Just some Philly Iron Workers Climbing High

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I watched these guys “swing steel” at the company I work at near Philly (KOP, PA) around 15 years ago when they were building an addition. It’s amazing to watch them clamber up those beams like they are monkeys going up a tree. Those guys weren’t up in a high rise but still high up enough that a fall would end them and I don’t recall them being harnessed or tied off.

These guys deserve every penny they make!

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I've driven past this site on Arch Street lots of times. Never heard any reports of dropped tools or bolts. Or deaths.

Ever work with concrete? The basement floor I yanked out of my home averaged 2" thick, and I put back nearly 4" across compacted gravel. The "basement floor" of the new Comcast building is TEN FEET thick. Fourteen million pounds of concrete. In addition, naturally, to columns down to bedrock.

a career highlight for Andrew Blasetti, 32, Angela Heinze, also 32, Lou Ross, 26, and Stephen Kane, 25 ... the four engineers Thornton Tomasetti, one of the world's leading structural firms ... assigned to the tower's construction.

http://www.philly.com/philly/h...ers_on_the_rise.html

That was a great article. Thanks for posting that.

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Seriously makes me sick just watching the video. How anyone can get used to heights like that is crazy to me.

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They swing more brass than steel...

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Philly iron workers are a very notorious breed. I’ve known quite a few of them. Not guys you’d want to mess with. Google Dougherty phila ironworkers his story is crazy

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Originally posted by Scoutmaster:....That is something I would like to say I have done, like climbing the face of Half Dome or El Cap. But I would never really do it.

Okay, I have to tell you this story. When I was a young apprentice in the shipyard, I got tasked with stringin electrical cable across the inside of a large hangar building. It involved climbing up and down a ladder. I got partnered with a guy just coming off "medical leave" for about a year. I have that in quotes if you know what I mean and what kind of person we're talking about.

I was supposed to do the work and he was just there to spot me. way before the half way point, he said, "Dang, let me do it." I was going so slow up and down the rickety ladder for him.

I climbed Half Dome in Yosemite, was laying down, peering over the face, looking straight down about 5,000 feet, was quite cautious, almost queasy. A climber who had just come up the face chided me a bit, stood with the toes of his climbing shoes over the edge, commented "if you can't do this, you will never be a serious climber". I told him I was quite happy where I was as I crawled backwards.

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I wonder how these guys feel about Unions?

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I wonder how these guys feel about Unions?

They’re Local 401...but What’s that have to do with anything?

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I can't even watch it. Much respect to them. I think this is what robots are for....

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Originally posted by Ironworker:
I wonder how these guys feel about Unions?

They’re Local 401...but What’s that have to do with anything?

I am a retired Union ironworker. I used to do that kind of work, when I was much younger. The reason I asked about it is because almost any time Unions come up on this forum, I here about how worthless and lazy Union workers are. I thought since we had a positive portrayal of Union Workers, I would mention it.

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Originally posted by Ironworker:
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Originally posted by RAMIUS:
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Originally posted by Ironworker:
I wonder how these guys feel about Unions?

They’re Local 401...but What’s that have to do with anything?

I am a retired Union ironworker. I used to do that kind of work, when I was much younger. The reason I asked about it is because almost any time Unions come up on this forum, I here about how worthless and lazy Union workers are. I thought since we had a positive portrayal of Union Workers, I would mention it.

I gotcha. Let’s just all enjoy their badassness.

Just for the record, I’ve never met a worthless or lazy union guy.

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I would be more scared being the guy one story down standing under the beam that the crane is moving into place. It seems like there should be more than one line holding the beam.

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I couldn't do it even if I had a parachute.

My grandfather worked on the exteriors of buildings in the 50's and 60's in Hong Kong when they still used bamboo. He said many fell to their deaths.

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I am a retired Ironworker. Local 8, Milwaukee Wi. 37 years of service..

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... and to think it wasn't too awful long ago that those guys did that without harnesses and safety lines.

I've climbed a 100' aerial ladder, and spent quite a bit of time in my old department's 85' ladder tower. That's high enough.

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I am a retired Ironworker. Local 8, Milwaukee Wi. 37 years of service..

That’s awesome.

To the two iron workers in this thread. How did you guys choose to pick this Trade over being a plumber/Carpenter/fitter/welder/glaser etc?

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My Dad was an Ironworker and I followed in his footsteps. It is a tough way to make a living but it is rewarding to see what you accomplished. The money is/was good and the benefits were great. It is way different now than when I started in '73. There was no OSHA back then.. Nobody cared if you were tied off or not. Not that it's a bad thing, but some of their restrictions are over the top!

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I saw an ad the Union put in the newspaper. There were 50 people in my apprenticeship class. I think about 20 made it thru the program and became Journeyman.

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