I'm going to run Harry's numbers on a point that I felt was overloaded, and just see what comes up. Center point on an upstage video wall. Three one ton motors. All hung on 3/8" steel. The truss itself... Continue Reading →
I spent way too much time going over formulas at the beginning of this chapter. Tomorrow I will blog about them some. But it got late while I went down the rabbit hole of 1/4" to 1/2" IWRC cables...... ... Continue Reading →
I think the bulk of this chapter can be summarized by the one statement: "Rigging accidents are usually caused by a cluster of minor problems, any one of which would not cause an accident by itself." There are 8 points... Continue Reading →
In Donovans book section 3 page 32 (Rigging 101), it has a few lines about adding a steel cables as a fire safety on ploy spansets. Then it goes on to point out that there doesn't seem to be any... Continue Reading →
There is an example in here about walking a beam above a drop ceiling 2' below and everything is fine, until the rigger gets a glance of the floor 80' below him. Then he gets very tense. Nothing has changed,... Continue Reading →
There is a ton of information in this chapter. It might be better off if I take two days to blog about it. This is the 101 of the rigging world. It starts with diffrent types of... Continue Reading →
I'm going to read a few pages of "Entertainment Rigging" by Harry Donovan every day for the next few weeks as something I can do for self improvement during this down time. Then I am going to blog about the... Continue Reading →
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