for this install we were doing the entire fly system, however, it was all dead hung so we didn't have to rig up any arbors or head blocks.
well anyways, here is a pic of the space right before we started. notice that there is nothing hanging from the above the stage yet.
Day one we arrived at 8am as per usual and guess what? we ran into problems that weren't our fault at all. we use these special clamps to hang all the points directly from the the building truss. well, the architect told us that the building truss was 5 inches wide. well, someone putting the building together never got the memo that all of the truss was supposed to have a 5 inch width, so they put 4 inch wide truss where all of our points needed to go, and even 3 inch truss on the sides. well, luckily we could have the clamps we needed over-nighted to us and we had a full day of work we could do without the clamps.so, after we figured out that fiasco, we off loaded the truck and assembled the battens, and went over them with some paint to make sure there was no bare metal showing (to keep them from rusting) then we laid out all of the points on the ground with tape so we could just put a laser in the spot so we would know where it goes on the grid. oddly enough, that took all day. (10 hours of work)
Day 2 the beam clamps weren't going to be there until about lunch time so we went over the second half of the pipes with some touch up paint. we also assembled the raceways for the electrics, and the track for the main curtain. after that we went to lunch. when we got back we finally had the beam clamps we needed!so we started hanging all of our points and had the majority of them up by the end of the day. (10 hours of work)
Day 3 we finished hanging all of our points but some of them were really weird because we never got any beam clamps for 3 inch truss sections. the system designer decided to use some eye bolts and washers that hung in the center of the beams. (if you are confused let me try and explain, this is kind of what the truss looks like.
the top and bottom beams are two sections of angle iron back to back. the eye bolt goes between those sections of angle iron and the washers support all of the weight. (there are washers on both sides of the beam to clamp it in place))after all of the points were up we got the electrics and curtain track up. then we went home for the day. (10 hours of work)
day 4 we finished putting up the last two pipes and leveled everything out, then we went through and moused everything (zip tied everything in a way so it couldn't untwist or come loose) and we were done. (4 hours of work) for a total of about 108 hours for the summer.
and here is an image of the finished project. It doesn't look like much but there were a lot more complications that would have taken way more time to explain then i have at the moment. if you really want to know, ask about it next time you see me.
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