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**jeffahart** · 07-06-2018, 07:05 PM

Those are great pics. I used to work for Swinerton & Walberg. I worked on a few steel towers, from ground break to top off. It was quite an adventure as a young man. More so than the Army... for me anyway. That's when the iron workers used to climb around like acrobats. My understanding is everyone's on a safety hookup now. I was on the 4th and Hope project in Los Angeles in 1981 when the crane toppled and yanked the construction trailers, used as offices, into the hole 100' down. What a mess! I watched a few people get killed on those jobs. After that crane accident, we cut up all the cable and sold a truck load every night for a couple weeks for beer money until the cable was all hauled off. Tuff hard working men!

Stay safe.

07-06-2018, 07:05 PM	#27
jeffahart Senior Member Join Date: May 2012 Location: Scottsdale, AZ Posts: 1,883	Re: First time for me ,,but tall ladder climbing is over Those are great pics. I used to work for Swinerton & Walberg. I worked on a few steel towers, from ground break to top off. It was quite an adventure as a young man. More so than the Army... for me anyway. That's when the iron workers used to climb around like acrobats. My understanding is everyone's on a safety hookup now. I was on the 4th and Hope project in Los Angeles in 1981 when the crane toppled and yanked the construction trailers, used as offices, into the hole 100' down. What a mess! I watched a few people get killed on those jobs. After that crane accident, we cut up all the cable and sold a truck load every night for a couple weeks for beer money until the cable was all hauled off. Tuff hard working men! Stay safe. Attached Images __________________ White K20