Neanderpundit

Saturday 31 Jan 2009

Masonry Crapola

Re-tucking an 8′ wide, brick arch with a keystone today, 20′ up, from a ladder. Should be amusing.

on 31 Jan 2009 at 2:54 pm guy

My boss’s father made a tuckpointing gadget – a mortar hopper attached to a screw that pushed the mortar out of a tip. Load up the hopper, attach a cordless drill to the screw and start tucking.

Sort of like a mechanized pastry bag. Sped up the process a TON.
on 31 Jan 2009 at 11:23 pm Kurt P

So how’d it go?

GUY,
If it’s cost effective and workable there might be a market for it.
on 01 Feb 2009 at 6:07 am Aaron Neal

I hate ladders. Especially any that are taller than I am.
on 01 Feb 2009 at 11:19 am guy

Kurt – if you want to make ’em, knock yourself out. He didn’t patent it and he’s passed away now. Heh, and I’m not much of an entrepreneur.

If I remember correctly, just just used the screw from a sausage grinder.
on 01 Feb 2009 at 1:50 pm dick

I knocked it out in just under three hours, including the chipping out and replacement.
The new little Hitachi compressor did great.