Ok! So here's a discussion that I ran across today that I hope hasn't already been discussed, and if it has well then buy me a high dollar hooker to aid in my sta bil lity.
Anyhow, while at work today I am checking in a snake(thank god it was only a W4, and not a full loomed one) when I decide to open the box to insure that all the connections were'nt well effed up. (i.e. little elves putting glue in the xlr's on the head and using skissors to cut xlrs off of little piggy tails... ok end retartedness) OK, so the point is I open up the snake and I stand there in disgust to see this poor little guy wrapped 7 different ways to sunday. Gosh it started out being just wadded at the top, then half ass over over, then to figure eight, oh and then at the bottom small xlr coils. That was some fun redoing that, but good thing there wasn't too much else to do today.
Ok, so on to the real point at hand! I find a snake that was poorly wrapped and I happen to know that it was wrapped by high schoolers. Now I know what some of you are saying, "Wait a minute I'm a high schooler!" So, here's the deal nothing (thinking for seconds throughout the day) nothing I repeat makes me more mad then going to a cable kit and pulling out spagetti. With that said I know more than a few times I have seen professional stagehands that can't coil a cable correctly to save there life, and I'm ok with that there's other things that they can do far better than me. I will also admit that when I was in high school NO, I could't wrap a cable to save me from milkin a gaot. So when I helped with loadins for our city's local shed and it came time for a a road guy to hand me a coil to wrap. I told him "My cable wrapping was'nt very good at all." He gave me the same happy face that I would give anyone today that says "Thank you for telling me that!!!"
With all that said I must say that if you want to work in this industry coil wrapping is properly in the top 5 of the most fundamental things that you need to learn how to do in this industry. There's two basic wraps that yield different results. Over over is twisting the cable the same way in a loop, so that no matter which way you undo it it should'nt get too tangled. Over under which is pretty much industry standard is somewhat hard for me to explain. It would be even better for someone to show and correct you on how to do. You can keep cables together in a loop by using tie line or even looping it through its inside loop and then through itself once again hard to explain in words.
OHHH, and by the way I have neglected trying to explain how to properly wrap a cable for a couple of reasons.
1. Being the before mentioned it's hard to explain in word's and you'll get einstein struck when you see it in person.
2. If you practice it a dozen times the wrong way from a source that you read that does you no good. 3 wrong turns dont make a right but if you have someone navigate you the right way one right does!
3. As I previously started another thread that says "SEEK OTHER SOURCES" that is what I am challenging go about finding other ways to achieve knowledge!
Better yet the point to some of this venting is:
IF you can't coil a cable correctly learn.
IF you wrap any cable around your elbow a billion times it hurts it, and you would get yelled at by and professional person by doing so.
The leaves go falling one by one, hoorah hoorah. The leaves go falling two by two hoorah hoorah. Curly goes down to the farm shells corn and finds hot chics this weekend hoorah hoorah!! AHHHHHH SNAP ALL OF THAT MEANS COLD WEATHER
Anyhow, while at work today I am checking in a snake(thank god it was only a W4, and not a full loomed one) when I decide to open the box to insure that all the connections were'nt well effed up. (i.e. little elves putting glue in the xlr's on the head and using skissors to cut xlrs off of little piggy tails... ok end retartedness) OK, so the point is I open up the snake and I stand there in disgust to see this poor little guy wrapped 7 different ways to sunday. Gosh it started out being just wadded at the top, then half ass over over, then to figure eight, oh and then at the bottom small xlr coils. That was some fun redoing that, but good thing there wasn't too much else to do today.
Ok, so on to the real point at hand! I find a snake that was poorly wrapped and I happen to know that it was wrapped by high schoolers. Now I know what some of you are saying, "Wait a minute I'm a high schooler!" So, here's the deal nothing (thinking for seconds throughout the day) nothing I repeat makes me more mad then going to a cable kit and pulling out spagetti. With that said I know more than a few times I have seen professional stagehands that can't coil a cable correctly to save there life, and I'm ok with that there's other things that they can do far better than me. I will also admit that when I was in high school NO, I could't wrap a cable to save me from milkin a gaot. So when I helped with loadins for our city's local shed and it came time for a a road guy to hand me a coil to wrap. I told him "My cable wrapping was'nt very good at all." He gave me the same happy face that I would give anyone today that says "Thank you for telling me that!!!"
With all that said I must say that if you want to work in this industry coil wrapping is properly in the top 5 of the most fundamental things that you need to learn how to do in this industry. There's two basic wraps that yield different results. Over over is twisting the cable the same way in a loop, so that no matter which way you undo it it should'nt get too tangled. Over under which is pretty much industry standard is somewhat hard for me to explain. It would be even better for someone to show and correct you on how to do. You can keep cables together in a loop by using tie line or even looping it through its inside loop and then through itself once again hard to explain in words.
OHHH, and by the way I have neglected trying to explain how to properly wrap a cable for a couple of reasons.
1. Being the before mentioned it's hard to explain in word's and you'll get einstein struck when you see it in person.
2. If you practice it a dozen times the wrong way from a source that you read that does you no good. 3 wrong turns dont make a right but if you have someone navigate you the right way one right does!
3. As I previously started another thread that says "SEEK OTHER SOURCES" that is what I am challenging go about finding other ways to achieve knowledge!
Better yet the point to some of this venting is:
IF you can't coil a cable correctly learn.
IF you wrap any cable around your elbow a billion times it hurts it, and you would get yelled at by and professional person by doing so.
The leaves go falling one by one, hoorah hoorah. The leaves go falling two by two hoorah hoorah. Curly goes down to the farm shells corn and finds hot chics this weekend hoorah hoorah!! AHHHHHH SNAP ALL OF THAT MEANS COLD WEATHER
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