Nerves Of Steel (1927)
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2014
- Item title reads: " Nerves Of Steel. Engineers at work erecting 192 ft crane from Baker Street Station - 31 ft. higher than Nelsons Column - provide daily thrills.
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L/S of a tall crane with men at work midway. A man walks along the arm of the crane. The camera follows him out. Camera looks down to the street far below. From below L/S, men on the arm wave 'come back'. There are more shots up top of the men on the crane arm.
Note: It makes me nervous to think of it, stunning shots from a brave cameraman. That was surely going up in the world.
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I imagine the cameras back in the day were quite heavy, the cameraman deserves a honorable mention for filming this
*honourable
@@davidcunningham8699 My bad! Thank you for the correction, but mistakes happen. I'm not editing that out ;)
@@paulosantiago7457 xx
@@davidcunningham8699 honorable is also correct.
@@TheColdbrews You took America from us you rebellious knaves, you cannot take our language too, the "u" 's are what separate us from the spanish! Nice flag though!
Don’t worry, they are wearing the standard safety equipment of the day. A flat cap and a roll up cigarette.
Excellent!😂
No health and safety in them days . just get on and do the job,
dan white Whistling while you work, a spam sandwich wrapped up in brown paper at lunch and the real possibility of a horrific injury before home time. Simpler times.
Plus a Ham sandwich in his pocket
Peaky blinders 😂
Nowadays they call this free climbing. Back in 1930 this was just called ‘a job’
I'm pretty sure they weren't getting paid to walk on the cranes
Accurate
@Dacia Sandero guys Truth, tho? A lot of women picked up the slack because a lot of men aren't doing it. So, if you need a faucet put in and you don't have 500.00 to pay someone for less than an hour of work, you and your UA-cam video are going under the sink...it's annoying, but fairly self-explanatory.
I've seen grown men not know how to operate a tire gage, what that egg-shaped bulge on the sidewall is (extremely dangerous is what it is...) or what to do when the oil light comes on their extremely overpriced Harley.
That's for starters. Yes, many women are irresponsible fooling with losers, to be sure and obviously not all men are like that, but many parents are slacking off on their jobs.
These kids are afraid of EVERYTHING. For NO reason. Like a dog can't even walk past them within 30 feet. And the dog didn't even glance at them. That's ridiculous.
You also don't need a helmet for a tiny scooter. You learn to pick your head up when you fall. We did. That's a scam to sell people landfill. Same as with cell phones. If you don't have a job, you don't need an 800.00 iPhone. Or any phone.
This is when men were men and took care of stuff. Not wearing more makeup than most chicks. Lol.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 I think you are way over exaggerating, but I see your point.
Anybody know how much was the salary backthen?
Never ever do this without a cigarette.
Or a vest and tie
😁llf
No a good idea, did you know cigarettes can kill you?
You should limit your crane walks to ten a day.
A Wild Woodbine
Must admit one of the guys looks more confident than the other....balls of steel....
1st day on the job vs 2 years in the job
he looked like an elderly man.
Just a older guy not so agile anymore I think
I just appreciate a good old historical video.
My grandfather helped build the empire state building, and seeing pictures with him and his friends eating and working that high have me goosebumps. I couldn't do it.
Also to think that many fell to their death, which the remaining workmen were faced with, not just a chance of falling but falling. "Where is your mate, Jim, today?" "Girder got him. Flat as a pancake on the ground."
I could not do it also.
Magnetic shoes or not, they had to wear ear protection.
From the construction noise? NO. . . .
They needed it to protect themselves from the sound all those HUGE BRASS BALLS made while banging against each other!
@@jimharris9394 Magnetic shoes would leave them unbalanced and falling. Strong hearts, strong people, real living with death as a way of life, not as it is now. Cold and hard days made men and women of substance
@@collincovid6950
The "magnetic shoes" was a reference to a different reply where several dudes from several different iron-worker union locals talked about having "magnetic shoes" for walking the high iron.
What I tried to say was that the defining characteristic of these people were the bowling-ball sized set of brass balls they had to have to do that.
