Why does nobody talk about hitting 10,000 bricks laid in a week

Just finished a job in Cleveland where I stacked 10,462 bricks in five days, and it snuck up on me how much that number actually means for planning lunch breaks and mortar mix, has anyone else counted their own weekly numbers and been surprised?

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aaron19727d ago

Buddy of mine tracked his count one week and hit 9,800, then spent the next month chasing that number and burned out by Wednesday every week. Nobody on his crew cared except the guy busting his hump over a number that meant nothing in the end.

drew_west20d ago

Count chasing is a fast track to hating your own job... your buddy learned the hard way that numbers don't build anything, they just break your body faster. I've seen guys hit 10k and leave sloppy mortar gaps all over the place, then the crew spends the afternoon patching their mess. Nobody on site cares about your count, they care about the wall not looking like a jigsaw puzzle. It's like running a race nobody else is in... you're just competing with yourself and losing.

the_river27d ago

nah man i gotta disagree here. counting bricks like that is just a weird flex honestly. if you're spending time tallying up your numbers instead of just getting the work done, you're probably missing something else on site. i've seen guys who obsess over their count and they always end up with sloppy joints or bad alignment cause they're rushing to hit some arbitrary number. plus nobody cares about your 10k bricks except you and maybe your foreman if he's trying to figure out your rate. the real pros just focus on doing good work and let the numbers fall where they may. bragging about a count just screams "i'm trying to prove something" and that's not a good look on a jobsite.