Vintage work crew photos

[skibo]

Like I have said several times, "check out the hats that everyone is wearing and not a hard hat in the house!

[old_toolmaker]

I agree totally!

[jackhoying]

I looks like they are starting to disassemble a temporary rail track that was used to move in, or move out a big casting that needs replaced or repaired. The track base is built up with wooden sleepers and then I-beam sleepers, probably to raise the tracks high enough to clear existing tracks?

[marksbug]

perhaps those are custom hard hats..that look like reg hats...like the bronze dipped shews..or the osha guy dosent come till saturday.

[Jon]

Pig bed workers at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.

Pig bed made up ready to receive molten iron. Molten iron from the main runner flows at right angles into a smaller trough known was the ‘sow.’ From the ‘sow’ the molten iron flows into the individual molds known as ‘Pigs.’ Hence, the term: ‘Pig Iron.’

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[hemmjo]

Those 5 men standing there in short sleeved shirts, regular shoes and no hard hats are the kind of "IRON" men than built this country. (Insert any country name there)

[12bolts]

The writing above the furnace hearth door. "Pirigo"sp (Danger?) "Lentida" sp (Slow?) from Portuguese. Pretty obscure for a warning sign

[marksbug]

hmm...so...if they were pouring some bell shaped stuff they would be pouring cowbells!!!

[Jon]

Workers making a 70-ton waterwheel shaft. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Homestead, PA. 1945.

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[marksbug]

heck just watching them make the steel for that would be awesome. it's truly amazing what we used to be abler to make before we had the 9002iso&whatnot bs qc came about.witch is like the carfox...used for selling nothing more.