Lunch
 

Supposed to be somewhere in Austria (according to one comment).

Just looking at this picture gives me shrinkage.

http://i37.tinypic.com/2z3xb3b.jpg

The ladies have fall arrest harnesses on. Not like the famous pictures from the 30's of Manhattan skyscraper builders.

OK, I think I'm ready to vomit just form looking at them.

This is one of those times I wish I was a man. After drinking all of that pop, I'd totally pee off the end of that girder...

:lol: But I'd skip the "shake."

These are fun

Any stats on fatalities from falls from those days, I wonder?

Did you say "stats" or "splats" from falls in those days?

The original Flat Stanley.

I just found the motherload of pictures. Won't post them all here. Just a teaser.

Those pics are giving me the jibblies, and I like heights

:vomit:

and why are those pics on an obviously foreign site?

I remember my brother nearly went into steel erecting. He stood there, aged 19, in the kitchen telling mum all about his intention to go for a job in that field...apparently a 'vacancy' had come up...let's just say somebody had dropped out, or off the job.

I googled trying to find some kind of info on fatalities from the old days of building skyscrapers, all I could find was a nod to the lack of safety devices. You can't tell me people weren't dropping off like The Happening.

I Googled too, and only found one item: that when they planned the Empire State Building, they "bugeted" one death per floor, and were happy when only a "handful" of people died building it instead of the hundred or so they expected.