As a teenager growing up in a small town, I started my first job working as a laborer for a local mason. I rode my bike or hitched a ride to the shop before sunup every morning, where I would load up scaffolding, deck planks, and countless bags of mortar

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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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The Craft of Masonry

By Hazel Bradford
Director of Communications, International Masonry Institute
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Partnering with Practitioners

ONE OF THE MOST EFFICIENT ways to accomplish this ideal is for schools to partner with experts in the respective materials. Schools that take that approach quickly learn the value of such partnerships.

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Further Learning

"Laying the brick on a bed of mortar, leveling - all these events quickly and thoroughly immerse [students] in recognizing the need for a strong collaboration in creating design ideas."

Practitioners like IMI "make all

The ultimate low maintenance mortar/plaster mixer

Hydra Flow: Proven tough in years of rough on-the-job performance. Hydraulics have for dozens of years lightened many heavy tasks... dumping a truck bed, steering, even helping stop the truck, a

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Proven tough in years
of rough on-the-job
performance.

Hydraulics have for dozens of years lightened many heavy tasks... dumping a truck bed, st

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You could build an entire city out of masonry

Consider the unparalleled variety and beauty masonry materials can bring to your next building-brick, concrete block, glass block, granite, marble, sandstone, limestone, tile, terrazzo and plaster.

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