If only they already had bucket technology..... prolly stolen by a walrus...

walrus' can be sneaky creatures.

Obviously they haven't seen the worker safety video.

Ya, but look at all the splatter up the wall...

WOW!

That is not comedy, that is *badassery!

Interesting and all, but that's back breaking stuff right there. I can't imagine how this was decided upon to be the best way to do the work. I mean a cheaper and much more effective way is two or three buckets, scoop it right out of the wheelbarrow after the cement is mixed, hand it up to the guy, hand down empty bucket, repeat.

Im thinking this is the art of looking like your doing your best, but keep the job moving along slowly. One bucket would be 4-5 shovel fulls in that shovel easy...so the guy would have to mix more often and the guys up top would have to lift more and set more bricks/blocks or whatever they are doing before they have to get another bucket full.

few things come to mind:

a) hardhats are underrated in some countries.
b) from the wall splatters, that method is messy as hell
c) bupa needs a new getout clause for spine related claims
d) buckets ! - even slap together a wooden square bucket would be better.

buckets, wheels, pulleys... thats nerd talk.

Real men struggle, and complain.

Sure, a bucket on a rope would be more efficient but it would also be more boring! I would wager that, to these men, the process is more important than the result which is why they have chosen this method. The splatter can be cleaned up afterwards. After all, there are plenty of fun things that leave a splatter...

As long as they are wasting time on their own property/dime. If I were paying people to make that mess and work even slower doing it.......I really wouldn't care how much fun they were having.

This video is pretty old.. but never ceases to amaze me. It is another great example of how skilled laborers who are stuck doing such simple jobs in 3rd world countries master it at a level rarly seen by us Americans.

*africa

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