• Fibby@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    So the operator box caught fire while the operator was in there? Luckily he got out but holy fuck that would be scary.

    I could never do that job. Its not just the fear of heights. Its the fear of any of the catastrophic failures that could happen.

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      1 year ago

      It’s always struck me as one of the best jobs in construction (not too hard on the body), but also always seemed like something that you needed to have balls of steel for.

      I could never do it. 20 story balconies are too high for me and I’ve got a solid building under me and 2 feet planted on something solid. Doesn’t help that so many movies have people falling of cranes

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      1 year ago

      It pays really well, all you need is your commercial driver’s license, you take a 3 month course that costs a couple grand and then it’s a cool 100k+ per year and usually if you can get a permanent position you get LOA

      But yeah the reasons you listed are why it’s so high paying lol

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    1 year ago

    So that’s what happened. I saw smoke rising earlier on the NYC_Timescape twitch stream. Figured I’d learn about it in the news eventually.