Monday, June 26, 2017

And You Thought You Had A Hard Time With The Shower Curtain

An interesting situation to watch unfold. While I am in my annual three week break and annual period of mourning, the next ten days will be the hardest. While I have this little break of a couple of days until the 28th thru the 7th of July, I have time for this one, brief post. Then after the 7th, I'll catch you up on everything during the past three week of the this years reflections. So, enjoy the post, and I'll be back on the 7th.
Just imagine 10-stories of these to clip on! That would be enough for a life time of shower curtains!

That's three dudes and a wench (no pun intended)They are putting the advertising banner in place at the top. It drops a full 10-stories and is many yards wide, much wider, when stretched out.

This guy is putting the clips onto the anchor cable. The first image is of the one hanging to the left in this image (the narrow black and white border). It anchors into the wall and then clips to the main banner. The material is vinyl and has thousands of little holes to keep the wind from transforming this thing into a massive kite. This guy is the lucky one of the workers---he is only about 40 feet off the ground. His ladder is on top of a two story annex that juts out below.

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