Saturday, April 07, 2007

In Which Is Detailed a Novel Method of Window-Washing

This will be a small update, about an everyday sight in a country with weak OSHA laws. Rather than explain...



If there were a caption to that photo, it would be - "people sitting on seats that are hanging from ropes, off the top of a large skyscraper." There's no apparent secondary support or even belt, crazy! They're all wearing hard hats, though, which is a rather optimistic take on the powers of modern hard-hats. There's also buckets next to them, filled with cleaning fluid I guess.



Some of the windows aren't quite so easy to reach, this window-washer is put in a very awkward position to reach them...



This requires another guy on the ground, pulling the rope to the side. This picture also gives a better idea for just how thick the rope isn't.

1 comment:

Shaun said...

Believe it or not I've seen this at my work place in US more than once. The only difference is that the building I was working in is probably not that tall. Otherwise, it was just a couple of guys on ropes (1 each) washing windows.