Completed about a year ago the Aizhai Bridge in the Hunan Province of China is the world's longest (3,858') and highest (1102') suspension bridge.
Quite a construction feat.
Here's a pic that the article I read was comparing the modern technology of the bridge to the centuries-old broom corn the fella was using to sweep up for a final inspection.
I'm thinkin' he needed to be tied off somehow. I guess there's probably no OSHA in the Hunan.
Makes me weak at the knees just to look.....
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He's got his hardhat and gloves on, what else could he possibly need?
Andy
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Now, that bridge sweeper job probably does not pay enough to include safety equipment. And, there are 5 more waiting to take his job. The hardhat and gloves were borrowed for the the pic.
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no OSHA, no FAA, no nada.
i was in china as a college student in '93 and have two distinct memories:
first, going to a playground in beijing and watching toddlers climb and come down a playground slide that was every bit of 4 stories tall. not an enclosed slide, just one of those old-style metal, half round deals. 40 feet tall, minimum.
second, probably the most terrifying experience of my life, to this day (and i've jumped out of a couple of airplanes since): taking a flight from xian to shanghai on a domestic airline. it was an aeroflot plane, the seats reminded me of something you might find in a toyota tercel or a le car. they overbooked the flight. there were- no schite- half a dozen people in lawn chairs in the back of the plane, sitting in the aisle. it was about a 4 hour flight, iirc, and as we neared shanghai i looked out the window and saw another plane flying alongside us at a rather suprisingly close distance- so much so that i probably could have effectively communicated with a passenger on that flight if we'd both known sign language. the worst part was the anticipation of arrival- looking out the window and wondering when we'd start our descent, seeing a massive metropolitan area at the bottom of the field of view of the window, wondering what city it was, then 10 minutes later landing in it after the pilot decided to pull out his top gun skills and take us from 30K feet to sea level faster than gravity would.
but yeah, it's staggering what gets done over there. scale is everything...
That is a new broom and they are the best. We use one at home like that.
You are right, the design has not changed in probably a few centuries.
That picture probably explains why the best acrobats come from China.
Spend all that effort on building a nice new bridge, then folks drive the wrong way on it!
A steelworker friend of mine claimed being "tied-off" was more dangerous than walking un-tethered......as for me, I would need LOTS of rope..tied to everything possible.
Who am I kidding....I'd NEVER do that job..
Why in the world would you need to sweep off all of that steel?
Lighting looks like photoshop to me.
If he falls off couldn't he just ride the broom down? I mean you can't be tied off if yer gonna do that.
