1980s Skyscraper builders video

[JOEPRO]

Seen this short:

Pretty impressive how he can climb around the steel frame. H&S nightmare though not even hooked on - crazy stuff one slip and it's a half day out with the undertaker.

Holding into a steel girder with welding gloves on is pretty insane!

 

[droopsnoot]

I couldn't watch it to the end, ever since my parachuting escapades I have never been the same about heights.

I watched a great video about taking photos from the top of that big hotel in Dubai. The chap climbed up to the top of the tower on progressively smaller and smaller stairs, then a ladder, up in to the top. Then proceeded to strap himself to the tower and lean out over the edge. That was it for me.

This is it, in case anyone else wants to put themselves through it

 

[Gavlar]

My old dad was a steel erector back in the day. I have photos somewhere, taken in the 1950s whilst he was working in Canada, of him walking on a narrow steel beam, way up high, wearing what would have presumably been hobnail boots, . No safety gear. He used to say that you start working at 3', then work at 6', then 20', and after that it didn't make any difference as you would be dead anyway. He's 90 now so safe to say he never fell!

 

[Gritineye]

Wouldn't mind doing that, been up the BK, it is blimmin high, it sways a bit at the public viewing level which makes some people squeak a bit!

 

[Erie Fred]

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I saw an episode on 60 minutes IIRC that showed this tribe, they live on a reservation north of NYC and still
carry on the tradition.
"These “Skywalkers” have for generations traveled far and wide to work on the “high steel,” bringing back good wages to support their home communities such as Kahnawake, Six Nations Reserve and Akwesasne in northern New York State and southeastern Canada."