Back when yhe white man could be a white man

Amen.

Put up a sign outside a building saying "No Pissing" and you will get people queuing up to do it 🤪🥃

When men were men.

When asbestos was practically food.

in 1945 it was hit by a B-25 bomber lost in fog. The ESB didn't even wince.

@@Only-one-life-68 I'm an eye-witness to the 911 attacks on the WTC. If you are one of those 911 'truther' lunatics, please just go away.

@@MrSloika Now I think we can all agree on that.

@@Only-one-life-68 its a giantic different between a B 25 and a big modern passanger plane

@@Only-one-life-68 that 911 thing i m still makeing my mind up over it.

they can't even repave a small section of highway in months let alone this! So much more red tape and bureaucrat yap yap now days.

I would like to see proof of this lmpossible time line!

@@jonyoder2356 it’s greed

BS

Analogue means reliability

Lmao….they didn’t build it

@@bigdaddyjim9135 Silly me, I forgot it came in a box from the aliens along with the pyramids 😉

@@bigdaddyjim9135dumbass

Agreed the video is amazing

these men were kings

Looool right!!

Ya. But we know how to fake a moon landing.

Pause and think on this: 1830 - 1930. 100 years. 1730 - 1830. Lewis & Clark 1830-33 went up the Missouri to Pacific. 1830 in Europe marked end of feudalism. Tenant land workers had to pay title or quit land. Suddenly impoverished they went to city factories. Population bourgeoning and city poverty sent them to America.

Except for back in the early 1900s they did have computers not like we do today but they had computers that would calculate numbers and things

@@howieduin915 be serious bro.

It’s really mind boggling this was done in the 1930’s. I’ve been a registered architect almost 35 years and I don’t think we have the where with all to do this today...

aedeen irish names Yes too much i. t. /d mind etc today Not practical as was but Hope brian Ireland Happy Christmas

What's sad is that in this day young "men" don't even know if they are a man, a woman, a broomstick, they just don't know. However what they DO know is that anyone that works and makes a decent wage is BAD and they should be taxed 85% of their earnings because the people that choose to not work need money too! All young men should be forced to take a class in school that lasts the entire year doing only manual labor and trades as it might shape them into what a man actually is and teaches them very valuable information that is becoming a lost talent.

The funny thing is skyscrapers were a new thing

@@michaeljohn9263 why just men? I personally think a couple years of military or community service for young adults would be huge. If they are going to give away free college they should add this stipulation.

As a structural engineer myself I can only echo your sentiments. An amazing achievement. I would love to see the calculations..

Well,i am an ironworker! Raising gang entire career!

Yeah this is a cool video. What a beautiful building. Built when men were men! Hahahahaha what’s funny is about halfway through I started thinking how fearless they were with no safety ropes or anything, and I thought wonder if any of them are even wearing harhats, so I started looking. Hell no!!! Hahahahaha almost every guy is wearing a hat of some kind! You got your fedoras and little hockey caps and shit, but not a damn hardhat in site nowhere!! Hahahahaha I love it! I hate wearing those things!! Ever seen the famous picture where a bunch of em are sitting on a beam eating lunch? Crazy bastards!! Hahahahaha

@@alextomlinson1725 You can safely (!) bet there is a lot of redundancy incorporated.

@@lwoods7283 hats off to you sir - total respect.

A proud heritage ,well done.

Yeah but do you live in NYC?

The planning and logistics that went into the ESB were *amazing.* Pretty much everything was pre-tested to make sure it would fit properly on installation, and deliveries etc. were scheduled to keep waiting times down to near zero. Today it takes forever just to assemble a kids' sandbox! P.S. "never mind" is two words. "Nevermind" was that Kurt Cobain album ... 😁

Yes sir Amazon indeed

@@williamgallucci9913 👍👍👍

I have seen that exact photo AND Video !! CRAZY people..... but nothing to them... everyday work !! Makes my palms and feet sweat just to watch it !!! The Native American Indians had a large group of Ironworkers doing this also !

$3.94/hr. was the going wage for those High Walkers!

God bless your grandfather and all those brave and wonderful men who built this great country! 🙏🇺🇸🌹

@@oldsaerotech1167 4 dollars a day not an hour. Thats what guys were making in the 60s. They were not making that in the 1930s

@@slippy11ful The overall average for the construction workers building the Empire State Building was $15/day. The "airtreaders" or "skyboys" made $3.94/hr. They averaged 4.5 stories per week. The Empire State Building was constructed in 13 months.

92 years is nothing

@@makadoz exactly such a short time. If large structures can’t last for at-least 400 years it’s not strong enough.

