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  • What I did today…70′ in the air!

    Posted by Jill Marie Welsh on 4 August 2009 at 23:26

    Company insisted on a repaint.
    My brother works for a sign maintenance and repair company and he subcontracted me. That’s him in the yellow shirt.
    I did one side of this 1979 metal 10’x20′ sign, tomorrow if I can still move I will do the other side.
    Worked 8-5.
    There are a few drips but you can’t see them from the parking lot.
    Love….Jill


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    Emma Louise Oates replied 16 years, 3 months ago 25 Members · 31 Replies
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  • Harry Cleary

    Member
    4 August 2009 at 23:50

    Good job Jill….there is nothing that will make you as sore and weary as hanging in one of those all day!

  • Chris Wool

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 00:05

    thankfully my insurance would not cover me to do that,

    that’s my excuse and i am sticking to it.

    brave girl

    chris

  • David Rowland

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 00:09

    amazing!!!!!

  • Duncan Wilkie

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 02:57

    That’s a real workout, you must be in great shape. Well done.

  • John Childs

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 05:36

    Not a job for me. 😀

    Nicely done Jill. 😀

  • Nicola McIntosh

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 06:39

    your one brave girl jill, nice job done 😀

    nik

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 06:48

    Well done that girl

    Just remember not to stand back to admire jour work!

    Peter

  • Peter Dee

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 07:40

    Takes some nerve swaying about in one of those – not for the feint hearted.

    Q. Why do women always paint their hands when using a paint brush 😉

  • Phill Fenton

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 07:56

    Well done Jill. :appl:

    I wonder how many people thought you must be Wendy when they saw you up there painting 😀

  • Graeme Harrold

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 08:46

    Awesome…..fantastic bit of work and a bit out of the usual. :appl:

  • Martin Cole

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 09:37

    A definitely rather you than me job 😮

    Well done Jill,

  • Hugh Potter

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 09:37

    not too sure you’d get me up there either! well done Jill,

    nice nail colour!

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 09:37

    Up and ready to get ready.
    I feel like a chicken who had one of its wings torn off!
    I bid on three days for this job but I think I can only stand one more day.
    Maybe if I wear gloves today the sweat on my hands will act as a paint remover?
    😉

  • Graeme Harrold

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 10:03
    quote Jillbeans:

    Up and ready to get ready.
    I feel like a chicken who had one of its wings torn off!

    😉

    Good job its Wendy’s and not KFC then :lol1:

    Have fun up there……..

  • Marcella Ross

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 10:11

    OMG ………… not for all the tea in China would I go up there!!!!! I can’t handle 3 steps on a ladder never mind that!

    You’re brave Jill! 😮

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 10:37

    Not brave…just money grubbing!
    😉

  • Paul Hughes

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 10:52

    Ohhhh a wendy’s burger, i am hungry now (!)

    great work jill

    Paul

  • Cheryl Smith

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 11:38

    well done!! hope it wasnt too hot or windy!!

  • Mike Grant

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 21:25

    Can you see my house from up there!

    Looks like a fun job! 😀 A lot easier when the artwork is already there for you.

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    5 August 2009 at 22:58

    I’m done! I’m done!
    A day early even.
    I think I am gonna have to take tomorrow off.
    Everyone else thinks I will be working anyway.
    I know this pic is awful but I just wanted to prove it was really me up there.


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  • Martin Pearson

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 00:50

    sorry Jill your not fooling us, that picture could have been taken with you standing in front of a sign on the ground :lol1:

    Great job and I am pretty sure you have earned a day off.

  • Jason Xuereb

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 01:31

    Awesome job Jill.

  • Michael Potter

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 02:49

    not for this little black duck. feel sick just looking at the photo’s.
    well done Jill just check that your brother really does love his sister.
    cheers Mike

  • Warren Beard

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 07:09

    nice one Jill :thumbup2: not sure how excited I would be about working that high up 🙄 :lol1:

    Warren

  • David Rowland

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 08:41

    you wouldn’t beleive the amount of H&S/risk assessments we would have to go thru to do that.

  • Shane Drew

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 08:52

    well done Jill. I’ve done a job inside at half that height, in the centre of an atrium, not keen about doing it outside in the wind at twice the height.

    On the second day, my get up an go would have got up and gone in the night. 😮

  • Simon Strom

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 18:08

    Yeah, did you at least get a free sammich and fries?

  • Peter Normington

    Member
    6 August 2009 at 18:58

    this is what 70 foot looks like when you are there, looking down.
    so well done again Jill,

    Peter


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  • Andrew Boyle

    Member
    7 August 2009 at 21:31

    Well done Jill….I like your photo too… 😀

  • Jill Marie Welsh

    Member
    7 August 2009 at 21:50

    Thanks everybody.
    No sandwich not even a Frosty.
    The grease smell kind of made me queasy.
    I wanted a cup of coffee but then it would be too much of a pain to get back down to go wee.
    Peter, I never saw that building, it must have been across the street.
    Beside this maybe.


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  • Emma Louise Oates

    Member
    10 August 2009 at 23:44

    Well done Jill! Looks great 🙂

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