Motion Study
A Method for Increasing the Efficiency of the Workman
Forfatter: Frank B. Gilbreth
År: 1911
Forlag: D. Van Nostrand Company
Sted: New York
Sider: 116
UDK: 658.54 Gil Gl.
DOI: 10.48563/dtu-0000026
With an Introduction by Robert Thurston Kent Editor of "Industrial Engineering".
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MOTION STUDY
other hand. This is called the “pick-and-dip method.”
The size and shape of his mortar receptacle, the arrange-
ment of the brick and mortar on his scaffold, the shape
of the scaffold itself, the sequence in which he builds the
vertical tiers and the horizontal courses, and, finally, the
labor-union rules themselves, are fashioned after the con-
sequences of using a small trowel, just large enough to
pick up sufficient mortar for one brick only.
Fig. 9. — The usual method of providing the bricklayer
with material.
A bricklayer so trained finds it difficult at first to adapt
himself to the “string mortar” method of the West. The
western-taught bricklayer experiences the same difficulties
in adapting himself to the “pick-and-dip” method with
the speed of the eastern bricklayer. But their difficulties