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07-06-2018, 06:36 PM | #26 |
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Re: First time for me ,,but tall ladder climbing is over
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.... |
07-06-2018, 07:05 PM | #27 |
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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!
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07-06-2018, 09:41 PM | #28 |
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Re: First time for me ,,but tall ladder climbing is over
Makes me glad we dig ditches and level spots to build on for a living.
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07-06-2018, 10:19 PM | #29 |
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Re: First time for me ,,but tall ladder climbing is over
Iron workers from NYC were the silent heroes of the Oklahoma City bombing.
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07-15-2018, 10:00 AM | #30 | |
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Re: First time for me ,,but tall ladder climbing is over
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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.
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07-16-2018, 08:56 AM | #31 |
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Re: First time for me ,,but tall ladder climbing is over
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.
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