There tied off for the most part safe from falling I wouldn't be opposed to the work I weld them I beams all day long as it is if it wast for traveling alot I probably would be on a erection crew

It's a lot more fun doing it after a 2 day drunk.

My dad was local 3 Pittsburgh, old school. I chose logging over that chit.

to you guyys that say ya have or would....I tip my hat to ya!!! I couldn't even watch the whole video.

Heights have scared me most of my life. Ladders I despise.

Had a fella teach me rappelling when I was a teen. Being tied off I could go off any cliff we could find. I really enjoyed it in fact. Same as climbing trees, as long as I am tied off I am fine.

My youngest son has built grain bridges over the Miss. river and done a lot of high work as a welder. Has also done some of the windmill work as high as 300'. He will ride any lift, walk the beams and work. Put him on a roof and he scared to move for a few minutes. Once he gets his balance he is fine.

My problem would be dropping things or needing to use the bathroom that high up. Lol
I think I would be fine as long I was tied off.

I was watching Mega Builders recently these foreign (asian) workers wouldn't tie off even on the top of a bridge they were constructing in Dubai. They were climbing all over like it was nothing.

Never, hard fro me to watch it.

If that's where the coyotes lived....
Put me in coach.
I'm ready to play!

I could get used to it. But I'm not sur I'd be too happy about how they'd have that piece of I-beam rigged up.

Had a chance to be a timberman in the mine years ago in the younger days.
Didnt care to work underground nor the thought of hanging inside a 4000 ft shaft changing out and spiking in new timbers.

I hate heights. Im a pipe layer by trade. Waterline, sewer and storm drain. If anything I spend more time beneath the ground than above it. Im more comfortable being beneath the surface than way above it.

If they work by the book there tied off basically at all times there more likely to get smashed or pinched setting them beams than falling

No it wouldn't be for me either. Glad there are people that do enjoy that type of work. If following their safety protocol it is a safe job but if you take a short cut your time maybe numbered.
All jobs are dangerous if safety isn't involved.

I never worked steel but have climbed 1000's of wood structures to the heights of 80' and everything in between.

Not me

I routinely work thirty to fifty feet up on scaffolding. That's not nearly as high as those high-steel workers in the video but plenty high enough to kill you. They would just have a lot longer to think about how badly they screwed up on the way down.

Another difference is that they are tied off at almost all times. I never am.

My ground guy:



Just finished renailing all the wood siding:

What kind of money do you think those guys are making? I have no idea.

Not me!

It depends on where and what but in the ~40$ to 50$ per hour range.

That freaks me out. I am not even comfortable in a tree stand or on my roof.

No Way