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  • Friday, March 05, 2010

    Funny message on the toping out beam


    So we toped out (symbolically erected the last iron member) the today on my project and as is the ceremony for such an occasion the beam is painted white and the hands on the job sign it. As it is a hospital they were having the staff sign it (I think it is breaking with tradition a little and selling out the Ironworkers rituals) So this message was on the beam. Funny.

    O.k. I feel objectified and cheap, hold on... Nice.

    Little history: On one side of the beam is a flag for our nation and on the other is a tree so the building can grow roots and be strong. The signatures are the marks of the men who made the building like an artist signing a work of art. Some thing like that, there are stories aplenty on this topic including one that has this tradition origination back in Scandinavia with the Vikings and the construction of long houses and mead halls.

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