This won't decide that it has made enough money by Thursday, or needs £350/ day to go to work.

I won't publish the video that came through on Facebook as I don't trust them but here is a still.

It probably isn't that easy. Hard running surface, mortar is prelaid, refilling, pointing.

They can have my jobs.

I still find it odd that we make some buildings out of relatively (to the whole) small pieces. I suspect much of that is because they have to me manually handled, but those days are gone, we have machines now and have had good ones for over 200 years.

https://youtu.be/a3agwmbuZKM?t=59

The videos are fake. Even if you could get a machine to lay bricks, what about wall ties, openings, insulation, cutting, scaffold poles?

27 minutes ago, Mr Punter said:

The videos are fake. Even if you could get a machine to lay bricks, what about wall ties, openings, insulation, cutting, scaffold poles?

None of which are used by the guys in the background wearing flip flops on site.....

57 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

I still find it odd that we make some buildings out of relatively (to the whole) small pieces. I suspect much of that is because they have to me manually handled

I was sitting in a bar last week enjoying my pint looking at the huge stone blocks that made up the wall, the largest being the fireplace lintel. Those were most certainly not manhandled into place.

Well given the age of the building, I guess these were.

Northern Spain and no visible mortar. If you drive round enough, you'll find new buildings being constructed with the same type of block. No idea how the manouver such large blocks these days.