<html><body><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Will $30,000 even pay for the engineer and the architect?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Bill Nelson via Stagecraft" <stagecraft@theatrical.net><br><b>To: </b>"Stagecraft Mailing List" <stagecraft@theatrical.net><br><b>Cc: </b>billn@peak.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Sunday, November 26, 2017 9:51:57 AM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [SML] FOH hang and focus safety improvement needed<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">> I don't know how we'll ever afford, or store, even the simplest of these<br>> solutions. The real sticking point, though, for almost all of these options,<br>> is setting it up and moving it around the room over and over and over until<br>> you are happy with the design. That makes the idea of a truss/catwalk awfully<br>> attractive.<br>><br>> My experience at other boxes leaves me with a real distaste for bounce focus,<br>> but even that would be better than the ladder work we're doing now.<br><br>Thanks for your input. Like you, I hate bounce focus and it is the most<br>expensive solution. But something needs to be done, and we currently have a<br>BOD that is willing to try finding/funding an improvement.<br><br>I agree that set-up, moving and storing are major concerns. Most of the<br>volunteers would probably be unwilling to be trained in doing so. That reduces<br>the desirability of motorized electrics, the Straddle and scaffolding. But it<br>is extremely difficult to get volunteers to help with lighting, primarily<br>because they are unwilling to contend with the hook ladder - or any kind of<br>ladder at that height.<br><br>The BOD thinks they can get a donor to provide $30,000+ to fund the upgrade,<br>primarily based on the safety hazards of using the hook ladder.<br><br>Unless the group can come up with other possible solutions, I best like the<br>idea of the mobile catwalk on tracks fastened to the HL and HR walls. It is<br>possibly the least expensive of the various proposed solutions, and would<br>require the least training for people whom are not tech savvy. My biggest<br>concern is whether the existing walls can support such a system without adding<br>bracing. A lesser concern is whether it would be a problem storing it over the<br>back row of seats when not in use.<br><br>Bill<br><br><br><br>____________________________________________________________<br>For list information see <http://stagecraft.theprices.net/><br>Stagecraft mailing list<br>Stagecraft@theatrical.net<br>http://theatrical.net/mailman/listinfo/stagecraft_theatrical.net<br></div></div></body></html>