First and foremost, anyone remotely associated with Ironwork never calls it "walking the steel". It's "Iron" son, always has and always will be, "walking the iron"! R D local 25 Detroit (retired)
I’ve worked with a lot of them. Jam up hands for sure. Walter and Jesus, the two man bolt up crew. Connected with troy once or twice, damn good connector. Got a peak of the one and only jacob Jameson in there too. Did it everyday for ten years until I got hurt. Still gets me all excited seeing my brothers up there kicking ass and making it look easy. Glad to have worked with you men. Cheers, brothers!
I worked Iron in Texas in the late Seventies. We had two connectors Hambone and Alva Brown. Hambone looked like a pot belly pig, but he could climb a column like an orangutan and walk Iron like he was on the ground . Alva was a bull rider who got his eyeball socket kicked in by a bull and wore sunglasses to cover the scar. He was absolutely fearless. He'd walk on a loose 4" beam like he was on a sidewalk. Back then you didnt have harnesses and safety lines. You walked the Iron or climbed no safety lines . Hambone called all the shots everyone listened to him on the radio when hanging Iron this was heavy Iron on power plant construction. Very dangerous. You didnt go floor to floor like buildings with metal decking .This was all open beams all the way up . I would love to see the banter between the North and the South Ironworkers about who was better that would be great ! All good guys
30 years on ta Iron,started in 1980 injuries took me out in2005 worked outa LU 84 ,LU 433,ta joes in LU 377 got me in the end,worked all over the country LU 361 Brooklyn was the best local ta work outa.loved my trade,would not change it fer nutin.
Imagine thinking being an iron worker is hard work. All you do it literally turn wrenches . Maybe sometimes you do a little welding but all you do is put a puzzle together with instructions
Great video. I am a brand new first year apprentice, been working for two months now at la guardia airport New York and I’m very proud of myself and I am grateful for this opportunity I was given. Salute to my brothers and sisters in local 361 and every Ironworker out there.
I’m a glazier & I’m hoping over to the Ironworkers, I still haven’t got my sponsorship but what can I expect when I do as far as the work what tools etc.
As a Senior Structural Steel Estimator Bidding Projects for over 20 Years. I leave the office to the Jobsites to See this Great Sculptures made of Structural Steel Columns and Beams. Every Project is Different but always Salute those Brave Iron Workers. Experience my 1st 48th Level Tower.
No they won't, its an obvious candidate for automation. It's immoral to put humans at this level of risk and in the short time I have randomly watched my first video on this subject it freaks me out. All the other things that I find disturbing pale into insignificance. Ironworkers must be a completely different species. That having been said, they deserve enormous respect.
I wonder now with Biden AOC and all those Lowlife Idiots how much building there will be? Republicans ain’t saints but they only need 6 seats to take back the House and the gavel from that old sponge Nancy’s ancient hand~
@@trevorloughlin1492 obvious candidate sure but easily implemented and made into reality? So fucking far from it. I am a journeyman Ironworker and construction in general has so many variables applicable to each trade and on site revisions that need to be addressed that building a machine to complete a structure is many many years away. I'm not saying it won't happen, I believe it will, but with the boldness of your comment stemming from ignorance and a lack of understanding on the matter I can confidently say that my job is a long way off from automation. Also we accept the risk. We love the risk. That's why we do it. When I'm hanging iron like the guys you see in this video it's like the cleanest high you could ever imagine. You're working hard, building big and getting paid very well. Everyone is on the same page the camaraderie is top shelf👍🏼
I am about to join an Ironworkers union but they are asking me if I want to be a structural worker or reenforcing ironworker. Can someone please be so kind and tell me what's the difference and which one is better better? I really want to be doing what this guys in this video are doing.
Great video, I like the music, it shows how the workers have a passion for the work. Not every one could do that, I know I could not, ( don't like heights.)
First video I have ever commented on ever...these guys and girls who do this work are some serious bad asses. I was an ornamental sheet metal worker, but always wanted to do iron. Awesome video and workmanship!
I really do love seeing this. I am in my second year of being an IRONWORKER!!! I am a fabricator. I cut all those I-beams, weld the stiffener plates, brackets and fabricating. I was born to be a welder!!!! I hope it leads me to working on an oil rig offshore:)
im a ex connector from the 80s and early 90s where we didnt have to be tied off, thats right you heard me, no safety shit, where i got to run around around on the iron like a cat, racing against each other to unhook the choksr and give the ground man the hook, having fun on the iron !!!!! doing 150 pics a day the good old days, i wish we had go pros back then. be safe boys !!!
Yep, your not wrong there. I erected steel in the UK for 40yrs, couldn't wait to get to work in the morning. Then along came HSE, killed it on the spot.
Book #937635 My last job in 96 made me wear a harness. The Supers Safety man caught me everyday not tying off but they wouldn't run me off because they loved my work and I was keeping under the schedule usually by weeks, never late.
My cousin Addie, who is also a female IW did this for a living and she worked on the construction of the diamond back stadium and she also worked in LV. My hats off to her and all the IW's out there.