There's one film showing a guy *all by himself* sitting on the *VERY END* of a girder way the hell up where you have to look *DOWN* to watch the birdies, straddling it with a huge-ass spanner.
He tightens up something and then flips around to the OUTSIDE edge of the girder to tighten the other side.
I was having vertigo *WHILE SITTING DOWN* it was so intense!
Balls of Steel!
In the 1960s, my father was the field engineer on the construction of a lift bridge across the Burlington Canal in Hamilton, Canada. When he was a the top of one tower, (150 ft high), to go to the top of the other tower, rather than climb down and then climb up, he would walk across the power cables between the two, about 100 yard distance. He never told my mother what he had done until after the job was done.
Your father was an incredibly brave man!!!!
GOD BLESS YOUR FATHER
There's a very fine line between bravery and stupidity. That sounds more stupid than brave.
@@carpetclimber4027 If the money was right, you'd be doing the exact same thing, right or wrong?!?!
@@christophertmunro4503 nope, never heard of a rich man that hasn't died yet...
@@DL101ca Then YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT MONEY!!!!!!!!
Safety flat cap - check!
Safety cigarette- check!
A few safety beers before we go up- check!
Jobsagudden.
If you mentioned Hi Vis, they would say "we don't speak French squire".
We really are lightweights when compared to our grandfathers and great grandfathers
too true, I worked on a site where they took the steel knives and forks away and replaced them with plastic, you could not make it up and all the young guys coming into the game are been treated like sheep, I am so glad I am at the other end and have great memories of how it was a pleasure to go to work
Aye my father was a scaffolder 💪
I'm glad I grew up with metal toys that had sharp edges, an electric train (which needed a transformer) and a chemistry set. Today's toys teach kids nothing.
Yeah but you live longer!!!
That is so true 😀my husband of 79 yrs still paints he just completed our house which is a double storey and fixed the roof with his father's old ladder .That's Grace and guts.
I'm looking into the past nearly 100 years in black and white with no sound and it's still making me feel extremely anxious!
I never knew I had anxiety until I watched some kids climb the closed down 1999 ft tower with no safety equipment. Wanna talk about shitting a brick. I used to build cell towers years ago, but this dude had me worried as I was always tied off and he was barely holding on.
It's a bird. It's a plane. No wait. It's just Grandpa producing testosterone
Ah the good old days. When a man woke up, went to work and maybe came home.
Yeah, when a man didn't freak out at McDonald's because his Happy Meal was late, LOL. When pandemics weren't used as excuses to make your goverment more authoritarian. In short, sane times were people had less mental problems than today's levels, and there was less polarizations, tensions, woke journalism and so on. With a feel regulations in dangerous jobs, health and food they could've solve it, and they solved that problems, but tell to a leftist that you want to have a limit in more regulations, bureaucrats, taxes, and State interventions... LOL. Being prudent and having balanced concepts is not that difficult, so that's a tip for some.
Peace out (Disabled notifications, LOL).
You'd be surprised how relaxing it can be up at heights. As a Scaffolder, I enjoyed being above a site, especially in good weather.
My family are all scaffs. Father worked for SGB. scaffding of great britain.
Ah, but aren't there RAILS up on those?
I saw concert rig guy on the beams a good 100 feet up. Looked to me. No safety anything. No net. Gym shoes. 1980s. Journey: Frontiers and Beyond. A doc about stage crews.
@@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823 did you want them to go there bare feet or something? Stop glorifying the courage of some and dismissing the courage of others, you wouldn't do both.
I don't understand how they got out there and back without
hi-viz vests
stupid then arent you
@@paulmcdonough1093 Pot, meet kettle.
They wouldn’t show up in black & white silly!
Because they’re American and not unionised Australians
@@ronanrogers4127 American? In London? I doubt it.
No idea why this was recommended to me, but I watched it anyway.
I did that.
👍👍👍😀😃😁
Yep same here
Me either lol watching a 92 year old video people walk normally in such a height.
@Doogie Carpit Burger , imagine trying to not create any reverb off of the steel that might surprise or startle your co-worker 20 stories up.
The algorithm is picking up patterns.....a new depression is coming....
