👹📉🌎 45,000 Dock Workers From Maine to Texas Go on Strike — Nation Braces for Inflation Spike and Supply Chain Chaos — Experts Warn U.S. Faces $5 Billion Loss a Day 👹📉🌎
(www.thegatewaypundit.com)
💸 ECON COLLAPSE ⌛️
That's not dangerous compared to roofing, where 60 deaths per year per 100k occur.
I'd be willing to wager money that those longshoremem deaths are mostly avoidable with common sense.
Would love a deep dive into how they died.
A roofer is super aware everyday they go to work that they can die that day.
Doubt those longshoremen go into work thinking the same.
Roofing sucks and I agree is dangerous, but to try and discount longshoreman jobs, is beyond clownish.
You obviously helped out 1 summer on the roof. That doesn't mean you have any idea just what you were dealing with.
Longshoremen jobs is not dangerous. Obviously, as a roofer, my idea of dangerous and yours is a world apart.
One summer on a roof working 11/12, and 12/12 pitches was enough for me to say nah fuck that.
If you did work a 45 degree as a first time summer?
Damn, impressive.
My hat is off to you and up voted!
I climbed 45 into my early 30's then got top heavy and couldn't. I know a few guys in their 60's that still climb without safety, a 45.
Interesting tidbit about first trump assassination and my views as a roofer.
In roofing, we call slopes either low slope or steep slope.
Low slope ends at 2:12.
Above that is steep slope.
It actually is about the way water reacts to steepness. Without getting too technical, water either sheds or does not.
Below 2:12, water will not run off a roof, it will penetrative from the roof to the interior of the structure. At below 2:12, you are now making what us oldies call, a bathtub.
Anyway,
You can literally play flag football on a 2:12 slope. Not dangerous as all as far as steepness, but our technical definition of steep starts at 9.46 degrees.
My thought as a roofer?
Somebody at secret service asked someone in the trades if that 2:12 to 3:12 roof (what it looks like from pics to me) was considered steep and they replied, yes it is.
Lol
Lastly, the most dangerous roofs are actually flat imo. Guys climbing tall ladders, falling through holes or walking backwards off the roof.
It is crazy the danger that comfort and a feeling of safe creates.
About 6 months ago, my older brother asked me to do a second look and it required a 2 story ladder climb. He ran up ladder, then I turtled up that ladder, making super sure of 3 steady points at all times.
He was like, wtf little brother.
Are you OK, you've done this thousands of times. I replied, yeah, but today will be the day, if it doesn't done perfectly.
I am a big believer of safety monitors on the roof. A lot of roofers hate it because it costs a lot and you have somebody barking at you, but it does save lives.
I'm not a roofer, but I know 2 guys who fell off roofs with serious injuries. One was pronounced dead, but somehow was recovered.
Hell, I almost fell off a roof and I wasn't even roofing, just looking.