Brick hod

However, by arranging the bricks in a chevron fashion, the number of bricks that may be carried is only limited to the weight the labourer can bear and the unwieldiness of that load.

[1][2] Hod carrying is a labouring occupation in the building industry.

A hoddie's duties might include wetting the mortar boards on the scaffolding, prior to fetching bricks from the delivery pallet using his hod and bringing them to 2x2 wide 'stacks' upon the scaffold that may then be easily laid by the bricklayers.

A bricklayer under ideal conditions can lay as many as 500 bricks a day;[3] if the hod carrier is serving a team of two then he must move 1,000 bricks although it is not uncommon for experienced hod carriers to serve three bricklayers.

The World Record for moving 500 bricks by hod is 12 minutes and was set by Daren Whitmore on 12 February 2011.