Rigging?

Rigging in general, and especially flying people is not a subject that can freely be discussed here on the boards for liability reasons. If you need to do rigging work it is best you call a professional who actually can come to your theatre. If you need to fly people, it is best you call a rigging company that specializes in that. If you can't get that professional help then I would suggest you not attempt to fly people.

 

Not touching that with a 300' pole with a clown on the end.

 

Third Rail! Third Rail ! You Touched the Third Rail!

I understand the frustration you are going through right now. What Icewolf said is 100% correct. Call "Flying By Foy" or since you are in Penn. call Sapsis Rigging. Get a consult from a real rigger. Due to Liability and other constraints we are PROHIBITED from addressing these things on CB.
Sorry. I know it my seems silly at first, but think about it, something like 75% of all falls from 6' or higher are fatal. Accidents in rigging aren't ever minor.

 

Use a dummy or use a professional rigger.

Do Not attempt the stunt you have described on your own.

 

I worked on a show with foy about 4 years ago, I remember it being around 6k, though they trained one of our riggers to run the show, so we didn't have to pay a foy guy to stay in town. They come in, do the install, stay through tech and opening then leave. When the run is done they can either come in and drop the points or you can drop the gear and ship it back.

 

Yes, but while you were making flat rate (or whatever...) climbing around, we were making bubkiss sitting squabbling.

 

Not me! I'm on salary!


BTW you'll be happy to know this post was brought to you via a Firefox browser on a Ubuntu build. I might , Just Might, get to like this.

 

All salary mean is they pay you less to work more . Even though half the time I work its bla bla bla a week.

www.mythtv.com http://g-ding.tv/.... has been the best thing that linux has ever done for me personally. I am now adding a second slave box to put in my office/studio. Even my girlfriend loves it. 500gb hard drive (250 hours of video), 2 tuner cards, life is sweet.

 

Oh Sure I get the same if I'm working 60,80,100 hours or 40. but I can also post on controlbooth and not clock out. Wait a minute that doesn't sound nearly as cool as I would like.......

 

Ya but you get all those cool perks... like health insurance..... and dental.... and not have to file 3 million different way for taxes...... there are few things better in life then surfing the net and running a LX console at the same time and never missing a cue, so it can be done (I am better board op when I am districted, I tend to not be able to shut off my design mind when I'm board opping so I jump cues left and right, my computer takes me out of the show and makes me pay attention to the com and the go button).

 

What, no music stands to set up?