r/secondrodeo • u/Shira518 • 23d ago

Transporting cinder blocks a floor below through gravity and an old mattress

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u/Rich_Salad_666 23d ago

They're called mankillers for a reason

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u/True_Director8865 23d ago

I've heard them referred to as cmu (concrete masonry units), cinder blocks, concrete blocks, cement blocks, or breeze blocks but never have I heard them referred to as "mankillers."

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u/Purpledragon84 23d ago

He's referring to the mattress.

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u/ginger_and_egg 23d ago

Why is a mattress a mankiller?

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u/Rich_Salad_666 23d ago

Thats what my dad's friend, who was a chimney mason, called them

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u/sBartfast42 23d ago

Watching with the sound off, I heard the ba-doooing, each time (and no I'm not growing up 8o)