Treadmill Operator

TreadmillThis was definitely not a job for vertigo sufferers and was often done by the blind.

Imagine a giant mouse wheel, balanced at the highest point (up to 50m) of an almost built cathedral and you?ve got an idea of what a treadmill looked like.

The operator would trudge for hours, turning the treadmill which moved the winch on a crane.

It was monotonous and dangerous because if the treadmill was damaged by the weather, or badly constructed it could come crashing down.
 



 

 

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