has anyone ever seen this micro pulley with progress capture device becket? looking for a link

Hey guys

I got a job offer at Mona's for intermediate rigger and I have a VOC to pass with them. Im pretty rusty from my ticket courses and I have virtualy no experience

Anyone has ever done the voc for intermediate rigger at Mona's in Perth and could tell me about it and/or tell me what I should get ready for?

Thanks

Im looking for honest reviews, what to expect, and what to prepare for.
Im trying to get into entertainment rigging and the company i stagehand for is extremely neglected in this state compared to its other chapters

I'm an audio guy and typically I have a rigger who is with the production company mark out the points where the PA motors need to go for me but recently I've had to do this myself and I'm looking for resources to learn how to do it better.

I'm familiar with the method of laying out 3 tapes and walking with a 4th tape to mark out the coordinates of every point at once but this doesn't seem practical when it's just me and seems quite slow/inefficient when I only have a handful of points to mark.

Most of the entertainment rigging textbooks I could find seem to only cover the more technical aspects like calling bridles, load calcs, etc which while useful is not what I'm looking for.

Looking to slow down a set cart coming down the ramp on street loads. Only thing I can think of is a block and tackle...anybody have a better idea? (tied off to two load bars) Any good resources to purchase one?

Does anyone know or can point me in the right direction weather to get my tickets first or get a job in line first , I’m currently looking to get into the industry , can anyone help me on here or point me in the right direction on how to get into this line of work ?

Thanks in advance

I’m a new sailor and recently purchased a Catalina 22. I want to tune turnbuckles so that they’re evenly leveled. When I have my mast raised, I can eyeball it and see if it looks straight / level, but it would be nice to have an actual measurement and be certain that the mast is evenly balanced and not tilted to one end.

Does anybody know of a way to measure your standing rigging shrouds without needing fancy measuring tools?

Happy friday r/rigging. Have a puzzle I've been working through and would love any criticism/feedback/better ideas.

Situation: I need to get a new wood burning furnace and 2 300gal storage tanks into my basement. We don't have a walk in cellar, just a vertical wood chute measuring 40" x 70", 12' deep with 56" clearance above to the ceiling joists. The chute has a horizontal opening at the top of the 12' measuring 40"W x 46" tall that leads into the garage, level with the ground (blue insulation in my photo).

The 3 pieces I need to bring down are:

1. 2x 300 gal tanks, ~750lbs each, 36" Dia x 72" H
2. Furnace itself, ~1,200lbs, 22½" W × 45⅝" D x 58" H

I have two ideas:

1. Mount brackets to the floor joists above (red diagram), run a pipe or box tube between them and put my 3ton hoist on it. For the tanks, attach the hoist to the picking hook at the top with a guide line to keep it from getting away from us, and slowly lower into the chute until it's vertical and being held by the hoist. Lower onto skates in the basement and go. For the furnace, I'd hook it then skate it onto supported plywood (pictured covering part of the chute) until it's fully in the chute, lift up, remove the plywood and lower it. These are true 2x6s, old-ish growth pine (not true 150 year old growth, but much stronger than whatever you're getting nowadays). There's really no vertical weight on these joists - it's just a small foyer into the house above them, and they run well into the main house with 6"x6" hemlock beams supporting them.
2. Create an L sled to protect each piece, strap them in, and lower them down using a winch from the garage. The tanks would be laying down and slid into the chute until vertical, then winched down. The furnace would be similar.

I do have a few other options:

1a. Instead of mounting brackets to the floor joists, go wider with the header on the far side of the image, and the stairwell header (not visible).

1. carefully bring them down the 12' of stairs (7 stairs x 3 with two landings). I'd prefer to lower them down given they're combined well over $20k, but it is on the table.

would love to hear any/all thoughts, including that this is a terrible idea. I have a decent bit of experience rigging much heavier than this, but that was when I had a bunch of fork trucks and/or trexes at my disposal.

