I think the principle of the job was probably very much the same. It was a hazardous job in very many ways. My grandfather lost one of his fingers in moving parts while he was trying to do a repair. And my father had a bridge fall on top of him. He was trying to wrap a cable around an old section of bridge decking that he needed to remove when it came crashing down. He was very lucky to survive. Both of them suffered from arthritis and plenty of aches and pains. They worked outdoors in extreme cold temperatures many
winters. And those old cranes had no heaters and no doors.to keep the weather out. I remember when they would be working on bridges often the crane would be on a barge out in the middle of the water, and there would be a rope and a pulley and they would have to pull themselves hand over hand in a little bucket contraption to get out to the barge in the morning and get off the barge at night. I hope you didn't have to look up too many words here 🤔and bravo to your crane operators. It is hard work.