<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>If you can provide the engineer with the construction drawings for the building and drawings of the rolling catwalk you want, it will simplify and speed his work, and thus probably save you money. The more you can provide, the less the engineer needs to figure out, the cheaper it will be.</div><div><br></div><div>Stuart</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device</div></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Don Taco via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> </div><div>Date: 11/27/2017 5:19 AM (GMT+10:00) </div><div>To: Stagecraft Mailing List <stagecraft@theatrical.net> </div><div>Cc: taco@peak.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [SML] FOH hang and focus safety improvement needed </div><div><br></div></div><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>