Over-all: A+. /QUOTE @teqniqal Erich; 3 points you MAY consider including:
1; NEVER start battens swinging. So often you see pipes being flown in to their bottom EOT stop and they're being flown in perfectly fine by the fly person; descending FLAWLESSLY without any hint of swinging. (Which is a good thing) :
a; if someone is waiting to
spike a precise location of where an item, legs,
scrim or projection
screen for example, will land on the
deck and
b; Swinging battens are in no one's best interest when one, or more, crew members decide they're going to help the poor fly person pull in the
batten.
WRONG!
c; At that
point, the last thing the fly person needs is someone pulling down on the
batten when it's already travelling in of its own volition and the fly person is gently slowing its descent as it's approaching its lower EOT [End Of Travel] stop.
d; The
batten was coming in with extreme lateral positional accuracy when some uneducated "helper" starts it swinging like a pendulum
BEFORE anyone's had a chance to accurately
spike its precise position on the
deck (If desired / required)
A swinging pendulum suspended from a 40'
grid requires appreciable time to stop swinging.
When suspended from a 120'
grid, you may as well
call "Lunch!", or at the very least "Coffee".
2; You wrote of the proper tool to use when inserting ribbons into the operating
line in lieu of spiking with various types of adhesive tapes which are prone to slipping and leaving sticky, grime attracting, residue behind. You MAY want to mention the tip of the cutting blade in your favorite Buck knife is
NOT the tool for the job and you MAY choose to elaborate on why.
3; Someone should mention it's extremely useful to have lateral center lines indelibly indicated on every
batten and it's probably useful to explain why a center supporting cable rarely lines up precisely with the center of the
deck.
Normally a center supporting cable will be off center by the radius of its
loft block /
sheave.
Thank you for an excellent, and comprehensive, list.
@BillConnerFASTC / @MNicolai , would either of you care to comment?
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.