My brother was an iron worker for about 30 years. He worked on some pretty high building while he was in the iron workers union. Several of his friends traveled with him over the years and one fell over 40 feet, he lived but broke so many bones he could barely walk and olny had use on one arm. Iron workers are a different breed of men
some people don't mind risking their lives if the moneys good or if there's nothing else. It can be seen as either brave or reckless.
My uncle was on as well back in the day...he was up high on something narrow once and same type of molten slag came from above and went down the back of his boot.....he couldn't react or move due to the fact he would of fell. It burned the back of his foot to the bone
Different breed of employers more like!
That might help explain the way the second man walked in this video..
We Ironworkers have magnetic shoes!!! "Redliner" Ironworkers Local #111 RockIsland Illinois 33 year member and lived to tell the tales!!!
Jesus, not only are they walking on this narrow, uneven surface a million miles up, theyve also got the wind blowing at them. Omg!!!
These men ....incredible!
*They'd ask the men to walk to the other end of the crane when lifting something really heavy, their balls served as counterweight's.*
Lol
Lmao that’s funny man
Funny AND original!
A sky tv engineer drilled a hole in my outer wall so he could install a hook which he used to fasten his safety harness to whilst he worked from the fourth rung of a pair of steps. Incredible scenes
I told to Sky guy to not bother fitting the gear if he was going to drill a hole in my house, so freest it is :-)
For real? 🤣🙈
And a trampoline underneath in case he fell.
We had a sky engineer turn up to fit a dish...he turned up, looked at the job then said a specialist high installer would need to come out. You would think that I lived in a 4 storey building except my house is actually a dormer bungalow😂 I told him to leave the dish and I’d do it myself, which he did!!!
One of our friends had a dish fitted about 10 feet up. Apparently he had a harness and drilled a shackle into the wall to tie the rather short ladder to? How silly.We have cable and mining equipment was swifty facilitated in order to lay a 6 mm cable about six inches deep . You can't take risks to be fair.
My Pepa was an ironworker. I miss him dearly 😭😥 he was a man's man. Big & burly. Solid as a rock. I loved hugging him 😭
That's when men were real men.
Unfortunately,,,,,, you'll never see men like that anymore.. GOD BLESS HIM!!!
Spent my career as a custom historical framer. Used to say to everyone, "See that part his safety harness is connected to? I put it there!" Highest I have ever been was a church steeple that had wind damage in Detroit. 318' No harness!
318 inches? That's nothing
@@lj7169 ' is feet
It's quite amazing they had such good balance... considering the steel balls between their legs
Their steel balls were their counter balance.
The days before Health and Safety laws. Watching this made my palms sweat, my toes clench and tingle and my stomach flutter madly. How I envy people who can treat height so nonchalantly.
Hey Dave, how are you?
Take away a safety net and people take more care.True in all aspects of life.
Amen brother!
I held my breath throughout that, PHEW!
Ive walked high steel, sometimes without being tied off and I tell you what - these dudes are nuts.
@@lovethyneighbor6886 and what have you done?
@@budte
Probably BDSM
Yep...me too. Midtown in the late 80's.
Were you high whilst walking or the steel ?
You could literally offer me a million pounds to do this and I wouldn’t even consider it.
This could be a new TV game show, walk the high crane unaided for 1 million. Granted the ones that fail would have to be censored.
Don't worry, there are people out there doing it for free.
@@FranFerioli yeah with ropes and harnesses, not unaided
@@mickeypearce244 there actually is an anime about that very thing lol
Kaiji season 2.
Just think of the funeral you could have with a million pounds though
This is right up there with watching Fred Dibnah ladder a chimney. Terrifying.
Quite right, takes guts to do it right.
Fred was a Superman and a great bloke. I'd feel so weak in his presence.
Fred would,d not have done that. One gust,of wind.
God, that still gives me the willies! When the ladder section begins to lean OUTWARDS I feel my toes curling...
@@stokes8626 or Alain Robert, Alex Honnold
They could tell me that there was a suitcase at the end of that crane filled with a million dollars, and all I had to do was walk out there and pick it up. I couldn’t do it! I would want to, but I simply could not. Watching these guys makes me queasy.