Yeah nearly as long as the Acropolis.

My grandma is still standing after 92 years

It was built to last for centuries. This is a direct quote from an engineering analysis of its construction: Skyscrapers constructed after the 1930s were made of concrete reinforced with steel, as opposed to just steel, which gave them the tensile strength of steel and the compressive strength of rock. They can resist both stretching and squeezing forces. The earliest steel skyscrapers, like the Empire State Building, which date from the 1930s are least likely to remain standing in 7,000 years because they are constructed almost exclusively of steel, meaning they have exceptional tensile strength but are quite rigid and inflexible.

Very interesting, T you. 😊

Thank you for taking the time to explain why riveting is so much better in steel framing methods.👍

@@LouisAloi my pleasure. 🫶🏻

Thanks for that info, although retired post office worker,always liked wood and steel. I came back to this for ur comment on rivet vs welds and I thank you...

Construction workers in general earn that money especially the Ironworkers. Very dangerous job, even when you're tied off with safety measures.

We would call riding the ball Live bait on the hook

Glad you enjoyed it!

Repent to Jesus Christ! “he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.” ‭‭Psalms‬ ‭23:3‬ ‭NIV‬‬ Drrrr

You’ve been duped….. our humanity didn’t build that structure…..another way more advanced civilization did

Incredible incredible what these men accomplished from beginning to end wow

And their women were proud of them; not in competition.

That I'm sure they were

Five of them died,...RIP

Built in 13 months....rubbish !....all i see is doctored footage....look closer

Please, no conspiracy nonsense. The construction timeline of ESB has been documented in multiple contemporary references, not just here.

Computers killed architecture and design.

Architects now design things that are not thought of in the real world only computer models. I know I did a lot of custom work and it’s nuts how they are clueless about materials and how they behave.

A lot less Gov regulations and non-union labor force made that possible! Those iron workers had balls of steel, they built the modern world, todays snow flakes would shit themselves doing that kind of work!

Didn't they deliver 1 beam every minute of the day ???

I love your word "choreographed," which captures beautifully so much of what was involved in the building of this incredible structure.

LMFAO !!

I'll bet he had some stories to tell.

Those were REAL men when America was REAL..🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏

Hard times creates strong men, strong men creates easy times, easy times creates weak men, weak men create hard times. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Had a 'working at height job' in London. Took 5 months to organise permit, organise site access (it was an underground car park), exchange Method Statements, COSH Sheets, Hot Works certificate etc etc. Job was 9 feet off the ground and took us 15 minutes to carry out the repair. Facts.

I've worked in the Empire State Building many years ago when I was an installer for New York Telephone. Getting into places where there isn't plaster and offices you get to see the super structure of beams. Later in the 1970's I worked at the World Trade Center site during the last phases of construction. We'd hang out on the upper floors where the glass wasn't installed yet. I compared the construction from the ESB and could see how different they were. The ESB had columns everywhere. That was typical for the time. I'd worked in the Woolworth Building, New York Life and Metropolitan Life buildings and they were the same. Planning space was difficult because of them, Odd shaped offices and columns in a corner were the norm. But not the WTC. The floors were wide open without columns. Everything, the stairs, elevators, rest rooms, electrical equipment were all in the central core. The telephone equipment was in the corners. There were nearly 800 rooms in the two towers. The telephone central office was on the 10th floor of one of the towers. There were 400 pairs of wires available on each floor with cabling running from corner to corner. There was only one source for telephone equipment in those days so everything was common to all customers. Today the customers own their own equipment so it has to be on their premises. As I watched the towers come down before we knew how many had died I thought about the millions of man hours used to create the whole complex. All destroyed in just a couple of hours. The loss of life could have been greater. It was too early when the planes struck. Commuters were still on the subway coming in from the boroughs, New Jersey and Connecticut. Before the recession caused by OPEC we had almost 100,000 people in the buildings. I don't think a huge loss of lives was the terrorists' objective. It was the buildings themselves and what they represented, American strength and power. Like the Japanese in 1941 they'd awakened a giant and felt its resolve to avenge this insult. They had accomplished something no enemy had ever done. An attack on American soil and it was their undoing.

Very good points, Mike in stereo. My very favourite construction is still the Eiffel Tower ! As I recall, the brief was that it had to last for 12 months... The designers/workers decided it would be best to aim for at least a couple of years... The rest is history ! Imagine now, with CAD, blah blah, Microsoft bullshit and virtual fu*king whatever, - If the brief was 12 months, IT WOULD HAVE HAD TO BE TAKEN DOWN IN 13... Max. Please bring back a world where Experience and Common Sense is king, and Esential Safety Equipment is a Flat Cap and some Flip-Flops.

