I've worked on a high-rise building before with modern tools and a fraction of the size of the Empire State Building. I honestly don't know how they could've built that in 13 months 90 years ago. It blows my mind.
It's amazing what these men accomplish with such rudimentary technology.. With all the chaos NYC represents, you still find something unique and special like no other city in America
Bob Klein well.. doubt all you want ... it still happens to this day... trust me I know I was in this trade...and just look at the famous picture of the Ironworkers having lunch on the beam... one has a liquor bottle in his hand loll... and I’m not saying they are piss drunk... just “tuned up” as we like to say
Totally correct, what SOME people are capable of, now days they want welfare, food stamps, etccccc. 1 inch over the border, get it then on it until they die.
Not a hard hat or harness in sight, it made my hands sweat just watching, just seeing that guy sitting on the corner of a girder, with the Chrysler building below him, looking as calm and relaxed as if he was working under the hood of his car. I doubt I could ever get up there let alone work. Incredible men.
Those guys had starving familys to feed, that's why they are up there. Make no mistake. And there was plenty of fat greedy fucks distributing investor money to immigrants so that they could have their symbol for the success of their empire. For the victor belongs the spoils ;). Sure, they look all happy and smiling on camera but i'm willing to bet almost none of them wanted to be up there.
Absolutely amazing feat of engineering and construction 👷 💯 % percent respect to all iron workers, a special breed apart in. Regards brothers Shaun 🇬🇧👍
I'm a 3rd Generation Union Ironworker local 378 Oakland. This is my Grandfather's generation they were great . They passed down everything that they knew to me and all the Ironworkers after them ...,.that's what we do. People say that we're Brave.. I don't think we're Brave at all because the definition of being brave is being scared of something but you go ahead and do it anyway... we are NOT scared being up in the air like ,it doesn't matter how many stories we are in the air ...6,10 ,24 or 100 stories... makes no difference to me. It takes a certain breed to work iron for sure. We are the best in the world when it comes to building skyscrapers and bridges & we are all Brothers...a Brotherhood of Union Ironworkers from all over the United States and Canada.
yes, i too have a tremendous amount of respect for the hard working men that built our great cities and actually had a work ethic! They also were god fearing and had balls of steel! M.S.
People don't know what you mean when we say "God fearing" givin to them.. Meaning they really do have balls of steel. Seriously. They didn't go this job everyday first, without consulting the other side.
Pretty amazing that they built the Empire State Building in 13 months from groundbreaking to finish. Today they take 5+ years to widen one lousy mile of freeway. There is no substitute for competence. Our Grandfathers had it.
Amazing how relaxed they all are. The iron worker looks like he might be testing a bratwurst for doneness rather than forging rivets from molten metal 70 stories up.
We visited my father one summers day, who was working on the last rabbiting steel bridges in Boston. This was the steel arch bridge, crossing the Charles River not far from the Mass General Hospital. This was during 1954 or 55 Then the spring of 1962 I had my chance to walk high iron and slide down the outside columns. This was at the Prudential Building. Even got paid for my time. This is certainly a trade one must start early in life.
@9TheMajor macho men are not real men either just like transgendered and gay men...real men know they are real men and know what is the correct direction to go
I worked at Babcock a Wilcox plant ( fitter welder fabricator) a fitted 40 50 ft long I Beams to be installed at site. They closed in 83.my mother worked there too for years.those men were hanging steel that high up ECT like that !! IRON MEN.!!! Diffanetly. earned every penny. Bravo !
It was an incredible experience to go to the top of the Empire State..i would highly recommend everyone to make the trip if they can..you won't regret it..incredible building.
I'm a plumber constructing big buildings now and I can tell you over the two or three years it takes to put up a 24 floor building now days we make such good friends and the comradery is so strong it's a strange time at the end when we all just drift of.
We need to Praise their adventures .Thy were the real heroes.. Thanks to the historians and the department of archives for preserving such a memorable incidents..
Any chance any of these guys got to go into the building afterwards.... so not seeing any of the workers at the opening ceremony. Who are these people who opened it ? Where are the workers ?
respect the men who work as ironworkers a whole diffence breed of men with no fear.i was a steelworker making the iron&steel for just jobs and even tho i work on ground level our job was just as dangerous too!HAIL THE WORKER WHOOOHAAA
Respect for these guys! I (a boilermaker) spent many yrs building Water Towers as a young prick! I sometimes miss climbing 175ft to get to work! Lol I was in great shape then! No gym needed!
I've Built Tract Homes , worked on Commercial buildings. But these guys in the 1920s throwing red hot rivets on those High Rise steel frame Building's that's BALL- - SY !!
In the last sentences I would suggest that Nikolai Tesla the Creator alternating current every time you flip a switch in your house you think of Nikolai not Edison nor Hoover
I work for a construction company called Webco and its takes us 8 months just to renovate, we are pathetic! hope they don't see this comment and fire me.
I would advise deleting this comment. The possibility of you getting fired due to this comment outweighs any other benefit from it. Unless I am missing some crucial information.
US seemed like a fantastic country in thise days. Probably up to the end of the 80s. Doesnt seem to be that way now, altbough it may ne all the social media crap that makes it sound bad. I'm from Scotland and always fabcied going the the USA but not so sure now. Seems like a lot of greedy people have ruinex it!
Those were when men were men. No fear, just guts. Nowadays if you don't have your fucking PPE your fired. If your not tied off your fired. This is why jobs take so long. Bless those Ironworkers from the past. Respect from a member of Local 721 Ironworkers
I remember working on the Empire State Building one day as we were erecting it. I was 1000 feet up, I left my lunch pail out on a beam that was only two inches wide, well one of my fellow workers was a wise guy see, they dared me to hop out to the edge on one toe see
@@upupnaway5926 you sure would it would probably take a good hour and a half to pull it ou of the fuckin ground though if it didn't split someone in half lol
os trabalhadores arriscavam suas vidas nas alturas. Em me imagino fora desse prédio como deveria ser dificil trabalhar nas alturas sem tomar aquele tombo.
@5:47....so that's how they went down....pure strength and agility. Makes it look easy....but that ain't easy. I probably could do it at 17 to 19....but by 21 after lunch forget it.
Lo bueno de este rascacielos que fue hecho a mano y sin ninguna tecnología solo con unas cuantas grúas y unas cuantas manos de verdaderos hombres orgullosos de su país .....
Balls of steel to do that work.Of course there are people with no fear of heights,but still.....one wrong move and there's no harness to break your fall.....
@@stanleyhape8427 you can't be that clumsy to hurt yourself on stairs to claim injury these were just simple stairs he won't even let us do simple things
