Brick hod

Ein Hod or brick hod is used in the UK and Ireland transportation tool in construction. It consists of a long handle, which is placed over the shoulder and on which a kind of wooden box is attached. This consists of two interconnected side walls and a bottom. It is used for transporting bricks and other construction materials, especially plaster. A hod is long enough to accommodate 4 bricks. If the bricks are piled up, however, so that they overlap each other and hold the capacity is limited more by the power of the worker and the size of the load. Normally 10-12 bricks can be worn.

" Hod carrying " is an unskilled job in construction. The " hod carrier" or " hoddie " is commonly employed by masons as an auxiliary force. Normally, a carrier operated two masons. The tasks include the waters of the mortar boards on the scaffolding and then the Up Wearing the bricks from the pallet and laying in 2 × 2 Brick big " stacks " that can then be easily passed by the moors. The hod carrier must co-ordinate deliveries of mortar and bricks to each other so that the Masons are continually supplied with material. If no ready-mixed mortar is used, the hod carrier must also mix the mortar. It can also cut brick and mortar joints and scrape new grout.

A mason laid about 1000 bricks per day, so that a hod carrier who operates two masons, per day must carry 2000 bricks. Experienced workers can serve three Maurer.

In the song Never Any Good Martin Simpson describes his father as "not steady enough for the office, not hard enough for the hod. " ("Too erratic for the office, not hard enough for the hod ").

The traditional Irish song Finnegans Wake describes the wake of the whiskey zugetanen hod carriers.

• Tool
• Construction
• The carrying case