I’m not sure if those lengths of bamboo are meeting CSA specs. He’s lucky the inspector wasn’t right there to catch him.
They aren’t bamboo they are x braces for the scaffolding.
A brother works in construction, and once slipped on a ladder to the rebar down below. Took some reinforcing steel through the neck which managed to push the vagus nerve and carotid artery out of the way and came to rest on the inside of his spine. He managed to lift himself off, holding his neck injury closed, reached the elevator, hit the down button and made the bottom of the high rise. His coworkers realized he was in trouble and he made it to St Mary’s Hospital and spent a week in ICU. The surgeon told him 99% of these types of cases result in funerals. Moral of the story: When you dance with the angels, always live to tell your tale!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Al Jolson died 58 years ago on October 23rd.
“At the peak of his career, he was dubbed “The World’s Greatest Entertainer”. His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized many songs that benefited from his “shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach.” Singers who were influenced by him include Bing Crosby, David Bowie, George Burns, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, and Rod Stewart” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5XQ9BhOqM
Sorry. Make that 68 years ago.
He lived the American Dream. He packed it all in, in a few short years – even had 4 wives. I read George Burns’ bio last year and George said Jolson and Jessel had a competition going. The three of them were friends.
Nice article Nancy. About all we know about Al Jolson today is the black face part of his act but Jolson helped out black entertainers and song-writers and many attended his funeral; he helped to bring jazz and blues music to a white audience.
Al Jolson died shortly after returning from Korea where he was entertaining the troops. His doctors told him not to go as he was in such poor health. He paid them no mind and even paid his own fare to go over.
Read a mystery novel once where the victim was – among other things – a scaffolder. Do remember the passion with which he defended his passion for good scaffolding: properly erected, it enabled other trades to do their jobs properly; poorly erected, and the other trades became – almost imperceptively – fatigued and prone to accidents.
In western nations we protect them with harnesses and lanyards and decking FFS. In other countries, where life has far less value …
When I lived in Montreal the Jacques Cartier Bridge was where I took people for a walk in order to scare the living daylights out of them, when they came to visit and wanted some excitement. Naturally, the bridge has sidewalks and bike lanes. This ‘suicide’ bridge, one of 4 in Canada, is 341 feet (104m) in height and shook like crazy when large transport trucks would zing by at high speed. Mission accomplished, no suicides though! (See the list of the other 3 bridges in the link, there’s 2 in Alberta)
The man featured here in the video is brave and crazy! Ugh, so…no thanks, wouldn’t want his job.
(In the Ken Follett book the “Pillars of the Earth”, there’s a few descriptions of people dying, some from scaffold falls, while building some of the greatest Gothic Cathedrals in Europe, ugh, so…no thanks either)
Yikes ! All I can say is … Asia … where life is cheap. There are probably 1,000 men waiting to take his job … and raising the scaffolds even FASTER … and more suicidal … than this dude after he drops 50 stories to his splattered death.
The worst construction accident I witnessed was a workman who put a siding nail … shot from a nail gun … through his lower forearm … right between ulna and radius. Literally crucified himself to the new lap siding. Oops! He calmly pulled out his prybar, levered his arm off the wall, wrapped-up the wound and drove himself to the ER. He was back at work the next day, arm bandaged … and NO workers Comp. claim. The man had my undying admiration from then on.
limited life expectancy I would say.
I guess that dude’s nuts are too big to wear a harness.
There are some truly ‘tough’ guys out there . . . armed with ILLEGAL guns. That’s why they can’t shoot worth shyte because their only practise comes when they drive down the street and randomly try to kill whoever. But don’t card them, don’t profile them and don’t really punish them if you do catch them. That way the cops can ask for more officers, the “justice system” can add costs to the merry go round and BLM douche bags can continue to blame whitey for his oppression of all.
We The North!
When in need of a laugh tune in to cnn Trump has these clowns so mad they can hardly speak
It reminds me of one definition of chutzpah that I once heard: a man murders both his parents and then begs the judge at his trial for mercy because he’s an orphan.
I’m thinking that hard hat might not offer the protection required. Notice no steel toed safety boots either.
In his new book, “Right Here, Right Now”, Stephen Harper talks about the ‘so far cold war’ (my words) between the nationalists and the globalists in western Europe and North America.
In Europe there are stirrings by middle and lower class people who have been hurt by globalism and Brexit is the most visible of that. In the US, all the lost employment among the middle and lower class over that last few decades in the rust belt and hinterland led to Trump. Canada has succumbed to the globalism ideology.
My thoughts, the current “bomb” scare in the US, the constant verbal attacks on Trump and his supporters, and all the incendiary of the last 24 months or so are skirmishes in this war in the US, and is threatening to break out into open violence.
