Thanks for everyones help and advice. To us, rigging the 3D set piece wasn't the issue. We have blocks on the set that fit into grooves on the Bridge to stop any possible lateral movement. The physics now make sense to me. The batten can hold up to 1500 lbs. and the bridge is 115ish. After...
We are only using one line set on this. The bridge will be flown by 4 seperate pieces of airline cable on each corner. Again, my problem isn't with the initial counter weighting. The problem is that once the bridge is on the ground or on the set itself, it will no longer require the counter...
We are doing a production of Les Mis School Edition at our high school and I am handling the technical needs. We're all ready to go but I have a reservation about the bridge. We have a single purchase counter weigted fly system and for Javert suicide we are doing the traditional jump from ground...