50,000 bricks in one season, never noticed until the count

I keep a tally of every brick I lay for my own records. Last Friday I added up the numbers from March through October and hit 50,280 exactly. That number shocked me because 5 years ago I was doing maybe 15,000 a year on small residential jobs. This season I worked on a big retail center outside Columbus and a church addition, so the volume just climbed. It made me realize my back and hands have been holding up way better than I expected at 44. Has anyone else ever tracked their yearly brick count and been surprised by the total? How do you pace yourself on those monster commercial runs?

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paige_craig2d ago

Wait, you actually kept a tally every single day for eight months straight? That kind of discipline is wilder than the 50,000 itself.