You value the old timers for what they know, not what they do.
Prior to completion , being how there weren't working bathrooms for several floors people would pee in the shaft and the brass rails corroded. So they hung me in the shaft in a harness with an electric sander (IIRC it had what appeared to be a scotch green pad.)
I'd dangle from floor to floor polishing the rails.
Using more brain than brawn now. Good thing, I'm not getting any younger.
The real heroes of this country are the ones who risk death, being maimed and disabled, risking their lives daily building bridges, skyscrapers or simply climbing a ladder to paint a two story house on a daily basis.
Prior to completion , being how there weren't working bathrooms for several floors people would pee in the shaft and the brass rails corroded.
work smarter not harder
OMG! How did you draw that lucky straw??!
How true that is.. I have not worked on an interstate hwy, but have worked on busy thoroughfares doing street lighting, signal and whatnot. Always just one wrong step from being knocked into the next life. And that's not even taking into account some idiot not paying attention, or slowing down in the zones.. I frickin hate that!I'm certainly no "hero" by any stretch of the imagination but working inches away from speeding semi's (they're the worst offenders) separated only by traffic cones during a 12 hour overnight shift on a busy interstate highway can give you a different perspective on life to. That being said though I do respect the high steel workers as I get a case of the queasies just by looking at some of their pics online. I need both feet on the ground
Man just the words Prudhoe bay and attic ocean give me shivers.
I can dress pretty comfortable to a little under 0F. Once you hit double - digits I'm out
I imagine you're all but invisible to the back side of a loader.
You think he'd see the dump truck though.
Man just the words Prudhoe bay and attic ocean give me shivers.
I can dress pretty comfortable to a little under 0F. Once you hit double - digits I'm out
4 inches of clothes and 2 inches of dick is a problem when you use the satellite.
With my post I certainly wasn't alluding to just the high wire acts.I'm certainly no "hero" by any stretch of the imagination but working inches away from speeding semi's (they're the worst offenders) separated only by traffic cones during a 12 hour overnight shift on a busy interstate highway can give you a different perspective on life to. That being said though I do respect the high steel workers as I get a case of the queasies just by looking at some of their pics online. I need both feet on the ground
How true that is.. I have not worked on an interstate hwy, but have worked on busy thoroughfares doing street lighting, signal and whatnot. Always just one wrong step from being knocked into the next life. And that's not even taking into account some idiot not paying attention, or slowing down in the zones.. I frickin hate that!
When I was still driving trucks for a living I had a near miss in a gravel pit where a rock crusher was running and a Cat 988 loader was feeding it rocks, taking away the crushed material and loading it into our belly dump trucks. Some forman told me to park in a new place to get loaded and while I was waiting I got out of the truck to clean the taillights and check for flats. Well I never heard that 988 coming and I was cleaning the tail lights and then wham! He hit the push ram (stinger) on the back of the truck at full speed in reverse! Holy shit, ALL my lucky stars were out that day is all I can say. The loader weighs about 80K lbs and the truck empty about 30K and fortunately that push ram lined up perfectly with the counterweight on the loader or I would have been flattened into the back of the truck. As it was the truck was knocked some distance (with the brakes set!) and the loader went over the top of me, knocking me hard to the ground. I bit my tongue from the blow and had a wicked concussion, but the 6' diameter tire missed me completely by probably 18 inches or less or I would not be here. I never heard it coming, with a V12 screamin Jimmy generator running nearby I guess I couldn't.. All I remember was something hit the back of my head and I was on the ground looking up at an oil pan.
Anyway a full throttle ride in an ambulance and by the time I got to the hospital I knew I was okay, but shook up to this day from heavy equipment. Anyone speeding around people in a truck or other heavy equipment will catch a piece of my mind! I knew from that day I had to get a new line of work..