11. A third helper, Jesus Alvarez, wearing his trademark folded-newspaper hat, touches a wire to a steel rod clamped to the workbench. 12. A steel rod was inserted in his right leg to help the bone heal. 13. Chimes have small steel rods that move up and down to strike the chime bars, but they will stick in place if they become clogged with dirt. 14. Cycles of freezing and thawing had damaged the concrete deck, allowing water to seep onto reinforcing steel rods, corroding them. 15. Detainees, it said, were often hung from posts for hours and beaten with steel rods on their heads and genitalia. 16. Doctors inserted a steel rod inside his bone, from ankle to knee. 17. Flagler installed steel rods running from the roofs into concrete footings. 18. He cooked it in a pit in the dirt, with the pig suspended on steel rods, slowly roasting over hot coals. 19. Helping each other, we worked our way down, stepping into unlikely indentations, holding dangling chains, grabbing steel rods driven into the rock. 20. If the concrete is in good condition, and reinforced with steel rods, this is possible. |