Got vertigo just watching this. 🥶
I was a plumber and worked on all heights of bulidings, but once I got to fifty I got vertigo, and then I had a policy, "if it isn't on the ground then I am not interested", as I feel once you get to certain age you don't bounce when you fall and hit the ground
Same here as a Decorator i have climbed ladders all my life but dead on age 50 my nerve went one day and that was it ,step ladders only now !
Must be something about turning 50. I'm the same. Worked at height all my life but developed a fear of heights a couple of years ago. Can't even enjoy the circus anymore; the high wire and teeterboard make me too anxious.
That's a good job, but tell me, how to you get the faucet wrench around that nut? It's a tiny thing! My last one was like a huge screw you just do hand tight. This one they give you a soap dispenser (whoopee) and a tiny nut to do the job of the great old style.
I'm going to sue Delta. My back and sides are STILL killing me and that was Thursday.
It's Sunday now!
It's up and it works and I have the right tool, but I can't get a good grip on the nut. Seems like a 2 person job!
@@stegra5960 Have you seen the French guy do the WTC high wire?
There's a great movie on it! I watched it on a tiny screen and the effects were SO great, I thought it was REAL.
The rear tops of my calves and the knees were buzzing almost electrically watching this stuff. Amazing bravery and derring-do.
Have a look at Fred Dibnah steeple jack, died in 1995, just watch how he climbs the 300 feet high brick and steel chimneys. ..this will make your knees tremble. ..amazing stuff
Or as he called it: a normal Wednesday morning.
The second guy looked kinda scared. 💀
Then that man was extremely brave.
I thought that aswel
There's nothing wrong with him... it's just normal to get afraid of that height... the other guy is what's in the quotation...HE IS NOT NORMAL..haha
A bit hungover from nite before
David Digital lol, more like he had one too many on his lunch break
Like a boss - after WW1 this would have been a cake walk!!!!
Good call 👍
A "cake"walk??
TheConorsmithusa Cakewalk just means an easy victory 🤝
@@KumaBean they must've been American crane men then if it was a cake walk !?
deano dog Lmao
No tiktok, no instagram, no selfies. Just people living in the moment.
As the man said , “ It’s not the falling that’s the problem , it’s the sudden stop ? “
;-))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
Funny.
"Deceleration trauma"
It only hurts when hit the ground.
The second man looked nervous, rightfully so 😳
Maybe he had his eyes closed. 😂 I would only do it in a VR environment.
Danny
I wouldn’t do it in that environment either 😳 !
Peter Charles 😂😂 me neither; its still too real
Imagine doing this in your dreams. 😨
OnePunchTrombone
Would have to be in a nightmare for sure 😳
Man those are tough men now i understand good times make people weak.
_Honestly guys , action heroes we see in movies are nothing in comparison to these real-life heroes_
_Without them there wouldn't be any megastructures around us_ 🏗️🌉
@jake lament you tinhat is awesome, your paranoia to.
@jake lament those workers in skyscrapers today are heroes to.
The blokes in this didn't know fear. Amazing. 😉
Is it that they didn't "know fear" or that they hadn't been indoctrinated into a false illusion of safety as we have?
They knew fear. They had the courage to overcome it.
They feared not having a job and being able to feed their kids. Being broke will make you do some wild things.
They had to do it, you wouldn't if you was paid, shut up
This makes my palms sweat just watching it..
Lmao, I would have loved it if the job interviews were filmed. Madness.
Easy:
"You wanna job?"
"Yep!"
"It's up there." (Jerks thumb upwards)
(Gulp!)
"C'mon mate, I don't got all day - you wanna job or not?"
Felt unwell looking at that slip, a sudden wind....
Very courageous workers back in the day unbelievable!!!
@Mike Wilhelmson .. back in the day though they didn't have protective equipment... But there foot work is amazing prancing along steel beams..💪
... I know but it's just unreal death-defying not afraid I know what they had to do to provide for families I'm sure a lot of them didn't come back home
They certainly were very courageous, but also exploited. If you were not ready to do crazy things like this, you were going to get fired immediately. Those men really didn't have much of a choice, especially after 1929 when the job market collapsed.
