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Posted: 9/25/2011 1:55:58 AM EDT

Posted: 9/25/2011 1:58:32 AM EDT

[#1]

I just had a panic attack looking at that picture

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:01:50 AM EDT

[#2]

YES

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:04:53 AM EDT

[#3]

"And not a single fuck was given."

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:05:29 AM EDT

[#4]

"like a boss"

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:15:06 AM EDT

[#5]

Shoe tech back then was not so much, can you imagine running around on wet steel with leather soles?

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:16:47 AM EDT

[#6]

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:17:00 AM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
"like a boss"

/thread

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:28:42 AM EDT

[#8]

Watch OSHA track down the company and hit them with a retroactive fine plus late fees.

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:48:44 AM EDT

[#9]

My nuts just retracted into my body up to my shoulder blades.

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:52:00 AM EDT

[#10]

No fucking way in hell.

Fuck, that picture alone gives me the willies.

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:52:25 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
My nuts just retracted into my body up to my shoulder blades.

+1,000,000

Dude looks as comfortable as I am sitting in my easy chair.

Posted: 9/25/2011 2:59:38 AM EDT

[#12]

I sat in the door of helicopters for a couple of years, but for some reason... that bugs me.

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:08:21 AM EDT

[#13]

Balls.

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:09:01 AM EDT

[#14]

dang i get freaked on top of a bulldozer and thats only 15 ft

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:15:02 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
I sat in the door of helicopters for a couple of years, but for some reason... that bugs me.

I can relate. Being in a plane, even sitting in the doorway of a chopper with my feet dangling out doesn't bother me, but sitting on a plank on the side of a building..............................................ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:17:58 AM EDT

[#16]

Look at this douchebag:

Edwin H. Armstrong, inventor of FM radio, getting his antenna on.

Armstrong atop RCA’s 115-foot north tower, which stood on the roof of
the 21-story Aeolian Hall in midtown Manhattan. Armstrong sent copies of
the photos to David Sarnoff and his secretary, Marion MacInnis. Sarnoff
was furious and banned him from the building; MacInnis later married
him.

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:38:18 AM EDT

[#17]

Anyone notice he's sitting on boards...just fucking boards.

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:41:28 AM EDT

[#18]

HELL NO

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:43:31 AM EDT

[#19]

Who took the picture and what is HE on?

Not enough money in the world.

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:52:55 AM EDT

[#20]

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:55:12 AM EDT

[#21]

Liberals, labor unions, and government regulation is why you'll never see so many people with balls that big again. (doing day to day construction work that is)

Posted: 9/25/2011 3:58:09 AM EDT

[#22]

Both my grandfather and my father worked the high steel in NYC. My dad traveled 110 miles each way every day to go to work from PA to do it. Very hard work. He also found time to be Scoutmaster and raise his boys. That's a good man right there!
They built the Twin Towers, Empire State building, Verrazano narrows Bridge, Yankee Stadium (both) among other projects.

I went to work with him a few times to see if I wanted to become an apprentice. After watching what he did all day and how it was "up there", I decided to focus my attention to a little something more down to earth (environmental science

)

My dad has been retired 12 years now and I still get blown away by what he got paid towards the end of his career in NYC working on bridges at night. Big bucks!

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:00:21 AM EDT

[#23]

Thank god I was already shitting when I saw these pictures. I would have messed my chair up otherwise.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:05:34 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:
Who took the picture and what is HE on?

Not enough money in the world.

Yep, the photographer probably had to haul up a tripod for his 18 pound camera to get that picture.

Having a job selling cinnamon rolls or cellular phones at a kiosk in the mall just doesn't cut it for some of us, ironworkers ftw.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:07:43 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Who took the picture and what is HE on?

Not enough money in the world.

Yep, the photographer probably had to haul up a tripod for his 18 pound camera to get that picture.

