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7/ Congrats. Now you've got one rock. You need about 400 more to build this small building. ...but don't start building yet! You've gotta dig down a foot or so into the ground to reach compacted earth for your foundation. You're going to need a pick AND a shovel.
8/ Pick and shovel work isn't rocket science ... but there is a bit of technique to it. Remember to slide your top hand down the pick as you swing. Don't bend over too far. Alternate sides and hands every 20 or so swings.
9/ The pick never needs to be sharpened, but the shovel does. Make sure to bring a hand file with you, and maybe a file card to keep it clean.
10/ Now, after several weeks of work, you have excavated a trench and built up a supply of square edged rocks. Now we get to layout and string work. You think stacking a vertical wall is a no-brainer that anyone can do? No, masons are not idiots; they have techniques.
11/ I spent a week working alongside a professional mason, repairing a stone foundation of a house in Bridgeport CT [ spring break in college, volunteering for Habitat for Humanity ]. It's hard work, and not unskilled.
12/ anyway, I could go on, but you get the point: ONCE AGAIN, Wrath of Gnon doesn't know what he's talking about ONCE AGAIN, Wrath of Gnon has absolutely no idea in the labor or skill involved in stuff that he says is easy
13/ FWIW, I'd be amazed if Gnon has ever built shit in his life. He doesn't talk like a guy who knows a hawk from a handsaw.https://twitter.com/upstatefederlst/status/1440421103319465986 …
14/ LOL, MY DUDE! I spent a few minutes, while writing this thread, searching for "little house star drill rock scene video", without success. TY ! https://twitter.com/ActiveOgre/status/1440421993786974211 …
15/ > a hawk from a handsaw referencing Hamlet, of course > "I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw." hawk = a mason's platter of mortar handsaw = handsaw also pun bc wind / bird hawk / tool hawk
16/ No, I don't think so. >>>https://twitter.com/mr_archenemy/status/1440423240531263497 …
17/ he explicitly says "the stone is free" because he thinks that you can just pick up squared off quarry stone out of the dirt because he knows absolutely nothinghttps://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1440337777187442697 …
18/ oh, I know that picks wear! I'm just arguing that a dull point is acceptablehttps://twitter.com/tigerboy74u/status/1440423735538827270 …
19/
Great book!
Also, as I mentioned at @based_con
over the weekend: the title of that book was inspiration, via a bit of wordplay, for the title of my first novel.https://twitter.com/EricMertz_KC/status/1440424931372646403 …
20/ also, since we're point out how WoG doesn't know crap about crap: you can't use lime alone to hold stones together. Among other reasons, a mortar of lime + water will be too soft and will squish out under the weight of courses of stone. Need sand.https://twitter.com/undrbedMonster/status/1440425325708525572 …
21/ others are pointing out how tiles aren't free, even if you make them yourselfhttps://twitter.com/cyr_actual/status/1440425020426113024 …
22/
Also, as I read this thread on pick and shovel work, I'm reminded of the time a few years back when Patrick of P_pehat was trying to subtweet me and used the phrase "soft handed nazi".
I guess he reflected for a moment and then deleted the tweet. 
23/ yeah, I'm sorta tempted to offer him a $10k challenge to build a coop that looks like that, in less than 2 weeks ...but he wouldn't even try, so why bother?https://twitter.com/coinaday1/status/1440427661306646533 …
24/
oh, yes, that's right @Based_Jedi is actually DOING this
I've been following his thread for MONTHS as he constructs a small buildinghttps://twitter.com/Based_Jedi/status/1440429618494722064 …
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