I hope you're not afraid of heights

[SaltwaterServr]

I worked two summers my last year/s in high school as a "Mechanic's Helper" for Dover Elevator. I got to work on the last phases of The Hyatt Regency and Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas. The elevator motor lift room, sits on top of the tower's ball substructure. That's roughly 550'.

I loved it! I love heights and used to take my breakfast and coffee up to the highest, most open points of the structure I could get to and watch the sunrise.

Iron workers, are some HARDCORE mother truckers, but "hanging rails" to install a "Skipjack" in a 30 or 40 story elevator shaft, that's basically surrounded by raw steel girders, and little else, is an experience I'll remember forever!

Dad's company used to build gravel plants and concrete plants before selling off that portion of the business and focused strictly on oil field. The erection site crews were some tough some beeshes. They could pound down a half a truck of beer, be too drunk to fish, but could walk a straight line while threading a needle.

It's really amazing how for the first week you'll tear out every rear end of your work pants, but eventually get used to walking on 4" I beam like it's a mile wide. The most unnerving thing for any first time steel monkey is the fact when you look at your feet, there isn't anything to focus on underneath them.

I did always like sliding down the verticle beams with your gloves and boots. Takes 10 minutes to get to the top, but 30 seconds to get back down again, so long as OSHA isn't at the job site.

 

[Longboysfan]

I'll pass on that job.

 

[Joe Realist]

wow..

 

[rkell87]

Dad's company used to build gravel plants and concrete plants before selling off that portion of the business and focused strictly on oil field. The erection site crews were some tough some beeshes. They could pound down a half a truck of beer, be too drunk to fish, but could walk a straight line while threading a needle.

It's really amazing how for the first week you'll tear out every rear end of your work pants, but eventually get used to walking on 4" I beam like it's a mile wide. The most unnerving thing for any first time steel monkey is the fact when you look at your feet, there isn't anything to focus on underneath them.

I did always like sliding down the verticle beams with your gloves and boots. Takes 10 minutes to get to the top, but 30 seconds to get back down again, so long as OSHA isn't at the job site.

hehe....erection

 

[bbgun]

"Has anyone seen Charlie? He was here a minute ago."

http://img26.*************/img26/6098/article0026783b3000004b.jpg

 

[rynochop]

"Has anyone seen Charlie? He was here a minute ago."

http://img26.*************/img26/6098/article0026783b3000004b.jpg

Thats insane. I'm sure theres a floor a few feet below that pic, but still. I'd definitely have a panic attack.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Thats insane. I'm sure theres a floor a few feet below that pic, but still. I'd definitely have a panic attack.

I believe that is an actual pic from the construction of the Empire State Building.

I believe five people died during the construction.

 

[rynochop]

I believe that is an actual pic from the construction of the Empire State Building.

I believe five people died during the construction.

Oh, i dont doubt that. I just mean i'm sure theres a completed level below them a few feet down from that beam they're sitting on. Still, id be scared to death.

And only 5 people died?

 

[joseephuss]

I believe that is an actual pic from the construction of the Empire State Building.

I believe five people died during the construction.

http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/a/empirefacts.htm

How many people died while building the Empire State Building?
Though rumors of hundreds of people dying on the work site circulated during the time of its construction, official records state that only five workers were killed: one worker was struck by a truck; a second fell down an elevator shaft; a third was hit by a hoist; a fourth was in a blast area; and a fifth fell off a scaffold.

 

[joseephuss]

Oh, i dont doubt that. I just mean i'm sure theres a completed level below them a few feet down from that beam they're sitting on. Still, id be scared to death.

And only 5 people died?

There would not necessarily be a completed level directly below them. The closets completed level may be the next one down or several levels down from the beam they are sitting atop.

 

[bbgun]

I believe that is an actual pic from the construction of the Empire State Building.

I believe five people died during the construction.

And that was just during lunch.

 

[trickblue]

"Has anyone seen Charlie? He was here a minute ago."

http://img26.*************/img26/6098/article0026783b3000004b.jpg

That was by Charles Ebbets during the construction of the RCA building at Rockefeller Center. I have a print of that in my game room...

There was also a related picture that went along with it...

 

[YosemiteSam]

That was by Charles Ebbets during the construction of the RCA building at Rockefeller Center. I have a print of that in my game room...

There was also a related picture that went along with it...

I should have known that wasn't ESB just for the fact at how close Central Park is.