I did all kinds of crazy stuff like a little spontaneous rock-climbing without ropes when I was younger. If I was offered an opportunity walk high steel, see if I could hack it, I would have taken it. I'm a quarter redhaired Irish and think I have that crazy Celtic risk-enjoying serotonin receptor variant. Used to walk and climb the girders of an old abandoned railroad bridge for fun and relaxation. One time some idiot called cops, and they and firemen showed up. Cops didn't get it; firemen did: my kind of people.
Come to think of it, the Tobi workers who built Tokyo Tower also didn't use safety ropes. (In Japan, people who do construction work at high altitudes are called Tobi.) It certainly seems that firefighters and steeplejacks have special qualities that are clearly different from ordinary people.
I do all my own roofing. Getting old and so forth, will eventually have to hire a young Mexican (get it done right and cheap), but there's a certain satisfaction to getting up there and doing it myself. Americans have mostly gotten so useless that I'd hesitate to hire one, pay $15+/hr for them to do little, when they feellike showing up. Mexicans: muy trabajador, buena gente.
As I get older, my sense of balance at heights is less and less. While doing it yourself can be very satisfying, please be careful if you do it yourself.
Oh, I shouldn't be doing it at all. My sense of balance is dubious. I avoid the edges unless I'm kneeling or sitting. Next year, may have to give it up, hire that nice Mexican roofer I met in a supermarket parking lot. He saw me taking a picture of his pickup truck, which had something about Roofing and a phone #, and came over and with politeness that would be respected in Japan, offered me his card.
I love this photo tribute to working people.
The people who work on construction sites fascinate me.
I totally get it, it's hard work, but you can see the results.
You should check out the pics of Mohawk High Steel men, eating lunch on a girder 50 stories up.
I've seen it, and just looking at them makes my heart race.
I did all kinds of crazy stuff like a little spontaneous rock-climbing without ropes when I was younger. If I was offered an opportunity walk high steel, see if I could hack it, I would have taken it. I'm a quarter redhaired Irish and think I have that crazy Celtic risk-enjoying serotonin receptor variant. Used to walk and climb the girders of an old abandoned railroad bridge for fun and relaxation. One time some idiot called cops, and they and firemen showed up. Cops didn't get it; firemen did: my kind of people.
Come to think of it, the Tobi workers who built Tokyo Tower also didn't use safety ropes. (In Japan, people who do construction work at high altitudes are called Tobi.) It certainly seems that firefighters and steeplejacks have special qualities that are clearly different from ordinary people.
Maybe the Tobi are modern samurai
Personally, I could not stand on a roof for one second! God bless those who can.
I'm also afraid of heights now. I was fine with heights when I was a child, but as I got older, my fear grew.
I do all my own roofing. Getting old and so forth, will eventually have to hire a young Mexican (get it done right and cheap), but there's a certain satisfaction to getting up there and doing it myself. Americans have mostly gotten so useless that I'd hesitate to hire one, pay $15+/hr for them to do little, when they feellike showing up. Mexicans: muy trabajador, buena gente.
As I get older, my sense of balance at heights is less and less. While doing it yourself can be very satisfying, please be careful if you do it yourself.
Oh, I shouldn't be doing it at all. My sense of balance is dubious. I avoid the edges unless I'm kneeling or sitting. Next year, may have to give it up, hire that nice Mexican roofer I met in a supermarket parking lot. He saw me taking a picture of his pickup truck, which had something about Roofing and a phone #, and came over and with politeness that would be respected in Japan, offered me his card.
Ninjas at work. 😁🙏🏽
They really are like ninjas!