Looks to me like they are getting ready to “top out” and are waiting on the next or final piece of the tower. A flag would be in place if that had already topped out. Pic is probably taken from the crane or a drone.
I love heights but greatly prefer to be alone as I’m not a trusting soul. Every job I ever worked on involving heights came with some asshole that would give you a big shove while actually holding on to you. Fuck that!
We are all the calls for diversity for those workers? Why is it that it is ok for them to complain about google or facebook hiring too many males, while they ignore these guys. All men all white. You can tell this is a photo of the real world and not taken for some advertisement or TV show. Then there would be 3 women, at least one of those black and one asian/indian. The dudes would not be white males unless one was in progress of losing his balance and falling off.
The guy in the middle of the back row is indin, Mohawk maybe. Lots of indin ironworkers and bridge painters in NYC, mostly Six Nations men, though that pic doesn’t look right for NYC.. Boston and other further north cities, lots of indin ironworkers and steeplejacks, MicMac and Maliseet and others, some from Canada.
Iconoclast421
June 2, 2017 1:10 pm
For a billion I would climb that sucker no problem. I’d climb it in the middle of the night, in a lightning storm, with a flock of birds crapping on me.
You forgot to say, “and jack off at the same time”. A billion is a lotta money, y’know.
Boat Guy
June 2, 2017 3:17 pm
After a year plus on the ground , I worked the “AIR” as was the expression . For several years it becomes natural and I assure you most men that work those heights have had those come to Jesus Moments . It wakes you up sometimes , human nature I guess .
RiNS
June 2, 2017 7:19 pm
Five guys exercising their white male privilege.
rhs jr
June 2, 2017 7:55 pm
I’d do it if I had a safety harness, a parachute and a back-up parachute.
Ed
June 2, 2017 9:03 pm
Hmmm, that’s odd. Only one indin in the group.
Trapped in Portlandia
June 2, 2017 9:18 pm
I can understand how 5 normal guys fit on that tower. But I don’t understand how 5 guys with balls the size of theirs fit up there.
Anonymous
June 2, 2017 11:35 pm
One billion dollars would replace my underwear. I’d do it.
Smoke Jensen
TheDeplorableOldeVirginian
June 3, 2017 11:29 am
That is very comparable to the mental image I already had of all the chicks I’ve been to bed with posing on top for a photo. Though it’s a lot more crowded in my version, the size proportion is still about right in this one…
They’re in an interesting position, but maybe the photographer is in a more interesting one.
Looks to me like they are getting ready to “top out” and are waiting on the next or final piece of the tower. A flag would be in place if that had already topped out. Pic is probably taken from the crane or a drone.
I love heights but greatly prefer to be alone as I’m not a trusting soul. Every job I ever worked on involving heights came with some asshole that would give you a big shove while actually holding on to you. Fuck that!
Edit: It was the Wilshire Grand Topping Out day. About 42 pics here: http://www.ladowntownnews.com/gallery/wilshire-grand-topping-out/collection_14e8c49a-751e-11e6-bbff-83790cea4c80.html#1
Drone photo.
Good times up there, I visit those places again in my dreams sometimes and it always tightens you up.
So the helmets are wearing them for protection?
They’re also wearing fall harnesses indicating they are on rope.
But that is still good balance, far more than most would have, with a good bit of manly bravado thrown in.
No guts, no glory.
Yep. Harnessed or not you gotta figure it’s not exactly windless up there.
Meanwhile,
Ontario elementary schools are banning the ‘high jump’ event at track and field because it is ‘too risky’.
https://www.thestar.com/sports/amateur/2017/05/31/2-ontario-school-boards-drop-high-jump-at-elementary-level-due-to-risk-factor.html
Not for two billion dollars.
Either the seated dude is a leprechaun or this picture is fake. Don’t these photoshoppers understand proportion?
I don’t think it is photo-shopped; it is photographed through a long lens.
I think this photo may have been taken by a photographer standing at street level but holding a 600 foot long selfie stick.
The picture looks non-proportional due to the fisheye lens.
I would absolutely sit up there for one billion dollars.
Yo and BB….and how would you get up there?; you think you could climb it?
No way.
I regularly do work at heights for cosiderably less so, yeah, a billion would be great.
I would do it for a billion dollars (tax free). Then I would run for president.
EBT, Section 8, Welfare would end day one. 🙂
Promise to build a wall and your in.
Diversity Free Safe Space!
We are all the calls for diversity for those workers? Why is it that it is ok for them to complain about google or facebook hiring too many males, while they ignore these guys. All men all white. You can tell this is a photo of the real world and not taken for some advertisement or TV show. Then there would be 3 women, at least one of those black and one asian/indian. The dudes would not be white males unless one was in progress of losing his balance and falling off.
The guy in the middle of the back row is indin, Mohawk maybe. Lots of indin ironworkers and bridge painters in NYC, mostly Six Nations men, though that pic doesn’t look right for NYC.. Boston and other further north cities, lots of indin ironworkers and steeplejacks, MicMac and Maliseet and others, some from Canada.
For a billion I would climb that sucker no problem. I’d climb it in the middle of the night, in a lightning storm, with a flock of birds crapping on me.
You forgot to say, “and jack off at the same time”. A billion is a lotta money, y’know.
After a year plus on the ground , I worked the “AIR” as was the expression . For several years it becomes natural and I assure you most men that work those heights have had those come to Jesus Moments . It wakes you up sometimes , human nature I guess .
Five guys exercising their white male privilege.
I’d do it if I had a safety harness, a parachute and a back-up parachute.
Hmmm, that’s odd. Only one indin in the group.
I can understand how 5 normal guys fit on that tower. But I don’t understand how 5 guys with balls the size of theirs fit up there.
One billion dollars would replace my underwear. I’d do it.
Smoke Jensen
That is very comparable to the mental image I already had of all the chicks I’ve been to bed with posing on top for a photo. Though it’s a lot more crowded in my version, the size proportion is still about right in this one…