I went from a dilbert cubicle to about 5 yrs as an electrician’s assistant.
guess which employment gave the most satisfaction and also taught me everything I need to do repairs and upgrades on my own place?
I got to the point I would ‘tease’ the so-called ‘experts’ with hypothetical Qs to which I already knew the answer.
I also made numerous innovations like scanning the concrete with a stud detector to find the rebar and cut the holes elsewhere, instead of the ‘traditional standard accepted’ method of pounding and pounding away dulling the drill bit and taking 8 times longer.
VDH: Like the slowing “caravan,” the Dems have lost their ride.
“Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives.”
The new caravan appears strangely well organized. The marchers, many of them young men, do not appear destitute. They do not seem to fit the profile of desperate refugees whose lives were in immediate danger in their homeland.”
For many Americans, the would-be refugees may seem presumptuous in assuming that they have the right to barge into someone else’s country. Most Americans realize that if an organized caravan of foreigners can simply announce in advance plans to crash into the U.S. illegally, then the concepts of a border, citizenship, sovereignty, and even a country itself no longer exist.”
A number of other events on the eve of the midterm elections also may have the opposite of the intended effect on voters. The Supreme Court nomination hearings for Brett Kavanaugh ended up as scripted melodrama. Protesters disrupted the Senate on cue. They screamed from the gallery. Democratic senators staged a walkout. They filibustered and interrupted the proceedings.”
Their collective aim was to show America that male Republican senators were insensitive to the feelings and charges of Christine Blasey Ford, and therefore callous and sexist.”
I’m not sure if those lengths of bamboo are meeting CSA specs. He’s lucky the inspector wasn’t right there to catch him.
They aren’t bamboo they are x braces for the scaffolding.
A brother works in construction, and once slipped on a ladder to the rebar down below. Took some reinforcing steel through the neck which managed to push the vagus nerve and carotid artery out of the way and came to rest on the inside of his spine. He managed to lift himself off, holding his neck injury closed, reached the elevator, hit the down button and made the bottom of the high rise. His coworkers realized he was in trouble and he made it to St Mary’s Hospital and spent a week in ICU. The surgeon told him 99% of these types of cases result in funerals. Moral of the story: When you dance with the angels, always live to tell your tale!
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
Al Jolson died 58 years ago on October 23rd.
“At the peak of his career, he was dubbed “The World’s Greatest Entertainer”. His performing style was brash and extroverted, and he popularized many songs that benefited from his “shamelessly sentimental, melodramatic approach.” Singers who were influenced by him include Bing Crosby, David Bowie, George Burns, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, and Rod Stewart”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr5XQ9BhOqM
Sorry. Make that 68 years ago.
He lived the American Dream. He packed it all in, in a few short years – even had 4 wives. I read George Burns’ bio last year and George said Jolson and Jessel had a competition going. The three of them were friends.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jolson
Nice article Nancy. About all we know about Al Jolson today is the black face part of his act but Jolson helped out black entertainers and song-writers and many attended his funeral; he helped to bring jazz and blues music to a white audience.
Al Jolson died shortly after returning from Korea where he was entertaining the troops. His doctors told him not to go as he was in such poor health. He paid them no mind and even paid his own fare to go over.
Read a mystery novel once where the victim was – among other things – a scaffolder. Do remember the passion with which he defended his passion for good scaffolding: properly erected, it enabled other trades to do their jobs properly; poorly erected, and the other trades became – almost imperceptively – fatigued and prone to accidents.
In western nations we protect them with harnesses and lanyards and decking FFS. In other countries, where life has far less value …
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Cartier_Bridge
When I lived in Montreal the Jacques Cartier Bridge was where I took people for a walk in order to scare the living daylights out of them, when they came to visit and wanted some excitement. Naturally, the bridge has sidewalks and bike lanes. This ‘suicide’ bridge, one of 4 in Canada, is 341 feet (104m) in height and shook like crazy when large transport trucks would zing by at high speed. Mission accomplished, no suicides though! (See the list of the other 3 bridges in the link, there’s 2 in Alberta)
The man featured here in the video is brave and crazy! Ugh, so…no thanks, wouldn’t want his job.
(In the Ken Follett book the “Pillars of the Earth”, there’s a few descriptions of people dying, some from scaffold falls, while building some of the greatest Gothic Cathedrals in Europe, ugh, so…no thanks either)
Yikes ! All I can say is … Asia … where life is cheap. There are probably 1,000 men waiting to take his job … and raising the scaffolds even FASTER … and more suicidal … than this dude after he drops 50 stories to his splattered death.
