[SML] Ceiling Fans on Battens

[Dale Farmer]

On 2/9/2021 8:52 PM, Nigel Worsley via Stagecraft wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 01:45, Thomas (Tom) Marhenke
> <tmarhenk at hamilton.edu> wrote:
>> Thanks Nigel, he wants the fans to come in, top of show, to move detritus, already telling him this may not work.
> 
> They are going to have to run full pelt then, likely to be rather
> noisy! Maybe some smaller and slower fans could provide the main
> visual effect and blowers at stage level could do the moving of the
> detritus.
> 
> Nigel Worsley
> 
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Big industrial ceiling fans are pretty spendy to buy, and good luck 
finding a rental shop that has them.  Maybe a rental shop that does a 
lot of tent weddings might have some smaller residential sized ceiling 
fans.   Moving enough air from up in the battens to lift detritus from 
the ground is gonna be another challenge that may prove difficult. 
Might have to provide eye protection for the first several rows of 
audience seating and get additional insurance for the hazard you are 
creating.

If you have some rotating fan gobos you can project on the ceiling of 
the house, and borrow from the janitors a couple of those coil fans (no 
idea what their proper name is) they use to dry wet carpets, then have 
them move some low lying fog or haze.   masking the noise is left as an 
exercise for the reader.

Good luck with it.  let us know what you end up doing.

Dale