Oddly Soothing: Plugging Pylons on the Golden Gate Bridge

Like the bricklaying video I posted a couple years ago, there's something calming and appealing about watching someone become, through practice, the master of a skill you might not think of. This employee of the Golden Gate Bridge Transportation District can plug pylons into holes made for them along the Golden Gate Bridge. He does so while the truck he's travelling on is moving at considerable speed.

He never misses a single hole throughout the video.

-via David Thompson

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So *that's* why they give you that stupid peg test at the Civil Service exam!

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That job is now automated with the new "zipper truck".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzuBZT3ne2Y

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Looks like he'd excell at pigsticking.

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Welp, time to apply that hard-earned mastery to something else. The Golden Gate Bridge _just_ changed the system from pylons to a concrete movable barrier.

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He must have a happy wife :p

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