The worst construction accident I witnessed was a workman who put a siding nail … shot from a nail gun … through his lower forearm … right between ulna and radius. Literally crucified himself to the new lap siding. Oops! He calmly pulled out his prybar, levered his arm off the wall, wrapped-up the wound and drove himself to the ER. He was back at work the next day, arm bandaged … and NO workers Comp. claim. The man had my undying admiration from then on.
limited life expectancy I would say.
I guess that dude’s nuts are too big to wear a harness.
http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/crimeincanada/bullets-narrowly-miss-boy-8-in-jamestown-shooting/ar-BBOQPVZ
There are some truly ‘tough’ guys out there . . . armed with ILLEGAL guns. That’s why they can’t shoot worth shyte because their only practise comes when they drive down the street and randomly try to kill whoever. But don’t card them, don’t profile them and don’t really punish them if you do catch them. That way the cops can ask for more officers, the “justice system” can add costs to the merry go round and BLM douche bags can continue to blame whitey for his oppression of all.
We The North!
When in need of a laugh tune in to cnn Trump has these clowns so mad they can hardly speak
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/crimeincanada/man-who-killed-parents-and-2-others-gets-parole/ar-BBORM4z
Good old ‘justice’ in Canada.
Why people like this are freed makes normal people sick.
When you kill multiple people you should never leave jail until you die.
We can thank the cowardice of our courts, our politicians and parole board scum.
It reminds me of one definition of chutzpah that I once heard: a man murders both his parents and then begs the judge at his trial for mercy because he’s an orphan.
I’m thinking that hard hat might not offer the protection required. Notice no steel toed safety boots either.
Usually they are wearing “construction sandals”!
Excellent
Dave Rubin with Tucker Carlson:
https://youtu.be/FpTyHXOdlFs
In his new book, “Right Here, Right Now”, Stephen Harper talks about the ‘so far cold war’ (my words) between the nationalists and the globalists in western Europe and North America.
In Europe there are stirrings by middle and lower class people who have been hurt by globalism and Brexit is the most visible of that. In the US, all the lost employment among the middle and lower class over that last few decades in the rust belt and hinterland led to Trump. Canada has succumbed to the globalism ideology.
My thoughts, the current “bomb” scare in the US, the constant verbal attacks on Trump and his supporters, and all the incendiary of the last 24 months or so are skirmishes in this war in the US, and is threatening to break out into open violence.
Remember the words, “fundamental change”.
https://www.amazon.ca/Right-Here-Now-Leadership-Disruption/dp/0771038623/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1540479919&sr=1-1&keywords=right+here+right+now+stephen+harper
I went from a dilbert cubicle to about 5 yrs as an electrician’s assistant.
guess which employment gave the most satisfaction and also taught me everything I need to do repairs and upgrades on my own place?
I got to the point I would ‘tease’ the so-called ‘experts’ with hypothetical Qs to which I already knew the answer.
I also made numerous innovations like scanning the concrete with a stud detector to find the rebar and cut the holes elsewhere, instead of the ‘traditional standard accepted’ method of pounding and pounding away dulling the drill bit and taking 8 times longer.
VDH: Like the slowing “caravan,” the Dems have lost their ride.
“Midterm Optics Are Bad for Progressives.”
The new caravan appears strangely well organized. The marchers, many of them young men, do not appear destitute. They do not seem to fit the profile of desperate refugees whose lives were in immediate danger in their homeland.”
For many Americans, the would-be refugees may seem presumptuous in assuming that they have the right to barge into someone else’s country. Most Americans realize that if an organized caravan of foreigners can simply announce in advance plans to crash into the U.S. illegally, then the concepts of a border, citizenship, sovereignty, and even a country itself no longer exist.”
A number of other events on the eve of the midterm elections also may have the opposite of the intended effect on voters. The Supreme Court nomination hearings for Brett Kavanaugh ended up as scripted melodrama. Protesters disrupted the Senate on cue. They screamed from the gallery. Democratic senators staged a walkout. They filibustered and interrupted the proceedings.”
Their collective aim was to show America that male Republican senators were insensitive to the feelings and charges of Christine Blasey Ford, and therefore callous and sexist.”
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/midterm-elections-progressive-politics-immigration-protests/
Like a perpetual toothache (or a Trudeau), the Clintons just won’t go away:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/10/power-hungry-family-wont-go-away-chelsea-clinton-says-running-for-political-office-is-something-i-think-about/
As if there aren’t enough frivolous lawsuits clogging the courts, some wee tykes are suing the U. S. federal government over “climate change”:
http://traffic.libsyn.com/sciencemag/SciencePodcast_181026.mp3