@@robertcuminale1212 I must say the West is losing appeal and political power since then. We indulged too much in the last half century on our comfort lives and other civilization, simple implementing our discoveries, are quite more resolute to conquer or challenge us. We westerners are of good heart. What we did in Vietnam or ww2 were nothing compared to the brutality of some chiefs and their supporters in other places. The 9/11 is still searching for a revenge.

If you build skyscrapers like I do in New York City you would know that these buildings are still built the same way… my grandfather helped build this project and now I am retiring and my son is getting ready to be the next generation of building skyscrapers.. I helped build the freedom tower and it’s not bloated construction or any incompetence ..when they built this building they lost one man per floor on an average we didn’t lose anybody building the freedom tower… thanks to job safety and certifications these jobs are much safer..

@StereoMike06 Compared to the Expobuildings, Not so beautyful! Just tall

It wasn’t done by these men….another civilization built it

That is wonderful!

@@donnaleighjenkins4952 Well, thank you, Donna. My very best wishes, John...

Not a cellphone in sight, people just living in the moment

Sure. 😂

Thanks! My pleasure.

Very true.

So true

Five.

Yeah only 5.

yeah only 5@@Slithey7433

@@Cynocehali that's within a 13 month period (5). A total of 3400 throughout the construction.

@@eddyrosado2885 3,400 men worked on the construction. 5 died.

Yes.. thank you all 🙏

Sad thing no one will remember them

​@@anonymous-vy8lztheir kids do

That's something to be proud of.

He was very good that building still strands today 😊

Te felicito....

Great yr grand father

There's a difference between building and helping build

My Dad would come home from WORK and blow the Black soot out in the wash basin, lather up, rinse,get a baseball MIT and yell at my brother and I for a game of catch, did't skip a beat, mother had beans on the stove and yelled for Dinner and we made it......WTF is wrong with that,? today it's thumbs on the Phone and Losers trying to make a point by shooting up Schools, no Family , Abortions, and Question your Genitals......Ha!

There's still people like that left in the world, far and few but some are still around

Agreed! Native Navajos were employed on many high rises due to their inherent lack of fear regarding heights. Great video of American achievement.

Too many men today, cannot even put a nail in the wall. They work in front of a computer all day. That muscles accuracy, the waistline gets larger and larger as time goes on. Men today, or bit too soft

@@fasteddie4107 you won't correct many American Indians were, considered to the be the best ironworkers in the country

Yes, very true..an amazing feat.💪

Dont forget the many million people who work hard today for feeding their familys around the World.

@@borntoclimb7116 Not forgetting them, either. I am one of them. Lots of good People today. And lots of very hard-working, conscientious, high-character People everywhere. I'm just saying. Things are very different, and the men of that generation were built differently than us.

@@jimmyz2098 thats right

And the machinery back then wow

These would have been the 'Foremen' or 'Chargehands'. In GB they would always wear a bowler hat.

Is it still retained today?

I have a slide rule! I am 57 yes old though 🤫🙂

I’m 60 years old, we used those in school when I was a kid. I trust the slide ruler more than I do computers. Slide rulers don’t crash and can’t be hacked.

And no safety equipments

This is precisely why the ESB still stands today. Engineering has become the science of design to minimum standard.

I used slide rules

You should take a video of it with your smart phone and put it on the internet that be cool

I'd love to see it. Is the house in Queens? Brooklyn?

You'd be surprise how a Great Depression instills a great work ethic in starving people.🤣😂

try to keep it clean, thank u

Well said!

You were lied to…..unless she lived hundreds of years ago. We didn’t have the technology to build this structure

@@bigdaddyjim9135 I was not lied to, I am 80 years old, when my grandmother told me the story that you work there across the street, she was already in her, late 70s at the time. So yes it was well over 100 years ago, but she told me this story. You should never say somebody was lied to, when you don't know what you're talkin about.

@@americanspirit8932 then call it what you want….. fact is our humanity DID NOT build that building…. WE were lied to. We were ALL lied to…. I apologize about my statement regarding your Grand Ma. I shouldn’t have said that.

@@bigdaddyjim9135Where did you get your structural engineering degree? Saying "I refuse to believe ..." isn't proof, no matter how many times you repeat it.

You asking about a degree says everything about you and your path.@@Poisson4147

How old are you might I ask?

@@Anonymous-lv1jm My guess is he was born around 1941?

not one black. so much for their claim of "building America"

Yes...but I wonder how they made their living when the project was finished....the Depression saw unemployment rates of 20-25%...and construction slowed down very much as the thirties progressed--a very tough time for most Americans.