But they gave Bruce Jenner, *Courage of the year* award for being a weirdo😬
whenever I get fed up with my job. I see videos of these brave men to boost my moral. My salute to these guys..
Balls of titanium! Would love to see a current day OH&S officers reaction to these work place practices! 🤣
Thankfully, working men and women aren't obliged to risk their lives without even the prospect of their families even being compensated if they inconveniently die at work, just so that they can put food on table any more. Thank f*** for H&S and workers rights.
I'd love to see the OH&S/OSHA officers out on that crane-arm!
Just be sure to warn the guys down below to grab an umbrella. . .
Balls of titanium? Not then. It would be good old-fashioned Pittsburgh Steel, and custom drawers to wear that fit 'em. Regular pants won't fit a set that big!
@@jimharris9394 No, it would be more like Sheffield British steel.
@@znentitan4032 Be picky!
I feel ill just watching
My Dads old job. No harness or slings when he was working.
Wahnsinn , diese zwei Männer haben mir wieder eine schlaflose Nacht beschert !
Fearless, some people are like that.....I suppose people took jobs like that because of the depression ,and desperation
This was 1927, before the Great Depression, and they wouldn't be desperate it was just their job. They probably liked it.
Steeplejacks were (are?) some seriously fearless b*stards too, borderline nutjobs, but they have my respect, lol
I felt dizzy watching those chaps...
A sphincter tightening moment and I only watched it in the comfort of my own loungeroom.
Shut your mouth before i give you a sphincter loosening
Don't be scared. It's not the fall that kills, it's the sudden stop😄👍👏
What's a loungeroom?
@Кирилл Пецюха 🤣
I hope you didn't pull a muscle or anything. I hear bananas help with that sort of thing. Aaand they have lots of potassium...🍌
For a minute that back dude was like "I'm rethinking this one Dale, that Gail of a breeze has got my knees knocking." But he pushed on, untimely suit coat and all.
I'd pass out and fall over if I was forced to do this. You couldn't pay me enough to do this.
Ni yo tapoco lo haria,por todo el dinero de mundo,hay que ser muy valiente
@@heberperez3366 no mames wey, ni si tuvieras que hacer eso para alimentar tus niños?
It's alright, you'd get used to do it gradually
@@shinji5217 Y,que ganarias,si lo haces,?,solo,morir en el intento,perdiendo mucha mas,tu vida,y tu familia,.Razona un poco,no te ciegues..
Did tower crane work in 70`s, no harness then.
The second guy on the crane wasn’t so steady. He was probably on the piss the night before.
He was probably the first guy's Grandfather.
Blessings iyah greetings from Vanuatu 😁😃👍🇻🇺🇻🇺
my HR department would have had a heart attack thinking of the impending lawsuits if this was done today :)
Wow much respect
Balls of steel more like
Yes!! you got it!!
That's the counterweight.
This footage is priceless
Whatever algoritm decided that I would like to watch this: it is wrong. I get sweaty palms from videos like this
Tons of skill and nerve, awesome
I wonder if they panicked if the wind blew the roll-up away and posted their mental health despair on social media!
No snowflakes here
Good job no mobiles in those days
No cotton wool society back then. People getting on with something, not posting mental health despair over the most trivial "issue" because they have not equipped themselves to deal with life.
Steel nerves, steel jaws… once clenched, no roll up could escape. On the contrary, the smoke they exhaled lanced with such force and speed as to knock birds out of the sky.
@@timselves1 Yeah, some climbed the cranes for a meager fee, while others earned a lot of money in a dishonest way ..
I get butterflies just watching these guys.
Wow, incredible!
They walk a jib faster than I can walk the pavement.
The first guy out looks pretty confident - the second looks as if he's really, REALLY not enjoying it. Poor sod.
Second one was really terrified by his own actions.Guess he promised that he's in if they start the stunt.This shows that it is better to shut your mouth after having extra beers at the pub.
Some people are just extra careful.
Amazing
and not a selfie in sight. wonderful.
