Hey, we finished the towers and are on the "downhill side of the job.

We started to haul away scaffold today as it came down, so you know we are starting to get close. Good thing too, because we have to have the scaffold for other jobs. Another 4 weeks and we will just about have it I think. With all of the extras we have run into, it is about on schedule too. How can you beat that?

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Vickey, it is interesting to go on these jobs and tear them apart. It only takes a few minutes and you are inside the heads of the guys that installed them so many years ago. They "speak" to me, and I am sure that a lot of the guys will tell you the same thing. On these larger restoration jobs, I will often leave a note or a date or something to talk to the future roofers out there. Hopefully one of these days in the distant future, someone will tear that roof apart and they will say, "Boy, those old guys really knew what they were doing back then in "12". I wonder how they did that with no "antigravity belts or machines"

If you do it enough, water will teach you what to do and why, and there are always the "old School" roofers from before that will leave their evidence for you to review. I would not want to do anythibng else. Glad you are liking the pictures. John Crookston, though I am still "Old School"

I just wrote about my feelings of finding our future roofers.

Old School, Your work is so great to look at. You'd better start videotaping or something. What will we do when you're gone?

You know I was thinking, If we are walking on a balance beam 1 foot off the ground do we have any better chance of not losing our balance when it's 12 foot off the ground. All roofing is dangerous. Falling off a roof is falling off a roof it's just the level of broken-ness when you hit.

I was talking with my wife tonight about working there. Even though we always "choose" to work safely, it is still an exhausting endevor. Just being up that high makes every move count and you have to be on your "A" game all the time. There is no down time until your feet hit the ground. I get home and collapse into a chair and unwind. Like you said, it is good to be done with the really high stuff. No letting down our guard mind you, but at least the chances of one slip costing us our lives, we can count on just being laid up for the rest of it. Ha Ha. that would really suck.

I'm glad to hear you're coming down from them heights. and safely in one piece. Great looking job

Nice looking work! :)