[SML] Scissors lifts onstage

[Dale Farmer]

Just because it's on sale, doesn't mean you have to buy it.  
A good mental exercise to help clarify your thoughts on the matter is to construct a needs analysis and put together the business case to justify spending the money on this.  Possibly taking money away from other parts of the budget that you care about.  (On the other paw, the football coach doesn't need the school to replace his two year old car this year. )
Dale

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From: Richard John Archer via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> 
Date: 08/20/2015  15:43  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Stagecraft Mailing List <stagecraft at theatrical.net> 
Cc: Richard John Archer <rja10 at cornell.edu> 
Subject: [SML] Scissors lifts onstage 

We might  have the opportunity to get a Genie  GS-2632  scissor lift at a reduced (but still expensive) cost.   This would be in addition to our two  standard Genie personnel lifts we now own..  ( IWP variety --no outriggers_)

http://www.genielift.com/en/products/scissor-lifts/slab-scissor-lifts/gs2632/index.htm

We have a fairly "standard"   sized Proscenium theatre with usual lighting trims at 25-35' and a several other black box type spaces with floor accessed fixed grids at 19'.   Lighting Plots are usually not done before scenery begins building in the space.   We like our students to have some idea of what's going on in rehearsal before they submit their "final" plot.  

Any of you regularly use a scissors lift over personnel lifts?  

 For the scissors lift, except for dance or other open stage events,  I don't any advantages that outweigh its disadvantages.
I use scissors lifts all the time for events so i am not unfamiliar with their good and bad points.  I just don't see us using it that often on our stages where most of our performance are plays with sets.  

Anyone care to chime in either on or off list?  Soon would be nice.  

Leave aside weight issues i talked about last spring when Maintenance was in here wanting to put an over 5000 lift on our sprung floors.   This would be under 5000lbs…..but not by much, certainly not if i was in it…  : > )


DickA
TD, Cornell U
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