<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Richard,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You’re kidding. Right? Way more difficult to use. Training is worse. I haven’t looked since 2004, but rated equipment like rope clamps is difficult to find. Not KISS, but KSF (Kill Somebody Fast).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sam</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 21, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" class="">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Bill,<div class="">What about ship rigging w/ sand bags, belaying pins, etc? KISS!<div class="">/s/ Richard</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Bill Nelson via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank" class="">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> Why can't a short pinrail, inaccessible to the audience, be used, to save<br class="">
> money and promote safety? Even a previously unused ropelock position on<br class="">
> your rail could be utilized.<br class="">
> /s/ Richard<br class="">
<br class="">
Rail? This theatre doesn't have any fly space. Everything over the stage is<br class="">
dead-hung.<br class="">
<br class="">
I suppose something could be installed over the audience seating, but then<br class="">
crew would have to be taught how to counterweight battens properly.<br class="">
<br class="">
Without having permanent stage crew, I do not consider counterweight systems<br class="">
to be safe enough to use.<br class="">
<br class="">
Bill<br class=""></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>