Steeplejacks in bosun chairs washed the tower by hand, while other workers for the Yates Restoration Group cleaned the exterior walls by hose from scissor lifts. |
Dublin-based company Rainey and Co have employed the steeplejacks who braved last week's high winds. |
Strictly speaking, steeplejacks, like those who appear in old photographs of the church as small specks clambering up the sides, are no longer involved, Mr. Croxton said. |
Kibbe was longtime owner and operator of Skyway Steeplejacks in Douglas. |
In January this year steeplejacks climbed 100 ft above the minister floor and painstakingly removed sections, to assess what needed to be done and how much it might cost. |
In this way, like superior steeplejacks, climbers overcame these gigantic cliffs, a voyage of discovery on an ocean of fear. |