Quote: nearly triple rate of bricklaying by positioning the feet, building scaffolds, and reducing movements from 18 per brick to 5

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Frank B. Gilbreth] developed the exact position which each of the feet of the bricklayer should occupy with relation to the wall, the mortar box, and the pile of bricks, and so made it unnecessary for him to take a step or two toward a pile of bricks and back again each time a brick is laid. [p. 78] He studied the best height for the mortar box and brick pile, and then designed a scaffold ... [p. 79] Mr. Gilbreth has reduced [the bricklayer's] movements from eighteen motions per brick to five, and even in one case to as low as two motions per brick.... [p. 81] With union bricklayers ..., he averaged ... 350 bricks per man per hour; whereas the average speed ... with the old methods was ... 120 bricks per man per hour.   Google-1   Google-2

Published before 1923

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