That sounds plausible. The wider shorter unit was easier to climb onto, so he went with that first. After his oops, he sees the HVAC unit to the right’s conduit has a mounting bracket to use as a stepping point.
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Here we go
“A source briefed on the events of the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, told DailyMail.com that Burke was not on the ground that day, but that his role included approving the advance security plan for Trump’s campaign rally.”
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And I can’t really tell very well from the photo but the two left units appear to have fans on their top, so a grating covering it. The taller one on the right very well may have had a solid top plate from which the FBI could potentially recover a shoeprint, hence the plywood afterwards.
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A source briefed on the events of the July 13 shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania,
Ah, so very, very vague. Briefed on the events by whom? Aside from this mysteriously well-briefed ‘source’, is there any evidence to confirm he was not at the event? We happen to have possible visual evidence to the contrary, so do we have any proof supporting this claim? How could it even be possible that a SAIC would NOT be on the ground that day?
Yes, the dual unit that is lower are AC compressors and typically have a circular wire screen over them. But square units like those you could probably stand on the corner. The FBI did remove the top of the taller unit and brought it to their evidence lab, per a security guard at AGR that told Benny Johnson about it during his visit with congressmen.
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Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
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How the hack can somebody (probably Kuss, maybe Collins) come up with Crooks having a book bag along on the roof?
Report Page 50
“saw a person with a book bag “running” on the roof of the AGR building”
the manual for the range finder, a book on ballistics, the manual for the DPMS A-15, the manual of his red dot scope, possibly also the roof slope aiming guide for dummies…
as the fast buriers of information did not want to teach copycats, they did not release the booklist and inventory of his back pack and mispronounced it as a book bag…
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I think we can be almost certain now that this is Marciniak. Only the Lead C-S from Hercules 1 was interviewed, D. King wasn’t yet.
“the USSS Counter Sniper Team Leader told the Committee that the majority of his time he was facing “basically the same direction as the stage.”"
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Who could ever believe that Email is the comm of choice for transmitting a message over the 50yards distance between the 2 barn roofs 
My solution for the USSS communication problem
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Good, I’ll remove the unconfirmed.
Where are we at with Costanza at the site? Have we come to a conclusion on which one he was?
I’m getting ready to post Rev 7, and it would be great to have that one settled.
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How dare you?
Think about all the fire safety regulation they’d have to violate in order to start a fire up there 
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you are right, and this leads to another remarkable location we have not considered until now!
we should really start asking ourselves why nobody has suggested before to look into chimney shooters!
the smoke screened answer is obvious, given this smoke signal hypothesis!
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I don’t think so, but maybe @brian60221 has something on it soon.
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Senate Report - page 78 onwards
5:44 pm The Butler ESU Commander called a PSP Sergeant, stationed in the USSS Security Room, who was his primary point-of-contact and liaison to USSS. In a subsequent interview, the PSP Sergeant stated he received information about a suspicious person near the AGR building, specifically, “a young white male, long hair, with a rangefinder, like, had been seen by the counter snipers. . . . And then he also said a bike and a backpack had appeared that they weren’t sure was related, but wasn’t there, obviously, at the start of the rally.”404 This was the first confirmed communication to USSS about Crooks, approximately 27 minutes before the shooting.405
Around that same time, the PSP Sergeant called a PSP Trooper (who was assigned as the intelligence officer working with the USSS Protective Intelligence agent) and a PSP Corporal (who was assigned as a site roving supervisor) and informed them about the suspicious person and was told they would start to look for him.
5:47 pm The PSP Trooper who had been told about the suspicious person around 5:44 pm then called two undercover PSP Troopers stationed at the Sheetz gas station and gave them a description of the suspicious person and told them to go to the AGR building to look for him.
6:02 pmThe Beaver County ESU sniper who took the photograph of Crooks radioed on the local ESU channel, “Alright subject is in between the AGR buildings. He’s got a backpack now. He just went towards Sheetz.”
Approx. 6:03 – 6:04 pm The Butler ESU Commander relayed this information via phone call to the PSP Sergeant. In a subsequent interview, the PSP Sergeant stated that he was unable to radio the PSP Trooper at Post 5 so he called the PSP Trooper, relayed the information, and told him, “that guy’s back. He’s walking between buildings. He’s headed towards the Sheetz.”
6:04 pm The PSP Trooper (who had previously directed the two undercover Troopers to look for the suspicious person at 5:47 pm) then sent the two undercover Troopers the photograph of Crooks.** The Butler County Sheriff’s Deputy then radioed on the Sheriff’s Office radio channel that the suspicious person “is headed towards Sheetz.”
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Confirmation that D. King shot Crooks. (Edit: It’s not clear that King killed him or hit him, the report only states he fired his weapon at him)
“The two USSS counter snipers interviewed by the Committee both confirmed that the USSS Counter Sniper Team Leader’s partner on Hercules 1 fired his weapon at Crooks.”
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