Masonry Magazine November 1962 Page. 7
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If you're a mason contractor assigned to a commercial building or a high-rise, the question is how to get the thousands of masonry units from here (on the ground) to there (where the layer's working). And that doesn't end the problem. You've got to do it with economy and within your time schedule (you don't have a hundred years to complete a job as they did in the Middle Ages).
As a man aware of your problem, moving the masonry materials fast and efficiently, instinct tells you the job requires mechanization.
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High lift fork trucks are the answer to this problem. One mason contractor, for instance, found that a crew of 120 bricklayers was at work, serviced by laborers, including a mortar man, scaffold men, and four high lift fork trucks.
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Fork lift trucks perform a variety of job functions. With the high lift, mortar buckets are picked up and deposited on mason's scaffold. Brick, palletized and strapped, is taken from delivery truck to work trucks, and is either spotted alongside masons or stacked at central points. Mason contractors on the job have found that with this kind of mechanization, assembly-line masonry work goes smoothly, jobs are kept clear of obstructions and work moves faster with greater safety.
Long Haul
The long reach has accomplished with the high lifter shown here placing block in the fourth floor of a housing project.
MASONRY. November, 1962
Contractor uses a lift truck to hoist a pallet of bricks to a waiting workman at a project in Omaha. Although the ground is muddy, the vehicle has traction because the load bears down on the drive wheels.