Fast becoming a neighborhood Halloween fixture, the 18-foot tall Greenwood Reaper is being installed on his perch at the corner of 3rd Avenue NW and NW 76th Street today.
Here’s his creator, Jason Lescott, draping landscape fabric over the rebar torso and fiberglass skull, which he planned to mount later today if the weather holds.
Lescott created a 13-foot-tall Reaper several years ago for about $100, then decided he could go one better with his current model, which he figures costs about $300 in materials and weighs about 100 pounds.
The welded rebar upper body is mounted on a frame mounted in 600 pounds of concrete. “The original Reaper, I could put up myself. This one takes people and rigging and rope,” Lescott said. Here’s where he’ll be mounted on the corner:
Read more about the Greenwood Reaper here.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Aka // Oct 18, 2009 at 10:16 am
I look forward to this every year and tell everyone I know to drive by. Thanks to the creator for the effort. It is apppreciated!
2 seattle mike // Oct 19, 2009 at 10:13 am
I think he needs to be clutching one of those neon green plastic kids from 74th.
3 taxilady2 // Oct 21, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I’m so glad there are young people who think about the children in the neighborhood! Three ‘boos’ for Jason”. Keep up the good works.
4 kim // Oct 21, 2009 at 1:50 pm
yes, it’s neighbors like this that make the holiday season fun by allowing us all to be kids again.
5 Amalala // Oct 21, 2009 at 3:00 pm
Jason!!! I used to work with him!!!
I had NO IDEA we lived in the same neighborhood.
6 petsfriend // Oct 22, 2009 at 10:02 pm
Thank you Jason. Your efforts are looked forward to by our kids every year.
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