Today, several men would spend a considerable time erecting steel scaffolding before such a job would be attempted.
Nearby on a special steel scaffolding is the church bell, too large for either of the church's two towers.
Barry England's prose has the tough, spare elegance of steel scaffolding.
His masterpiece, Fallingwater, has been girded by steel scaffolding to prevent it from crumbling.
A cinema screen fills the small stage of the Cottesloe, framed by steel scaffolding and lit with red beacons.
Once again she was surrounded by an elaborate framework of steel scaffolding, while workers swarmed over her.
When he was gone, Andrew took out the collapsed stainless steel scaffolding at the bottom of the trunk and began to unfold it.
The tools were crisscrossed blue steel scaffolding, rising twenty feet above the ground.
"If we put up this much steel scaffolding the building would collapse around it," Mr. Sommer said.
They had walked only fifty paces into the development when they saw a large board, fixed to a triangle of steel scaffolding.