Kanika Sircar on wed 26 nov 08
It's a video shot in India, where I am from and where those scenes are
commonplace. I don't believe the bricks are larger. Perhaps the people are
smaller.
In relation to the benefits of joyful labour, a recent theme on clayart, you
should hear those guys chant and sing as they work.
Kanika
----- Original Message -----
From: "L. P. Skeen"
To:
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: OT Dude transports twenty bricks on his head.
Is it my imagination, or are those bricks larger than the ones we use here?
L
----- Original Message -----
From: Frank Gaydos
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:02 AM
Subject: OT Dude transports twenty bricks on his head.
This is wild. The guy could make more money in the circus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-iP1jSMlI&eurl=http://www.dvorak.org/blog/&feature=player_embedded
Frank Gaydos on wed 26 nov 08
This is wild. The guy could make more money in the circus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlV-iP1jSMlI&eurl=3Dhttp://www.dvorak.org=
/blog/&feature=3Dplayer_embedded
Logan Johnson on wed 26 nov 08
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--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Frank Gaydos wrote:
From: Frank Gaydos
Subject: OT Dude transports twenty bricks on his head.
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 9:02 PM
This is wild. The guy could make more money in the circus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlV-iP1jSMlI&eurl=3Dhttp://www.dvorak.org/b=
log/&feature=3Dplayer_embedded
=0A=0A=0A
gary navarre on wed 26 nov 08
Thanks, I just realized when my 86 year old land lord dies and his kids sell the house and 40 acres I'll have to move the kiln again. Now I know where I can get some good help. The most I can carry is 14 of our 9" standards with brick clamps at a bit over 100lbs. I'm guessing those are not high fired and though larger not as heavy. Our house bricks are about 4 1/2 lbs. so those folks are probably still doing over 100 lbs. That's not much of a big deal though, a lot of Americans carry a hundred pounds of fat all the time, it's just not on their heads. Eat less, drink cheep beer, practice hand labor and stay in there!
Gary Navarre
Navarre Pottery
Navarre Enterprises
Norway, Michigan, USA
http://www.youtube.com/GindaUP
http://public.fotki.com/GindaUP/
--- On Wed, 11/26/08, L. P. Skeen wrote:
> From: L. P. Skeen
> Subject: Re: OT Dude transports twenty bricks on his head.
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 8:23 AM
> Is it my imagination, or are those bricks larger than the
> ones we use here?
>
> L
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Frank Gaydos
> To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:02 AM
> Subject: OT Dude transports twenty bricks on his head.
>
>
> This is wild. The guy could make more money in the
> circus.
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV-iP1jSMlI&eurl=http://www.dvorak.org/blog/&feature=player_embedded
L. P. Skeen on wed 26 nov 08
Is it my imagination, or are those bricks larger than the ones we use =
here? =20
L
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Frank Gaydos=20
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG=20
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:02 AM
Subject: OT Dude transports twenty bricks on his head.
This is wild. The guy could make more money in the circus.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DlV-iP1jSMlI&eurl=3Dhttp://www.dvorak.org=
/blog/&feature=3Dplayer_embedded
pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET on fri 28 nov 08
Hi Kanika, all...
I expect that scene is identical to scenes of five thousand years ago or
more.
If transporting Bricks by small open Maritime Freighter, the random-set pile
as seen,
would be the most interlocking and stable and effecient for the space.
Square stacks, bound on pallets, would not be feasible anyway, for being
moved and handled by people...nor would laden pallets stack well in the
inside concave shape of a small Ship's Hull.
So what we are seeing, is the most efficient and sensible means and methods
for Bricks to be transported when in open Sloops or Freighters, without
Cranes, Forklifts, Trucks and so on.
I'm sure virtually identical scenes were common in North America in times
passed...including the manner of carrying off-loading on one's head.
Stevedores everywhere traditionally carried whatever could be carried, on
their Heads, just as anyone has or would, if they routinely carry very much.
Illustrations of scenes along the Mississippi and other inland Waterways of
Freight and Trade in the 19th Century and prior show as much.
It's greatly preferable to trying to carry the same things by the hands or
arms.
Barrels of course, were 'rolled'...
Very cool...
Phil
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Kanika Sircar"
> It's a video shot in India, where I am from and where those scenes are
> commonplace. I don't believe the bricks are larger. Perhaps the people are
> smaller.
>
> In relation to the benefits of joyful labour, a recent theme on clayart,
> you
> should hear those guys chant and sing as they work.
>
> Kanika
L. P. Skeen on sat 29 nov 08
Ah, but the larger question is, how did he get those things OFF his =
head, since the pile was higher than his arms are long? =20
L
----- Original Message -----=20
From: pdp1@EARTHLINK.NET=20
Stevedores everywhere traditionally carried whatever could be carried, =
on
their Heads, just as anyone has or would, if they routinely carry very =
much.
Steve Slatin on sat 29 nov 08
In Burma the carrier would go to wherever
s/he was unloading, and kneel while the
first layer or two was taken off by the
stacker. Then the carrier would stand and
they would complete the unload.
Steve Slatin --
--- On Sat, 11/29/08, L. P. Skeen wrote:
> Ah, but the larger question is, how did he get those things
> OFF his head, since the pile was higher than his arms are
> long?
>
> L
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