Check this guy out out New york Manhatten … Maybe he needs a boab ???.. [video=youtube_share;2lCOi_OzQHY]Patrick Shields Window Cleaning / Window Washing 3 New York City Midtown airshaft. - YouTube
****ing Nuts!
All that risk… and they dont even have a view.
magic video !
A room with a view …
of another room
That guy really needs a bucket on a belt!
People ask me why although I only live a few miles from Manhattan but dont service it…
This is exactly why
His strip washer should be connected to him so he doesn’t kill a baby down below, balls of steel, brains of mush.
Wow
Looks like he’s hooked in though.
I’ve done Beltwork… it sucks.
The bitch of it is, the jobs that usually are set up for it… are typically the [B][U]oldest[/U][/B],most [U][B]decrepit[/B][/U] buildings around!
That plus there’s always some enterprising construction guy, who didn’t like the look of the metal plate that anchors the other end of the belt-hook and sheared it off , leaving a death-trap behind. On a well maintained building, I don’t mind belt work, although it’s kind a hard on the back . Usually it’s still done , only on the old buildings with the extremely large overhangs , where chair work is even harder
Pardon my lack of knowledge on doing dumb isht, but what exactly is he hooking into?
When I started in the 70’s most older buildings were like that. The "pins’ were supposed to be re- certified every 5 years. You were supposed to be hooked up on at least one side at all times and were not to transfer between windows on the outside. Times have certinaly changed!!!
you guys getting 5/pane for that work?
Whats called a belt hook, Its a bolt that runs thru the wall and is anchored by a large plate on the inside. You wear a special belt called an Aker & Mann (spelling, possibly Akermann) belt. The one I have is about 40 years old, Its made of leather like a horse collar with ropes threaded thru it so tha when you hook on to the bolts it supports your weight. What you are supposed to do is hook to one climb out the window , hook to the other one and while standing on the sill wash the upper sash, then lean back letting the belt support your weight and bend your knees and wash the bottom sash. It was the most common way to wash windows in the NEast until the invention of air-conditioning, when they didn’t need windows that opened any more The Empire State Building was (maybe still is) done like this.
Yep, really hard on the back. The Penobscot building in downtown Detroit has them on all 48 floors!!!
nuckin futs
there surely must be or could be an invention which can clean these windows safer and easier…
i´ll get onto to Herman
whats need is a telescope pole : " ULTRA LIGHT " .that is similar to PRO CURVE . but with a much more accenuated Curve… one can open the window and with the aid of the curve work from within the Building… its not 100 % needed to risk you life like this or am i missing something ?
