Vintage work crew photos

[Frank S]

Don't you just love the safety protocols 1 guy looks to be hanging onto and standing on bolts another is painting while on only walk planks no railings cables or any other form of barrier in the event of a miss step, too many things to mention that no one would even consider working in those conditions in today's world

[hemmjo]

Don't you just love the safety protocols 1 guy looks to be hanging onto and standing on bolts another is painting while on only walk planks no railings cables or any other form of barrier in the event of a miss step, too many things to mention that no one would even consider working in those conditions in today's world

Not here in the USA. I do not know about other developed countries. I have seen way more dangerous work sites in both Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Jon has posted a few photos showing dangerous work sites. That one of the concrete deck collapse comes to mind right off.

Something that caught my eye is the length of the painters poles, the small size of paint cans, and how close the cans are to the painters. Makes me wish it was a video.

LOTS going on in that photo!!

[Rikk]

Looking at the gent who is dressed better than the others, left side, middle. I wonder if he is possibly the Captain of the ship?

[Toolmaker51]

Looking at the gent who is dressed better than the others, left side, middle. I wonder if he is possibly the Captain of the ship?

Possibly, though more likely the First Bos'n, or Engineering Officer.
Like Scotty on Star Trek, without all the frenzied "...but Captain...!"

[Rikk]

Possibly, though more likely the First Bos'n, or Engineering Officer.
Like Scotty on Star Trek, without all the frenzied "...but Captain...!"

That does make more sense. I've never spent time aboard anything other than my 14' fishing "yacht", so I have to admit my ignorance when it comes to the chain of command. I was kind of thinking Engineering of some sort, but could't come up with a title that made sense in my head.

[Frank S]

A good 1st Bos'n / engineering officer/ Senior engineer will quickly calculate in their head that a task will take 12 hours, tell the Cpt./ Boss 24 hours till up and running.
Boss will say you've got 18 then deliver in 15, Is thought of as a hero gets kudos uses them to get time off for the workers. Next time the workers will try even harder to get it done and get it right the 1st time. Morale is good.
The problem with that is the next time Boss begins to expect miracles, workers will forego proper safeties injuries happen task takes longer boss gets mad engineer gets chewed out this spills over to workers morale goes down

[Frank S]

Probably has little to do with anything we think.
by building the trolleys as low as possible the CG of the sacks are lower for transporting.
also having them so low that the bags have to drop from the fill chute this utilizes gravity to settle the grain or product inside insuring there would be enough head space to lace up the sacks.
the old bulk feed store in a town near to where I grew up would fill the gunny sacks then a guy would lift them and bounce them hard against the floor before sewing them up. Other wise if he didn't there would not be enough head space in the 100 lb sacks of grain to sew them.
The peanut thrashing machine we used to use from the coop had a sacking feature on it the plate the sacks rested on while being filled had a rotating cam under it to cause the plate to slap the bottom of the sacks this knocked dust out of them as well as settling the peanuts. The newer thrasher the peanut dryer coop provided just used a chute to blow them in bulk to a container then we would shovel a few sacks full to keep. Pretty sure we made less money selling bulk than by the sack but a lot less work.

[bruce.desertrat]

Don't you just love the safety protocols 1 guy looks to be hanging onto and standing on bolts

Worse...I don't think those are bolts...I'm pretty sure those are rivets. Domed head and all...

[mansworld]

Don't you just love the safety protocols 1 guy looks to be hanging onto and standing on bolts another is painting while on only walk planks no railings cables or any other form of barrier in the event of a miss step, too many things to mention that no one would even consider working in those conditions in today's world

Soldiers were dying by the thousands everyday just to capture a trench, a mountain, or a foothold on a beach! The capture of Monte Cassino Monastery in Italy resulted in 55,000 Allied casualties killed and wounded. The German losses estimated at 20,000 killed and wounded!