[likely solved] What are these wires on this water tower? What is their purpose?
[likely solved] What are these wires on this water tower? What is their purpose?
Why are these wires on this water tower? What do they do?
Update:
Caught it with the curtain up!
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.
This wires around the top and sides of the water tower are temporary safety lines often used during construction or maintenance work. Most likely this water tower will have some repairs done to it in the near future.
Ohh how special, water towers only bloom every 50+ years. Once it flowers and is hopefully pollinated by bald eagles, it will make thousands of new water tower seeds. Next spring the city is going to have to go around a pick all the little water towers that they don't want to grow into new big water towers.
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.
Just speculating, some sort of elaborate lightning rod system?
Those spikes keep dragons from perching on the tower. Simple, but incredibly effective!
They're bird suicide prevention cables. Now birds won't be able to fly directly into the tower to kill themselves.
Those are barnacle tongues. If you touch them, they start pulling you up towards their mouth.
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.
