Cody at Work

One of Codys coworkers at the Budweiser Events Center took a camera to work one day and got great pictures of what they do. For those who don't know, Cody is a high steel rigger, which means he walks around on I-beams (with a harness on) so he can hang motors that will hold up truss for lighting. Here is Cody leaving the catwalk and stepping on an I-beam.
Here he is trying to climb back to the catwalk, he had just finished hanging a point (pulling up a 5 foot piece of steel cable with 2 shackles and hanging it from the I-beam). The motor connects to the shackles by a long piece of chain. Notice the chairs far below him. He is reallllly high up in the air, balancing.
Here he is trying to hang a point (the canvas bag, the steel cable, and the shackles). Notice he never looks happy, he says because he is always almost going to fall off because his safety equipment gets in the way. They are 40 feet in the air, but it looks a lot higher than that.

Here is what it look like when he looks down. Thats a long fall! I can't ever watch him rig because he is just walking around on a bunch of balancing beams carrying heavy equipment, but he loves it!