Tall construction in the 1930s

[Woodchips2]

If you've got a head for heights this short video may interest you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmWIi_4Ep7I. Couldn't imagine what HSE would make of it these days.
Regards Keith

 

[That would work]

I wouldn't like to be on the ground either..... not when one of them drops a spanner :shock:

 

[treeturner123]

Hi

I may be wrong, but I seem to remember that:-

Most of the high workers were from a particular Native American tribe.

In the construction of the Empire State building, there were very few fatalities, possibly only 1 AND it was built in less then 1 year

I may have some incorrect info or as we now have to call it 'Fake News'!!

Phil

 

[flying haggis]

Mohawks of the Iroquois tribe. apparently they took to the high work like ducks take to water

 

[Trainee neophyte]

I was struck by how thin all the workers are. Different diet in the USA these days...

 

[Trevanion]

I was struck by how thin all the workers are. Different diet in the USA these days...

I watched a couple of videos the other day from the early 1920s interviewing old people in America, it's like they were a totally different people, even in their very elderly age they were very spritely and of sound mind.

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[flying haggis]

I was struck by how thin all the workers are. Different diet in the USA these days...

would require much bigger girders these days just to support the workers