Time I spent around hiway bridge construction it was the carpenters doing most of those high altitude antics, and they were just as
. One of the crane operators I oiled for told me a story from a job he did at LA Harbor
This one particular Iron Worker was giving the operator a really bad time one morning with his out of the ordinary desires for the crane to do. Come lunch time the Iron Worker decided rather than walk back to the dock on the iron, he would ride the headache ball to shore. He climbs on, my operator buddy swings him over the bay, releases the brake on the load line the guy was riding, down he goes, max velocity
. Shuts off the rig and goes to lunch with everybody else except the troublesome lad hanging over the bay
.