Mike Rowe Discovers the Hardest Job in Construction | Dirty Jobs

I am a rod buster and i love this job

Ahh tying rebar. Mike's humor was dead on in this episode.

I‘ve been a union ironworker since 1999. Local 512 Minneapolis-St.Paul I’ve been in the rod patch my entire career. It feels good to be noticed and I would like people to see what we do here. In the beginning there were days where we would punk bars all day while others tied template. Next day, we tied it up. Bottom mat, 50%, top mat, 100%. There is a lot of pride driving over a bridge I have bled on. We are a strong brother and sisterhood.

Local 378 Ironworker. Work safe fellas!

And women say they don't need men 😂

Far from being the hardest construction job lol Try scaffolding for a day.

Aye! 220 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal! You gotta dig the pain! 512

Why are all crew bosses named Brooks?😭😂 I swear every boss including my client who is a construction boss has the name brooks😂 out of my experience anyway lol

Why are all crew bosses named Brooks?😭😂 I swear every boss including my client who is a construction boss has the name brooks😂

Interesting how theirs never any women complaining about female representation in jobs like this.

Longest six months my apprenticeship was doing rods...

Only hispanos do this work. 🇲🇽 😊

I suspect even in a fully automated age, jobs like this will still have humans crawling over the project to check, and train.

Tied Rebar in 15 States for Over 27 years! 2 Nuclear, 2 Hydro Electric & 2 Co Gen Plants! Bridge decks Suck cause your bent over most of te Day!!! #18 Rebar weighs 13.6 Pounds per foot & were moved by Hand on Bottom & Top mat @ 149 feet long on Nuclear Reactors Base Mat!!! #18 in Virginia Hydo came from East Germany before the Wall was tore down in 1979!!! Dywidag Rebar was Quite Advanced for Hydro Plant Buildings! Ran 24 hours a day, 7 days a week & 360 days a year until completed!!!

I'm a 20+ year vet rodbuster. The guy said u grab it with the cutting part of the pliers.. hahahha I hope he was messing with him

Facts we are

Not the hardest job.

Thank you men for showing up and building bridges ❤️

I couldn't imagine the wear on their bodies!! The weight, the heat, the sun, I bet their feet are hella sore walking on rebar all day, I bet most don't make it first week. These are theen that need to be paid well, not lebRon jAmeS

Them number 4's light work imagine number 11 30 feet long making walls for the bottom of a building or number 18's we had to place them bad boys with a crane 😅😅

Here we are, 2023 and these guys are still busting rods like they did well over a hundred years ago.

I can think of a dozen different tools that could speed this process up and reduce fatigue. Crazy.

My backs hurting watching this

Takes a special kind of crazy to enjoy this work. Then there's those of us who love it!

LOCAL 7 IRONWORKER OUT OF BOSTON MASS💪🏽🙌🏽

never seen such a beautifull, clean "tie gun". I worked in a factory where we prefeb concrete segments, our guns ofc had their battle scars. Still had to manually know to yeah, cause we only had in our section and broke a few times. One idiot forgot to tie it, and tried to after the concrete was poured by shoving the head of the gun in the concrete...

He's lucky that's a small slab! Imagine if they threw him on a transfer or raft slab

I did it for 6 years. It was good time.

Rodbuster World

Whenever I see vertical rebar I immediately think of the different ways I could be impaled on it. Like rebar equals death. It's cool stuff, and I know how important it is to securing concrete and keeping structures upright and all that. But it freaks me out. ☠

Sometimes you have to fail to succeed, Most times it amazes me greatly how I moved from an average lifestyle to earning over $63k per month, Utter shock is the word. I have understood a lot in the past few years that there are lots of opportunities in the financial market. The only thing is to know where to invest...

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Rodbusters Aka Iron Workers and Roofers Two of the hardest Trade's in construction.

Rod Busting looks like one of the most grueling parts of construction. However, it does not look like the loudest. As somebody who knows nothing about construction, can somebody please help me out by naming the loudest part of construction?

As a truck driver I appreciate these guys......even though they can be a pain in the ass when they shut a laying down and caused a traffic jam.

Imagine slipping and falling on some rebar

IMO being a Pile Driver is a little bit tougher.

Rerod companies literally treat their employees like slaves. It's all about making money for the company while the guys get as little as possible. The life expectancy of these guys is pretty short and those who can "push" themselves through to "retirement" end up crippled to enjoy their remaining years.

Rule number one. Never give anyone your tools

i beg to differ. Try Sand Blasting a tank when it is 130 degrees inside a confined space. Now that is one of the toughest job in all of construction. I dont care who you are. That job separates the Men from the Boys, with in a matter of 2 minutes your body becomes a River of Sweat.

Nah scaffold is harder

I love my job ❤

To anyone that wondered about the guy removing the spring from the new lineman pliers. The spring in the lineman pliers, automatically open the pliers. That sounds like it helps. When you spend all day squeezing the pliers through tie wire, the added pressure of the spring really wears out the hand quicker. Remove the spring, less pressure required to cut the wire. So, he really wasn't doing a "real men don't use springs", he really was helping.

Listen… i have love for all my rebar buddies at work and they do work hard! But by NO MEANS are they the hardest workers by any stretch of the imagination! I’m a carpenter and I promise you we have it wayyyy harder then the rebar guys! Try running on their rebar carrying two sheets of 3/4” ply wood at a time for about 200’ because the cranes busy and concretes coming… don’t get me started, you guys in the southern states have it easy! Try doing this type of things in -20degree Celsius winter and then +40 in summer!
We work thru the snow and the ice.

This and industrial scaffold building take a different breed of men. We should all be grateful for them.

For anyone curious, this bridge is still under development 😂

I’ve done cable, cement and rebar and without a doubt rebar has been the toughest job I’ve done in construction.

I feel tired already from watching this on my phone

This dude has the most not funny cheesy jokes..cringe

By the next day you don't feel your hand I swear did it for 2 yrs