Having a job selling cinnamon rolls or cellular phones at a kiosk in the mall just doesn't cut it for some of us, ironworkers ftw.

http://www.ptarmigannest.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ironworkers.jpg

http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/iron/images/p12.jpg

http://rafaelarguinzones.wikispaces.com/file/view/Rafaelarguinzones-ironworkers.jpg

http://amazingdata.com/mediadata47/Image/iron_worker_cool_funny_interesting_amazing_200907301824295120.jpg

http://pixdaus.com/pics/1264545160ywjCMst.jpg

http://www.posteremporium.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/6/464990_1.jpg

I watched a video about old time iron workers. One thing I remember was these three guys.

Guy 1: Working over a hot furnace heating bolts.

Guy 2. Standing on the end of the girder they were bolting together with a fishnet looking basket.

Guy 3: Hammering in these bolts with a sledge, not roped off, on the very edge of a skyscraper while the bolt was redhot.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:08:21 AM EDT

[#26]

Nope. Not me.

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Posted: 9/25/2011 4:11:30 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Who took the picture and what is HE on?

Not enough money in the world.

Yep, the photographer probably had to haul up a tripod for his 18 pound camera to get that picture.

Having a job selling cinnamon rolls or cellular phones at a kiosk in the mall just doesn't cut it for some of us, ironworkers ftw.
http://www.ptarmigannest.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/ironworkers.jpg
http://www.laborarts.org/exhibits/iron/images/p12.jpg
http://rafaelarguinzones.wikispaces.com/file/view/Rafaelarguinzones-ironworkers.jpg
http://amazingdata.com/mediadata47/Image/iron_worker_cool_funny_interesting_amazing_200907301824295120.jpg
http://pixdaus.com/pics/1264545160ywjCMst.jpg
http://www.posteremporium.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/4/6/464990_1.jpg

That last picture always cracked me up, that thing must have come down like a meteorite in the city.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:22:43 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
No fucking way in hell.

Fuck, that picture alone gives me the willies.

this. not only no, but FUCK NO!

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:31:41 AM EDT

[#29]

Just thinking about doing that makes me uncomfortable.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:39:49 AM EDT

[#30]

Quoted:

I sat in the door of helicopters for a couple of years, but for some reason... that bugs me.

Never sat in the door, but just looking at that bugs me more than riding over the mountain passes in the big fat target of a Chinook when I was over there. I flew a lot, probably 10-15 times over those passes and every time I waited to hear rounds from a dishka start punching through the floor. Never happened, but I would rather do that than go up on high steel.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:40:50 AM EDT

[#31]

This is a man (Philippe Petit), on a high wire he and some accomplices stretched between the twin towers in 1974. He spent something like 45 minutes on the wire with no net and no safety wire.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:45:57 AM EDT

[#32]

My son-in-law is an Iron Worker –– says the heights don't bother him.

Said SIL has seen pix of ol' Grumpy exiting "perfectly good airplanes", and gets queasy.

To each, his own.

BTW: You'd never get me up on that high steel.

Posted: 9/25/2011 4:58:46 AM EDT

[#33]

I worked for 20 years restoring and preserving motion pictures for the Library of Congress. One of the first series of films we restored for the
American Memory Project, the Library's online access to the collections, was a group of 'actualities' of the Westinghouse Works in 1904.

These 'actualities' were the forerunner of documentary films. The Westinghouse collection shows the casting and assembly of enormous
components for electric generators and other machinery. The fascinating and frightening thing about these clips is the work environment
of a large manufacturing plant a century ago.

In one clip, you'll see men standing next to a huge crucible of molten steel being poured, with no protective clothing, just shirtsleeves and
maybe a bowler hat. In another, men cast iron into sand molds on the floor, and several of them are barefoot. In still another, an overhead
crane moves a multi-ton casting dangling by a single chain, while assemblers work nonchalantly directly below.

We had an OSHA inspector come into our lab while we were restoring these films, and I showed her a few. I thought she was going to wet
her pants when she saw the conditions in which these men worked. It really is amazing that more people weren't killed or horribly injured
than actually were. Big balls, indeed...

American Memory - The Westinghouse Works Collection