Why are these wires on this water tower? What do they do?

Update:

Caught it with the curtain up!

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    The easiest easy for a small town to make some easy money is to turn their water tower into one of those carnival rides that spin people around on long ropes.

  • frosty99c@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    Are they always there? Looks like they are getting ready to hang a curtain around it before painting it, or some other type of maintenance.

    • Dr_Fetus_Jackson@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s what this is for. They’ll hang a large curtain around it to keep primer and paint overspray from drifting throughout the neighborhood.

  • OfficeMonkey@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Base jumping. Funding is difficult, so the local water utility has started charging admission. €10 for access to the lines, and €20 to clip on.

  • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    You know that cup-in-ball string game? Well imagine the cup is 10 storeys high, and imagine that instead of one ball on a string, there’s hundreds.

    It’s pretty difficult to get all those balls in the cup in one go, so it’s been there for decades waiting for the The Promised One to come and perform the Move of all Moves to put all ends to rights, and sup the milk of paradise.

  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    They’re bird suicide prevention cables. Now birds won’t be able to fly directly into the tower to kill themselves.