But I couldn't do it. My youngest son and a SIL can do this, but not me. Being real honest how many of you could do this type work?

Nope!

Chris

Every male in my family at some time or another has hung steel. Nothing that high nor as a career mind you but enough to go look for other work.
My namesake uncle took a header from five stories up in Gary, IN a few months before I was born. I was named in his memory.

Wouldnt do it if I was 25

Made my living 35 years doing this. Nothing to it

Not I

maybe when i was young

I used to run floor joists

I would be installing electric in pole barns with a set of planks between the trusses and a ladder on top of them

3 sections up on the scaffolding we would leave the wheels unlocked and just roll down the barn.

not this fat child

Scared of heights. Not sure when it happened, I used be fine with it but scares the crap out of me now.

if that was the only jobs out there I would have homeless and begging on the streets

I got a wierd tingling in my willy watching that?

And I thought climbing for the phone company was bad, lol. I’m good on gaffs and in a climber up to 20-25ft, anything higher, they can get a bucket truck.

If I was younger I would. As a kid I always wanted to be a steeple Jack.

I don't even like being this tall. (6'4")

No way.

In college, me and a bunch of friends owned all the rock climbing gear and used to go rock climbing and rappelling on the weekends. Heights didn't bother me as long as I was roped off.

A little later I got a job working at a big grain elevator doing whatever needed to be done but it included a lot of mechanical maintenance to the legs working 196' in the air. As long as I was on the platform or on the ladders I was fine.

But even then, I was never coordinated enough to stand on a 12" wide beam while jostling another beam in place like these guys.

Fast forward 30 years. I can't stand on the edge of a roof without feeling woozy. I don't know what happened. Maybe I just figured out that I'm not invincible.

I used to walk I beams on county bridges and had no problem with that but don’t think I could handle that kind of work!

My youngest brother would do it, he does tree work and he’s been way up in them trees walking on branches that would pucker a squirrels butt and it doesn’t bother him

NEVER!

Not exactly.

Does concrete slip form count?

Heal no!!!

Have erected metal buildings with the highest probably 50'. That iron gets awful hot in the summer sun so you learn to walk steel. I did disassemble 14 stories of pin and ring scaffolding one time. To fat and uncoordinated nowadays and there's easier ways to make money.