<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">Thank you all for your responses. I will say that I agree that rigging is a dangerous field to not know what you are doing... Which is why I would never ever claim to be a rigger and I certainly try not to let anyone mistakenly believe that I know what I am talking about.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That being said, when there is the choice of me doing the best I can to get the right gear in place, and staying quiet cause "that's not my job", I have to err on the side of doing something rather than there being no oversight at all on the rigging of the wall.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I'm sure some of you would love to argue (though you probably wouldn't have to argue that hard) that is insane for a company to be hanging those kinds of weights without passing it through a qualified rigger or structural engineer. And for the most part, you are right, but, it's the situation I find myself in now... And it's not even my department. Just that old problem that ld's are magically expected to know how to calculate loads.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I do what reading and research I can, but in this instance, I could not find solid and *comprehensible* answers which is why I turned to the list. I, through my career, have always seen the way more than qualified membership of this list as an invaluable resource of some of the top professionals in the world... Which is why it's a little odd to get chided for coming to the list for help. If I had personal relationships with people like Mr. Sapsis, Mr. Hall, Mr. Vick, or the myriad of others on this list, I would have called them personally for help. But since I don't, I use the best way that I know how. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Anyways, thanks again though for those of you who provided links and advice on how to proceed. I am still a bit confused as to how far to go and on what direction though. It sounds like getting a highly accurate load calc is very difficult, so I guess the question is less about knowing exactly how much is on each motor, and more about getting a close enough calculation to know what kind of hardware to use... 1T vs. 2T motors, 5/8" shackles or 3/4", 3/8" steel vs 1/2"? I really do like the idea of load cells, and will definitely push them as essential, but all the cells in the world won't do you a lick of good of you show up on site with the wrong hardware and I guess that's what I am trying to figure out. </p>
<p dir="ltr">From the responses, it sounds like doing a 4 point spread calc is much more appropriate than the 6 point, but is it good enough? What if the load is not centered how would that effect the relationship of the motors in the system?</p>
<p dir="ltr">Again, thank you all for your responses. I truly appreciate you all being available as a resource for those of us struggling through this journey!</p><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
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