

[essexandy]

Because I’m so young..... beautiful and charming by the by...... what is that?

It's what a plasterer would use to carry S&C either up stairs or ladder. It would have weighed about 55kg fully loaded.
Fancy a go?

 

[Lastlaff]

Ahh, remember the hod well when I started on the shovel - I remember when loading it up and lifting it up onto the shoulder ( that takes skill & balance on its own), then when you headed to the ladder you kind of ran up the ladder with the motion of the hod. The brickies labourer has it easy with their little hod.

 

[JessThePlasterer]

It's what a plasterer would use to carry S&C either up stairs or ladder. It would have weighed about 55kg fully loaded.
Fancy a go?

That’s a little bit forward Andrew but I’d give the hod a go!

.. I might even lift it a couple of steps through sheer bloody mindedness. That sounds f**k**g awful! I’ve tried to shoulder two bags of plaster for the f**k of it and looked a right clown

 

[Danny]

I've still got my hod at home.View attachment 33393

you are almost as tall as that

 

[essexandy]

you are almost as tall as that

I used to have a little wheel on the end of the staff to make it easier.

 

[Butty]

Great pictures. Where did you find that

 

[bobski]

The plasterer on the right I’m sure that’s a Marshall town trowel in his hand

Could be.
I'm betting that pic is Americans though, what do you reckon?

They did have a few brands out back then though.

All look similar..

 

[Djr]

I used to have a little wheel on the end of the staff to make it easier.

Never lived in the world we was brought up in . These idiots think mixers have always been around

 

[Djr]

Tin bath and rake
Plunger as we call them
50 kg of bonding bags all day

 

[Vincey]

Great pictures. Where did you find that

Can’t remember tbh mate I’m a weirdo for just saving pictures, as @bobski says it is American picture I can remember that

 

[essexandy]

While we're on the subject of the good old days; I was chatting to my old man about prices the other week and he said that back in the sixties him and his two brothers had to do a pair of three bed semis a week to make a wage. That's float and set the walls, skim the ceilings and screed the floors.
A pair a week for a 2 and 1 gang.

 

[carys]

View attachment 33389

Andy g got two lab at long last

 

[Renov8j]

They look like proper rapist pedos!!

 

[Renov8j]

They look like proper rapist pedos!!