Like I have said several times, "check out the hats that everyone is wearing and not a hard hat in the house!
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Like I have said several times, "check out the hats that everyone is wearing and not a hard hat in the house!
I agree totally!
I looks like they are starting to disassemble a temporary rail track that was used to move in, or move out a big casting that needs replaced or repaired. The track base is built up with wooden sleepers and then I-beam sleepers, probably to raise the tracks high enough to clear existing tracks?
perhaps those are custom hard hats..that look like reg hats...like the bronze dipped shews..or the osha guy dosent come till saturday.
Pig bed workers at the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.
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Pig bed made up ready to receive molten iron. Molten iron from the main runner flows at right angles into a smaller trough known was the ‘sow.’ From the ‘sow’ the molten iron flows into the individual molds known as ‘Pigs.’ Hence, the term: ‘Pig Iron.’
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Those 5 men standing there in short sleeved shirts, regular shoes and no hard hats are the kind of "IRON" men than built this country. (Insert any country name there)
The writing above the furnace hearth door. "Pirigo"sp (Danger?) "Lentida" sp (Slow?) from Portuguese. Pretty obscure for a warning sign
hmm...so...if they were pouring some bell shaped stuff they would be pouring cowbells!!!
Workers making a 70-ton waterwheel shaft. Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation. Homestead, PA. 1945.
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heck just watching them make the steel for that would be awesome. it's truly amazing what we used to be abler to make before we had the 9002iso&whatnot bs qc came about.witch is like the carfox...used for selling nothing more.