[gafftaper]

The new black box has a catwalk system. It's 5 seperate catwalks that cross the space plus a connection walk on each end all in a nice larger square. The only way up and down is via a steep ship's ladder. I'm looking at it trying to figure out a SAFE way to store things like spare cable, lens tubes, and top hats, up in the catwalks instead of hauling it up and down.

I don't want to just bundle cable and lay it on the floor as that's a trip hazzard. There are lots of pipes all over the place and I was thinking I could get a piece of unistrut and hang it at shoulder height along one of the end walks then devise some sort of system of hooks to attach to the unistrut for hanging power and DMX cable.

I was also pondering what to do with top hats and spare lens tubes... I was thinking a shelf about 12" deep and 36" high. Installed on the far cross over of catwalk... still leaves 24" to walk past it. U-bolt through the back of the shelf to the hand rail so it can't fall. Install some shock cord across the front of each shelf to keep things from falling.

There are definite safety issues here but If things are well bolted and steps are taken to prevent things falling... I think it can be made safe. Has anyone seen this sort of thing? Is it just a bad idea?