Why are these wires on this water tower? What do they do?
Update:
Caught it with the curtain up!
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.
Occam’s Razor 🧐
I don’t know, installing razors around the ride sounds dangerous.
That’s what makes it fun
Those spikes keep dragons from perching on the tower. Simple, but incredibly effective!
Those are barnacle tongues. If you touch them, they start pulling you up towards their mouth.
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.
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.
I doubt that. If the way you’re applying paint means you’re losing so much to the air that you could damage nearby property, you might want to rethink your method. Paint is expensive.
When spray painting you want to control the wind as it WILL waste a lot of your paint and will interfere with the evenness of the paint application. And prevent outside dust from ruining your fresh paint coat.
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.
They’re bird suicide prevention cables. Now birds won’t be able to fly directly into the tower to kill themselves.
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.
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