And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Amazing that the steel was still warm after traveling from practically the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. To think of the industrial might that has been allowed to fade away . .. . . . the steel making, the railroads . . . USA now a ghost of what we were only 100 years ago.
These massive castings were apparently shipped by rail from York, PA from the factory on the Delware River https://yorkblog.com/yorkspast/innovations-s-morgan-smith-co/
Lovely; nobody tied-off, and it appears that others are under a suspended load.
ReplyDeleteAt least they all have their (hard) hats on
DeleteBecause they were competent in their work and workers.
DeleteAmazing how we built the Empire State Building, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Hoover Dam, all without any help from OSHA.
DeleteSteel for the Empire State Building arrived warm from Pittsburgh
DeleteAmazing that the steel was still warm after traveling from practically the Ohio-Pennsylvania border. To think of the industrial might that has been allowed to fade away . .. . . . the steel making, the railroads . . . USA now a ghost of what we were only 100 years ago.
DeleteThese massive castings were apparently shipped by rail from York, PA from the factory on the Delware River https://yorkblog.com/yorkspast/innovations-s-morgan-smith-co/
And yet somehow despite NO OSHA they managed to build things we DEPEND ON TODAY to keep the water-sewer and power grid going.
ReplyDeleteAND we're running out of their SON'S now older men who are retiring or dying in the saddle keeping things going.
Welcome to the "Woke" Dark Ages.
Be afraid, very afraid!
DeleteDiablo Dam Powerhouse, upper Skagit River, Washington.
ReplyDeleteDam completed in 1930, power generation began in 1936.
"The dam and its original associated power generation infrastructure were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989."
And you just know, at some point, someone will need to get a big hammer to "give it tap into place."
ReplyDeleteDon't look like they were done on a computer 3D printer
ReplyDeleteOmg, not following dei, it’ll never work….
ReplyDeleteHow'd they get all that stuff done back then with no wimminz and negro's getting in the way and complaining?
ReplyDelete---yeah- and 3 guys have their hats on backards!!
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