Recent content by AVerderyAerialRigging

Might I also recommend that the OP hire a professional flyman or rigger to give him/her a crash course in basic stage rigging and counterweight systems? The questions asked show a substandard amount of knowledge for me to feel comfortable with all of the advice that requires someone who knows...

Waaaaay back when I was the Head Carp for the NYC run of BatBoy the Musical we had the same exact problem. I don't think that the core cause is cheap hardboard as we used pretty high end tempered Masonite on our deck and we still wound up with a really attractive patch of exposed brown fiber as...

Excellent resource dealing with the nuances of code and safety from a technical design perspective

Companies and shows represented: Grounded Aerial (www.groundedaerial.com), Cedar Lakes Contemporary Ballet, Chix-6, 'Peer Gynt' and 'Titus Andronicus' at the...

Well, like I said, its a bunch of my stuff

Hey, I realize I'm coming to this game waaaay late, but this thread popped up in a search I was doing and caught my eye so thought I might shed some light on all this. When I am speccing any aerial rigging I START at a 2000# attachment point for the apparatus for a single person. This covers...

and, btw, it was actually far from simple....

I'm positive that you're referring to one of Elizabeth Streb's machines called 'Fly' (She wasn't very good at naming her work). I spent a harrowing year as her TD/PM and am intimately familiar with it. -...