They don’t make them that tough anymore hey
Ahhh!!!!! Get sick to my stomach by watching it...
These guys belong in the same league as fred dibnah, real men!
Yes Fred was something special
@@bartholomewchuzzlewit4356 I'm irish and I love watching old clips on you tube of Fred.he was truly special.a rare breed indeed
My heart got paralized watching this video, 😱!
Watching that made my legs go funny..!!
I used to get dizzy wearing platform shoes, "I think I might be showing my age "
I can get a nosebleed on a deep pile carpet
That clanging sound you heard in the background was not the steel but the steel nuts hanging between their legs😂
awesome
‘Ten years ago I was in the Somme. Being 200 feet in the air just isn’t frightening in comparison.’
If OSHA existed back then they'd STILL be building the Empire State building today..
More like,,,,,, BALLS OF STEEL!!!
Those men were unbelievable!!
Respect..
Just wondering how many people needlessly died on those cranes back in those days ?
@@dougijcw9758 100% agree with your statement 👍
One wrong footstep and it's goodbye world🤪😇
A carefree happy go lucky approach to life in those days.
Somethings never change.
Not many as they would not have got paid !
@@dougijcw9758 Fearlessness is an asset, but intelligence is more valuable. Fearlessness without intelligence is mere recklessness. As a veteran, I can tell you reckless people get there comrades killed as often as themselves. You want brave people who are smart and good at there job. Take away safety measures and anyone with brains will never go into that job.
Very few fall ( or fell..) from places like that. Most falls are from trips and materials breaking (fragile roofs). Even so...even at that time there should have been a proper walkway. The second man was very unhappy.
The real badasses
Helps to have a bottle of Jim Beam in the lunch bucket... that's why they call them "Beams" :-)
Even if the skinny path was a solid flat surface with no openings it would still have been wild but to have only the side bars and that metal X shape every foot or so, plus having to walk on those skinny metal bars is a wow in today's standards for many. Not even a decent inexpensive safety harness eh. Even if it was a few feet off the ground it can be difficult walking atop of such a pattern of metal. It's got to be nearly perfect of a walk and just a bit of wind or rain etc could quickly become treacherous. Balls of steel! Size and age were not looked at the exact same as today. The days of 15-30+ round boxing matches and having lunch on a metal crane up in the sky while the ppl look like dots. When the food was less tainted, the drinks were purer, the people actually communicated to one another without having a cell glued to their palms, the farms were organic fresh and abundant, the air clear clean fresh and beautiful, the sun and sky beautifully bright and vibrant, the music was actually music, the news and Media was objective from all angles not completely bias and wasn't all owned by just a handful of people that made it their agenda to have one set side of views and any objective journalism was no longer tolerated and if it does fit the narrative it will not be seen period. The days where your word was your word and not just something one said. There are ups and downs to each Era/Generation but for the most part a unique time in history to have been a part of.
It's hard to imagine why there were so many fatalities in those days
not only then; nowadays in Qatar, migrants building stadiums since four years for about 230-260 £/month : death toll about 6000 !!!
@@andrecostermans7109 saudi arabia need to stop
Can’t watch this. Stomach gets all
Knotted up. Head spins.
What a wonderful world.
Imagine tripping on one of those flimsy bars. Street pizza. This video is giving me an appetite...
Whats healrh and safety?
They should really be wearing helmets, just in case they fall.
Ha ha ha, love it. Dpoet
Builders of the Empire - magnificent
I sometimes have to work at heights and I find these old videos difficult to watch.
In returning, the person at the back is walking as such he is wandering in a park.. 🌴
The two guys walking out on the crane arm:
First guy: "Hey mack, you gotta light?"
Second guy: "You got any toilet paper?!"
No safety sense much in those days, and it shows.
One wrong move would be your last.
Never the less, they got the job done in the end, nerves of steel indeed.
A nice reflective look back in time to how it was.🙂😬👍
Why England is the greatest nation on planet Earth.
Go to google images and search for 'men at lunch', the crane the guys in the video above was high enough, but those guys who built the early US skyscrapers? Whoa, them's some balls, lol 🤝