VIDEO: Mike Rowe tackles the ‘hardest job in contruction’

July 27, 2022

An installment to Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe, featured on the Discovery Plus network, follows Mike as he works with a team of ‘rod busters’ in the construction of the Bayside Bridge in Pinellas County, FL.

Thanks to Discovery on YouTube, we can see the difficulties ironworkers face as they enlist brute strength and fancy footwork to move rebar precisely into place in the heat and humidity of southern Florida. 

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