@@curbozerboomer1773 that's why they deserved all the respect in the world because they were building it in such a difficult time.

It's not insane if you're at all familiar with the history of construction. 1930 may be almost a century ago but it wasn't the stone age either. A lot of people alive today are only a lifetime or two removed. In fact some types of heavy machinery date WAY back - even the ancient Greeks had simple cranes that could lift up to maybe 150 kg. Of course early machinery used muscle power (human or horses) but by the 19th C. they had steam motors. There are amazing pictures of things like the Transcontinental RR, the Suez and Panama Canals, and the Brooklyn Bridge being built. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mt-Tnq9nrduwgok.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a596aMSInMXeiJ8.html The first skyscrapers were built in the 1880s which puts the ESB almost half a century later. The tech was really solid by that point, but still pretty amazing given how much of it was pretty much just pencil, paper, and mechanical calculators. Why I've read is that the planners worked out *everything* in advance, with well-scheduled logistics that had materials effectively going from delivery to installation almost immediately. IMHO we don't give nearly enough credit to what our immediate ancestors were able to accomplish!

Its astounding really

It's all been shipped to China there are very few real men left in the USA to do this kind of work.

@@user-em7lp1sb4kThat’s sad but true. 😞 liberalism has Destroyed our country.

​@@user-em7lp1sb4kChinamen built rails not hi rise

White people settled America. 3rd world immigrants pour in here.

Well said sir!

Oh please, why make a reference to a fictional beast like King Kong...

​​@@Rick88888888 Why not? The original film came out just 2 years after the building was completed and is forever linked with its legacy. The classic film served as welcome PR for the building; visitation increased considerably after KING KONG was released in March, 1933. The 85th floor is dedicated to Kong, and when Fay Wray died the building's lights went dark for 15 minutes in her honor.

Don't forget the military B-25 bomber that crashed into the 79th floor in 1945

@@Rick88888888 because the building is synonymous with king Kong. Its legacy is that it's a strong building even when Kong climbs it. Fictional or not, the building will forever be known with Kong. No different than Japan being known for Godzilla... fiction with a purpose.

Lollol

Hahaaha

You should be proud. 👍

Ha yes you are so right

OSHA people are not real men! There pansies!!

Yeah, like riding that ball on the crane lead ??!!

🤣

lol I was thinking the same thing watching guys walk under heavy loads of steel etc lol . Those were hard working men

It's incredible! And if only they could have known that they helped to create one of the world's most recognisable buildings 🌁

They scream to the World--THIS IS AMERICA'.

CHRYSLER IS A CAR,. IT IS NOTTE THEM EMPIRES SLATES BILDINBGES. THEY BEE 2 DIOFFERNT THINGES. EMPRIE STABE BUILDIGN IS NOT ON WHEELES!!!!

Its awe imspiring

I wouldn't even know where to start,lol

It's not as difficult as it looks

@@DaleSteel please, have you been in New York? This was 1930 no heavy lift machines, no heavy trucks, tools are not even close to today’s tools, no fast transportation for the builders workers to get to the job site on time, no other building like it to use as reference, and all this in Manhattan, surrounded by buildings making no extra space to store construction materials.

@@zabamaz103 are you mad. There's a crain and yes I've been to nyc

If it literally blows your mind you would be dead....

Usually, when things are put together with rivets, the initial holes are slightly undersized, then are drilled or reamed to size during fit up , e.g. with what’s called a bridge reamer (for larger hot-rivets, like those in the vid.) The hole is normally a trifle larger than the shank of the rivet, e.g. for a 1/8 inch aircraft rivet, the nominal drill size is a #30, or decimal 0.128. The rivet, when “bucked” will swell slightly to fill the hole. This is more the case with hot-rivets than the ones used in aircraft.

Shows how much can get without regulatory agencies getting in the way

@@NUMENOREAN91 thank god for safety agencies protecting workers lives. Theyre not called blood laws for no reason.

Just a small correction, it was finished in1931.

248 bucks a day. Nice. They earned it

@@slippy11ful There's probably a happy medium

I’m sure they wanted better working conditions but for the tight fisted and belligerent bosses they worked bloody hard for.. bless ‘em 😇

A Masterpiece x

no ear or eye protection either

One word: Engineering !

@@gary6449 one word with thousands of concepts, planning, drafting, testing of materials etc. within a time limit behind it. I wouldn't be able to hang with that. i mean if the engineer/ architect told me that my job was to go tighten some bolts all day, idtbe cool wth it...but imagine being the guy running the show. ☠️

Psy-Stabil for anxiety. Not medical advice

@@wtcwtc9861 not sure what that is dog