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Category: Tower Roof

10Aug/03

Tower Roof – Lightning Rod & Weather Vane Find

August 10, 2003Tower Roofjeff

While at a local antique shop, we ran across this cool looking lightning rod/weather vane assembly.  We believe that the house originally had a lightning rod & weather vane on the top

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04Jun/03

Tower Roof – Remaining Old Roof Removal

June 4, 2003Tower Roofjeff

The roofer didn’t have the proper, needed equipment to gain access to the front of the tower roof, so he built this contraption… The roofer, scaling the ladder to the tower roof…

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26May/03

Tower Roof – Old Roof Removal, Back Side

May 26, 2003Tower Roofjeff

The center section of the back of the tower with almost all of the asphalt singles removed.  Note the interesting pattern that was created using the different shaped wooden shingles.  We are

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23May/03

Tower Roof – Old Roof Removal, Back Side

May 23, 2003Tower Roofjeff

The beginning of the tower roof tear off. Once the roofer got a little further in the tear off, we discovered that the original wood shingles were still intact and that they

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