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No fear high atop the Back Bay
By adamg on Wed, 02/04/2015 - 10:58am
As he waited for the Patriots parade down Boylston this morning, Nick Barber watched the guy attaching the Patriots banner to the pole atop the Old Hancock Building.
You can sort of see him about halfway up the pole in the photo below - if you squint and use your imagination a bit:
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I can't even begin to say how scary that looks.
He's roped in
A fall would still be bad, but he appears to be hooked on there.
Hooked in or not.....
I wouldn't get up there for all the tea in China.
My ex used to build antenna
My ex used to build antenna towers. One time he worked on the antenna on top of the Pru, he said it was a view like no other. Looking down to the roof of the Pru below him (huge exhaust fans would have made mincemeat of him) and the skyline he said was breathtaking.
When working the normal antenna towers, like in Needham, many times buckling on/off while climbing would slow things down, so many times he would just climb.
He left that job when the owner had a breakdown when the two of them were 400ft up.
His brother spent a whole day changing a lightbulb on a tower that was well over 500 ft high, I forget just how much. As a newlywed (whose very afraid of heights) I really didn't want to see or hear about his work, just glad he would make it home each day.
I remember seeing this process as I was watching
the Marathon from the steps of the BPL a couple of years ago. Terrifying to behold.
Five will get you ten
that's Revere's own Johnny Coyne. He does all of the high altitude crazy stuff like that in town.
climber
That's Kurt Jackson from Hampden Communications, Paxton, MA.
Aircraft Warning Beacon
Maybe he can go up there and change the bulb, it hasn't worked in years.
The bulb was shut down
The bulb was shut down because other buildings around it are taller. It tells aircraft what the lowest possible point would be, if it were on, it would fly right into the tower.......
Banner above Boston
That's actually Kurt Jackson of Hampden Communications in Paxton, MA...he has hung every championship banner over the old John Hancock building since 2007. Just another day at work for Kurt, when he's not unfurling championship banners, he's scaling radio towers daily to adjust frequencies, inspect, maintain and repair them all over New England including New York. He's insured and qualified to scale any tower in the world except the Eiffel Tower.
Even NY?
Has Mr. Jackson done any work on the Freedom Tower, Empire State Building (I think there's only one antenna up there, CBS 2) or perhaps the late World Trade Center?
I think he should be interviewed here.
Kurt worked on the world
Kurt worked on the world trade center antenna. I have a photo of him up on the roof. I'm his sister.