Bravery
posted by Paul
Remember this post of construction work being done at Tyger Falls? For today's post I snapped some shots of guys, at the same site, erecting a crane. The process was awesome to watch - especially in the notoriously windy and wet Cape Town weather. Can you imagine standing on the edge of this crane like the two men in the photo were doing? Even though I could see that they were wearing harnesses - I'm not sure that it's something I would do in windy Cape Town ;).
As you can see, the orange crane is assembled using a portable crane. I tracked the portable crane's owner down by virtue of their name printed on the rig. Take a peek at the gallery on Target Crane's website - they have some truly remarkable vehicles.
Click on the photo if you'd like to see a larger version.





7 Comments:
The greatest realizations we not only owe her to the mathematical calculations of the engineers, but also to the courage of these men...
Ciao dall' Italia
I hope they get paid a lot of money...
On one of your photos, I can read "Potain", well known in France too. Thank you for your words on my blog. I hope you'll be able to take some days off after you've been working so hard these last days...
Some of the highest wages in the world are paid to Mohawk Indians who are famous for their high steel work.
Nice photos.
I have 1 baby raccoon today and a pile of poop!
Brookville Daily Photo
I've just discovered your site - it's great! Am definitely going to be checking in every day... I am a Capetonian living in Auckland, NZ. cheers Kath
Brave doesn't even begin to describe them....!! you couldn't pay me enough to get up there.
Blueroad, you're absolutely right. I often think that we don't appreciate our construction (and similar) workers enough - without them our world would not be possible.
Steve, I doubt it. We have very high rates of unemployment in SA, and so unskilled and semi-skilled workers don't earn that much - the great majority of our people don't have the luxury of picking and choosing what jobs they take on. I must mention that we do have very labour-friendly labour laws though.
Kath, welcome!
I actually love heights (think I may have mentioned this before), so they wouldn't have to even pay me to go up there. :)
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