[dhalltoyo]

Wow!

A potential 120 foot fall. I could only imagine.

I was an Operating Engineer with Brown and Root.

My main assignment was heavy lifts.

One day my oiler didn't show for work and the jib pulley needed some lubrication. The crane was set in such a position that it couldn't be boomed down to perform this operation. We were hooked onto a section of bridge that was going to moved so a power plant discharge channel could be dredged. The crane had a ringer track around the base with a million pound counterbalance.

Up the mast I went. 300 feet. Never again!