My neighbor across the street is demolishing his house and I asked him if I could have the bricks from his chimney. He said yes, and his demolition crew piled the whole bricks on a couple pallets on my driveway. They were not cleaned, only separated. I'm cleaning them.
What labor intensive work.
The left pallet represents about six hours of intermittent work as I figured out the best combination of tools to remove the mortar. I've settled on a hatchet. I went through hammer, chisel, power chisel and my favorite pair of gardening gloves in the course of cleaning 54 bricks. I have got to find a way to increase my output.
Note to self: don't forget the ibuprofen with breakfast.
