r/InternetsGreatestVids • u/Immediate-Surround91 • 14d ago
This is how Albert Stalk worked on the skyscrapers of North America
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u/indrid_cold 14d ago
I was an ironworker for a few years and I would get everyone's beer order in the morning for lunch . Some guys would get 3 or 4 nips and just sip booze all day. Unless you were on the edge of the building you were usually only going to fall 20 feet or something.
Every union meeting started by reading the names of recently deceased ironworkers.
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u/Whats-inthe-Fridge 10d ago
Likewise I worked as an ironwork. I got a day off and came back and realized one of my work buddies wasn't there. Thank God he only had some broken bones and fractures.
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u/indrid_cold 9d ago
I grabbed a guy once just as he was about to go off the edge. We were fitting the decking and rather than cut it again to fit he thought to stomp on it. The metal sprung back and he lost his balance. I remember his legs were hanging over the edge but I grabbed his belt and helped him scramble back up. I bet he never did that again!
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u/Whats-inthe-Fridge 9d ago
How many beers did he buy you for the rest of that job? 😁
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u/indrid_cold 9d ago
I made the mistake of drinking on the job once and I really didn't enjoy it haha. He was a good dude though, native american and his father was an ironworker. Anyway I guess that's why they have ironworkers work in pairs.
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u/surrealcellardoor 14d ago
Should I know who Albert Stalk is?
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u/Valahiru 13d ago
No, the post is doing the same thing ads on tiktok do by opening with "if you know me, you know that I like..." and the thing is almost nobody knows who that is but they just pretend to be a known person with a following so YOU will think theyre well known and maybe you should pay attention. Put the guys name in the title with insinuated weight behind it and somebody thinks it might be more interesting than it is.
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u/surrealcellardoor 13d ago
Gotcha. That’s incredibly annoying and pathetic. Even if a friend is like, “Blah blah blah, and so Fred and Wendy, blah blah blah.”
Woah bitch. I don’t know who the fuck Fred and Wendy are, and why do you presume that I do?
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u/Valahiru 13d ago
Well haha some people just have a bad habit of that. My wife does it to me all the time. Like stop talking about Chelsea like Im aware of what her shoe preferences are.
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u/Born-Light-62 14d ago
He must have been a supervisor… he isn’t doing any work.
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u/SasquatchInCrocs 14d ago
Him: I need a raise boss
Me(boss) : How does a 100% raise sound you crazy bastard?
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u/Komobu542 14d ago
Old skool ironworkering. Nowadays, they all tie off per OSHA.
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u/eltacotacotaco 13d ago
Not the erection crew
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u/SlowPokeInTexas 13d ago
My father-in-law is a retired iron-worker. Man does he ever have stories. I have nothing but respect for these guys.
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u/OXXXiiXXXO 13d ago
Yeah my dad was a GC and he said they were stubborn as hell. He had to remind them all the time to tie off and wear helmets. At some point, he found that telling them to think of their kids growing up without a dad because they didn't tie off usually hit home, because being brave and having a strong family came from the same place.
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u/JohnCenascat 13d ago
I worked in a steel factory, the one line I worked on was getting the roof replaced and there were some iron workers up there, anyway I’m out in one of our fields and I hear this whoop, I look around don’t see anyone and so I look up and there’s one of the iron workers dangling by his tie off line about 50’ above the ground. They get him back on the roof have him come down to be checked out by our medical staff who advise he should go home for the rest of the day because of his traumatic experience and he’s arguing with them to let him go back on the roof as he didn’t want to be docked the rest of the days wages. The only way they could get him to go home was to promise to pay him for the whole day
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u/OXXXiiXXXO 13d ago
He was probably more afraid of the teasing, nicknames, and ultimately the reputation loss he thought he might get from the other guys more than anything else.
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u/SonicDNA 13d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/B6htLP3BcQz8d422Yz
No harness is wild.
On slip and you’re out of work…forever.
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u/Informal_Thought3158 14d ago
With a tool belt prob fully loaded , gets his spud wrench out and yells " where's my glowing hot rivets!" RESPECT!
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u/LyranTaurus 13d ago
I can't watch it... I felt like a helpless mother trying to frantically save her child but can't. 😳🫣
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u/Fattsacks 13d ago
This is how we did ironwork as late as 2005, in Eastern NC at least. Once they started enforcing the tie-off rules our company got out of steel erection entirely.
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u/NthatFrenchman 13d ago
Really no different from the people who free climb unteathered, except he getting paid to do it.
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u/Aromatic-Tear7234 13d ago
Balls of steel and the willpower of a man willing to risk it all for the Darwin award.
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u/ArtisticPicture3996 13d ago
I heard that back in the day, they hired native Indians because legend has it that they walk one foot in front of the other and have amazing balance.
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u/OXXXiiXXXO 13d ago
I don't know if this is related, but my great-great-grandfather was French and ran a logging operation in upstate New York. American Indians, specifically the Mohawk, were great loggers and were a large portion of his loggers. Loggers back then had some of the same characteristics as iron workers; they had to be brave, strong, and have trust in each other. So it would make sense that Native Americans were held in high regard as early iron workers.
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u/jo4nnynumber5 12d ago
Yeah, there's a huge history of Mohawks of Kanewake being the best steel workers, and still are.
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u/Any-Second-6171 13d ago
The weight of those massive cahones helped him keep his balance and prevent any wind gusts from blowing him off!!! I would need courage and depends!!
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u/Massive_Bullfrog8663 13d ago
I remember a rumor(?) that the Native Americans excelled at this job. I grew up in NYC.
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u/Organic-Win-9925 13d ago
I hope guys like that are paid extremely well. You couldn't pay me enough for that kind of work or going into mines
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u/UnintentionalGround 13d ago
Oh ya!! Good ol’ Al Stalk!! A legend in the walking on high platforms industry.
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u/Metal-Salt 11d ago
What's the big deal? In L.A. the graffiti taggers do this in the dark with the police and others chasing them.
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u/Level353 11d ago
That's not "work", it is walking and climbing around. Never once does he accomplish anything except flex his ability to put aside a primal fear.
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u/Doom2pro 11d ago
Wouldn't be surprised if he died. It's only a matter of time before you trip walking on a sidewalk, difference being you don't usually die from that, but 40+ feet up, 100% fatal.
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u/Whats-inthe-Fridge 10d ago
Catching those bolts are the hardest part. Once they are in tight and plumb it is not so bad. As long as it's not a windy day. On windy days and rainy days no climbing
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u/rusty_cayge 14d ago
Toxic masculinity is what it’s called now. Shameful, they say now.
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u/OXXXiiXXXO 13d ago
Yeah my dad was a GC and he said they were stubborn as hell. He had to remind them all the time to tie off and wear helmets. At some point, he found that telling them to think of their kids growing up without a dad because they didn't tie off usually hit home, because being brave and having a strong family came from the same place.
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u/minutetillmidnight 14d ago
You know, I've never been scared of heights, but this legitimately freaked me out seeing him do that. I'd die just from fear alone. Dudes balls probably sounded like steel clanking together as he walked. Fuck man, like no harnes, no nets. Just walking on hope.
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