Posted: 9/25/2011 1:55:58 AM EDT
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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. |
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.   |
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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! |
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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. 
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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 
Westinhouse Air Brake Company - Casting Scene 
Westinghouse Air Brake Company - Moulding Scene 
Tapping a Furnace, Westinghouse Works 
Steam Hammer, Westinghouse Works 
Casting a Guide Box, Westinghouse Works Much more at the first link... |
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LOL at the aflac duck staring at him like WTF?!?!?!!!!!! |
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That didn't take long. 
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