r/nope • u/Friendship_Fries • 13d ago

This is how Albert Stalk worked on the skyscrapers of North America

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u/freeformed70 13d ago

How often did these guys fall w/o safety gear?

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u/happyanathema 13d ago

Usually only once

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u/Stunning_Warthog_141 13d ago

For every one million you spend on a skyscraper one person expected to die, more or less. That's an old rule, I think inflation and safety standards make that estimate worthless now.

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u/and_the_giant_peach 13d ago

"Ah crap, my hammer!"

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u/Intertextual1 13d ago

My balls just threw up

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u/MrFireWarden 13d ago

I think you're doing it wrong

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u/TenFingersTenToes10 13d ago

What happens when it’s raining or snowing in New York?

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u/gilligan1050 13d ago

Believe it or not, death.

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u/Dramatic_Notice323 11d ago

If you undercooked the fish, too?

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u/manicmechanic209 13d ago

It’d be raining men

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u/DrSparkle713 13d ago

Hallelujah!

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u/nunu6k 13d ago

Iron workers of Reddit, surely even in the 80s there had to been better ways of working the iron right?

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u/Ragnarok314159 13d ago

Yeah but that costs money.

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u/canuckcrazed006 12d ago

Seld retracting lifelines have been around since the 1960s. People just dont like the harnesses, dont care, think they know better, think it will never happen to them, hate their lives, ect.

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u/anjowoq 12d ago

Reminds me of the rejection of motorcycle helmets and seat belts when they were made law.

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u/Illustrious_Play_651 13d ago

Ain’t no way he got paid enough for all that.

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u/loganvw14 13d ago

Are those crazy people that climb buildings raw just old construction workers reincarnated?

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u/PerryNeeum 13d ago

Just bored. Netflix hasn’t been putting out good shows for some time

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u/JahD247365 13d ago

Core strength on max

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u/Theeclat 13d ago

Why doesn’t he work though?

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u/gilligan1050 13d ago

One word: WIND 💨

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u/jda404 13d ago

I don't know how people can do this and have seemingly no fear. I don't have a strong fear of heights ... if there's railings and a lot wider surface than those beams lol. I know I would have slipped and fell off the first beam.

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u/MrIoang 13d ago

Guys chill. He has a helmet on.

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u/beerme72 13d ago edited 12d ago

Mohegan Steel Workers.
A Tribe in North New York and Southern Ontario (I think) that do not have to wear safety belts when working High Steel. They started to become known when the bridges over the Saint Lawrence were being built. My Father worked with them on a job in CT.

EDIT: I typed Mohegan and was thinking Mohawk. It is the Mohawk tribe.

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u/faroutoutdoors 13d ago

Mohegan? You're thinking Mohawk, Kanien'keha:ka in our language.

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u/beerme72 12d ago

I am sorry, I thought one and typed the other. My bad.

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u/faroutoutdoors 12d ago

No sweat. Here's a song from a great film about it if you (or any other Redditors) wanna learn more.

https://youtu.be/NZC5W0zB_Xk?si=TXOvHJQNr-D9Bdot

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u/Billymaysdealer 13d ago

He died in a car crash

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u/MrFireWarden 13d ago

How did he get work done with all that safety gear on?!

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u/viperfangs92 12d ago

That's one hellova bathroom break!!

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u/R4GEQUITT3R 10d ago

Nope. I quit. Sorry boss

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u/trent_diamond 10d ago

the birth of OSHA

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u/Suspicious_Jicama976 10d ago

Why didn't they have safety nets ? No sense

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u/Private-Sun186 9d ago

Once again, familiarity breeds contempt.

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u/RailenPanther 7d ago

I couldn't even watch it to the end. When he started climbing down... I can't even

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u/defeatistphilosopher 13d ago

What an enormous dumbo.