Attach the riggings at the top of each stiff leg to the platform while working down the leg supports.
It takes considerable time and plenty of patience when working on a water tower.
A water tower one hundred and fifty (150) feet high with four stiff legs and the tank proper about twelve (12) feet in diameter by twenty (20) feet in height will require in the neighborhood of twenty-five (25) gallons of oil paint. It will take one man approximately four days and a half (4½). It should not be difficult for you to secure about Three Hundred and Fifty ($350.00) Dollars for a job of this kind.
CHURCH SPIRES
A tapering construction and not a hard job to rig after once tried. If you are capable of rigging a church spire, then it is an easy matter for you to rig a church dome or any other structure of that nature.
For the majority of church jobs an extension ladder is the handiest article. After drawing the extension ladder up to what is known to the Jack as the pigeon hole window in the church spire, build your platform from the window with 3×4 lumber, extending it out some six feet; lower a line down on both sides of the window, having your helper tie the two ends together around the lower section of the spire. Then by drawing it to the window you will have your first loop around the steeple. Place the extension ladder on the platform; nail two boards to the inside of the window, then attach other ends of boards to the ladder. Use all the safety devices available when going out on the ladder. Lash the ladder wherever it is possible and also yourself by placing a line under the arms and tying the line that you have around the spire, working it up as far as you can go, then lash this to the ladder so as to keep the ladder from swaying to the left or right.
Showing Ladder Position from Pigeon-hole on Spire