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Some great footage in this Open Culture piece on workers on NY’s Chrysler Building, plus a rather alarming contemporary video from Kuala Lumpur. 
http://www.openculture.com/2020/02/watch-this-dazzling-footage-of-construct...

That Kuala Lumpur footage is nuts. I wonder how many people get killed by falling debris?

A lot of the guys who worked erecting the steels on NY skyscrapers were Mohawk tribesmen

Yes. I first heard about this via the Pixies' song - 

youtube.com/watch?v=Cd6uVpMDfag&

- which indicates the Navajo did as well. I came across a documentary about the Mohawks and their construction work a while back... I'll see if I can find it. 

Here's some more NY building stuff - old clips of the Chrysler and Empire State buildings:

http://www.openculture.com/2019/08/watch-the-completely-unsafe-vertigo-indu...

[Edit] This is the one I saw - 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Steel

And now there's a documentary series too:

http://www.mohawkironworkers.com

At least he's wearing  his hard hat.

Wimp. What's wrong with a cloth cap?

The guy in Kuala Lumpur is wearing a safety helmet!

Edit. Tom got there before me.

Highly advanced stuff there in KL. I visited Shenzhen nearly 20 years ago when a huge amount of high rise building was going on. It was all done with bambo scaffolding. 30 or 40 storey fancy buildings with two or three levels of bamboo scaffold sticking up above it were commonplace. All held together with plastic banding tape hand-knotted. 

Here is a video of the bamboo being used in HK.
youtube.com/watch?v=QqUS4JGbb3I&
This is broadly similar to what I have seen in HK, Guangdong and Jiansu. 

Great stuff, thanks. Bamboo is such a versatile material.

Ha ha, that fridge-hug at 9.00!

Bamboo and plastic straps sounds horrifying, but I guess the only fatalities really come from people falling off if they've been using the method for long enough to know how to make things robust. 

I heard a guy fall from the 20th+ floor from bamboo scaffold in Asia many years ago. First on the scene it was obvious nothing could be done apart from cleaning up. It looked to me like the build then carried on as if nothing had happened. A tough life.

Love the 'knots'.
Twist it 6 or 7 times and stuff the tails in!

I think they're tied again after the tails are pushed in?

Edit: Erk! I think you're right.