First time for me ,,but tall ladder climbing is over

[dieseldawg142]

if you don't mind heights, it's not a bad job


you do get some retarded stuff from these architects now a days...i would like to meet the guy who decided it would be good to put this 4 foot long by 22 inch wide "roof" at the 25 floor....i had to "rappel" down to it with my safety line from the 30th floor....stupid thing was so small i could barely change my mind let alone turn around on it....

[jeffahart]

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.

[davischevy]

Makes me glad we dig ditches and level spots to build on for a living.

[Fred T]

Iron workers from NYC were the silent heroes of the Oklahoma City bombing.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by GOPAPA

Any of you going through the golden years with second thoughts of doing what you used to do,,like climbing ladders ?

Back on to your original question, I'd answer yes. I'm not in my golden years yet, but my working career's been a long hard ride for sure. I'm still climbing and carrying but am to the point of trying to not carry as much weight as I used to. I come home hurting from all sorts of things I do. Pretty much have learned to live with it, but when I go a while on lighter work it sure feels great!

I find myself lately wondering if my siding days are over. Just finished a complete re-side insurance job on Friday. This guy had extensive landscaping/shrubs/trees all over, no grass at all, and it would have been crazy for me to have done it alone like I usually have worked since '05. I still have the muscle to throw a 30' walkboard up on my shoulder and carry it around the house, but I feel like it's bad for the bones and joints now. I look at that scaffold when it's home on the rack and wonder when they day will come I sell it off because I don't want to use it again. Feel that way now, but that's what I do, just not every day now. If the phone rings I'm taking the job.

[67ChevyRedneck]

I'm nowhere near my golden years and I won't do a lot of stupid things I used to.

...and you learn as you go.

This was only 15' of scaffolding... after I got that side completed I said hell no to anymore of the house being done off scaffolding.



So I got this big toy from a friend:



The left side of my house is +/-38' from ground to roof peak:



I'm almost done, this pic is from a couple months ago. The siding is all up. All I have left now is to redo the soffit and tin (garage is done and most of house is down as of last night) and install the shutters.