Can Any Ironworkers Explain The Christmas Tree?

MALCO.New.York

It is NOT a Christmas Tree. It is a Tannenbaum. (same thing but has a different respect).

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woodworkbykirk

now i remember where i heard it, what i stated was true, but it was on a "frontiers of construction" episode featuring iron workers who work the high iron.

apparently the tradition started in new york during the construction of the twin towers, many iron workers fell to their deaths back in the 30's so they put the tree up in memory of those men, could be some missing info in their though

BuiltByMAC

Had a crane operator explain the significance of that term - when lifting a crap load of trusses or other wood, if they're not properly
locked together, they fan out from the connection point, looking like the branches of a Christmas tree.
Makes crane operators very nervous...

Mac

MALCO.New.York

A Christmas Tree is a symbol of the Birth of some dead Jewish Guy, even though it is on the wrong day. So this Icon of Birth, the Tree, is viewed as a Symbol of "A New Life", a completed structure and is therefore placed upon the top of the Final story of a building along with an American Flag.

Once a structure is "Topped-Out", there is no more growth. There is augmentation, but no more growth.

http://www.aisc.org/Content/ContentG..._christmas.pdf

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neolitic

That's all there is, there ain't no mo'.

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Dr Heat

okay I understand the tree thing but why do they put dead bodys under the concrete?

Oh I know a tribute to the old teamster boss

WarnerConstInc.

Nah, when you get old you just start to smell funny, I always look to the 'old' guys around here, it is like a text book of knowledge.

ironndn

It is not necessarily a Christmas tree. It is usually a cedar or pine tree and it symbolizes that there were no lives lost on that job during the steel erection. It comes from the early years of ironworking when it was estimated that for every million dollars that was spent on the job that one life would be lost in the erection of the steel. So when no lives were lost they celebrated.