Vintage work crew photos

[marksbug]

hmm Ive never been arrested in the fall.... just a few more belts of this licker and Ill be able to harness the power to fly!!!!if I dont get arrested first. come to think of it I could use a rest about now..

[neilbourjaily]

This is what the kids in the dangerous playground equipment video grow up to do, which by the way looked like a chuck lot of fun..

[cmarlow]

This is what the kids in the dangerous playground equipment video grow up to do, which by the way looked like a chuck lot of fun..

It is that thin line between complete confidence and screaming terror. It takes a special kind of person to do that kind of work. They are not extremely common.

[Moby Duck]

He appears to have a safety rope tied off with a giant knot to a scaffold pole to the left of centre in the picture. Rope crosses the planks and disappears behind his right ankle before re-appearing again secured to his belt in the centre of his lower back. Possibly a bit too much rope, but perhaps he plans to land on the edge of the horizontal plank below, and simply walk away.

[Jon]

Boiler shop workers. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1910.

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[Toolmaker51]

Post 2305.....That form of jib crane is new to me; two horizontal beams and trolley rides between them.

[IntheGroove]

Looks like limited travel...

[Toolmaker51]

Construction workers dismantling a buckled improvised crane. Buffalo, NY. 1961.

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Can only speculate how that came to be, two operative terms show through. Improvised and buckled fit together more often than not.

[IntheGroove]

...and being Buffalo, it would be freezing cold...

[NeiljohnUK]

If he's lucky, that's why we have shock absorbing lanyards and auto descenders these days, even in a proper harness positional asphyxia and suspension trauma is a real danger, one my in-house 'rescue' team has had to train for at work.