John Wilson
A Colonial brickmacker
A Little About Me!
Good marrow my name is John Wilson and I am a colonial Brick maker. I live in a house with one bedroom. I am 29 years old and my wife who is 30 years old. I am married to Catherine Wilson I have triplets that are 2 boys and 1 girl who get along with each other. My children are 2 years old. I live in a house with 1 room and an attic where my older children live there. The way that I get to work in the winter and I get to work in the summer spring and fall I go on my horse. The way I get to work in the winter I get my sled and my snow doges to pull me to work.
In my job we build lots of things like chimneys, fireplaces , brick houses and I make many more thing out of bricks I have lots of help from my helpers and some of my friends help me. The people that work with me are some of my friends work with me. I work for a brick making company that taught me how to make bricks. I provide a service by making houses and chimneys for people. I also provide goods by making and selling people the bricks in case they want to make things themselves.
I make bricks. There are some children between 10-16 that work in my shop. I make bricks and stones for making chimneys and stoves for cooking. I learned my job from working with a professional brick maker. My tools are masons mortar board, a brick masons jointer and a jumper stone drill those are my tools I use to make bricks.
SOME PICTURES OF ME AT WORK
SPREADING MORTAR
Here I am spreading mortar on the bricks.
BAKING AND COOLING BRICKS
This is where we bake and cool the bricks.
TOOLS
These are some of the tools I use.