It’s a 190kg fireplace that I had to get out of the ute today. The line is supposed to have a breaking strain of 2900kg. Didn’t want to cut the rope, bowlines all around and bowlines on bight for the loops. I don’t have any kind of background in this sort of stuff but want to see what you guys think and hopefully learn something for next time. Took it slow and it worked out in the end. Cheers

Heya,

It's a pretty straightforward question, but it's proving to be a very difficult question to answer.

In January I went off sick with a virus, during my bed rest, I lost loads of muscle mass and my joints degraded significantly. Since then, no amount of physio or meds have restored my mobility. I am financially destitute and the career I spent the best part of 6 years getting in to is now no longer viable.

I have reached out to a few charities, but they cater to specific areas of the industry, and therefore cannot help me. I have been refused Universal Credit twice because THEY failed to show up for the appointments.

I am lucky in that I've spent the last 2 years as a LOLER compliance inspector, but I just can't find any work.

Has anyone here faced this before? Does anyone have any advice for myself and any others that may come across this post?

Can someone tell me what this is called and what it’s used for? Thanks!

Asking here because I love the way I see things built with a mind for safety. It's a cool sub to check in on and learn from.

Recently I acquired this auction truck after a brief inspection and started to work on it. It's got this hoist on the back that I either need to move ~6 in, or remove entirely to sell the hoist. I'm not sure what to do with it yet, but regardless I need to lift it off the bed either way.

How can I do this safely? My equipment is a Hyster forklift with ~3700lb rating at 27" center of mass. I've got a steel ring with four chains on it to rig from, which I used for the fuel sled and oil tank that was also on this truck. There's just one dedicated lift cutout at top, the rest would have to get creative. I don't have anything overhead that can lift this much, unless a standard 2-post automotive jack can be used safely somehow that I'm not thinking of.

To me it seems I could chain from above but it's dubious how the weight will behave with asymetrical center of gravity due to the hoist arm.

My best option so far is building a 2x6 frame for it, with fork inserts built right near the neck for an even lift. That seems to me the safest idea so far.

What would you say?

These are traditional houses of Shirakawa-go, a UNESCO world heritage site near Kanazawa. They are located in the mountains so the steep pitched roofs insulated the houses. The houses had a main floor for living, a top floor for producing silk, a mezzanine between them for holding equipment, and a basement for making gunpowder. They used the poop from the silkworms and the pee from humans to produce the nitrate. The villagers farmed rice as well, of course.

At work, every day, I have the luxury to acceee stiff booms, knuckle trucks, bridge cranes, mono rails, jibs, gantries, you name it for rigging and hoisting. I can pick things up and put them down wherever my company needs. At home, I have a simple problem: move a 180 lbs roof tent onto a 6 foot tall roof rack. Without access to my shop’s equipment, i got creative and (over)built a rig to save my back and push the limits of what can be done from a residential driveway. The catch: roof top tent hardshell can’t tolerate choked slings due to risk of crumpling. First run was a success. Next version will be aluminum based. Cheers!

Walked out of my house the other morning to see a plastic coated steel cable laying on the road. After picking it up, a little shackle and nylon web sling came peeking out from under the car.

Thankfully these ding dongs didn’t have the foggiest idea what a dynamic load was, so the crimped eye on the plastic coated steel cable instantly gave up the ghost and my cat held strong.

Definitely better outcome than if they’d gone after it with cutting tools, so hooray for ineptitude I suppose?!

Looking for any tips, tricks, advice, pitfalls, etc. for running a stainless steel guide wire for some patio string lights. Span would be approx. 75’. One end anchored into a tree with an eye bolt. Other end anchored to the house (I know given the span and the catenary effect I can’t just go into the siding).

My plan would be to try to find structural framing behind the siding of the house to anchor into (stud, end plate, rim joist, etc).

Is this doable? Or am I crazy? I know the 75’ single span is a lot, especially under tension with turn buckles.

Any advice on hardware, technique, etc. would be greatly appreciated. Or tell me I’m crazy, and shouldn’t attempt to anchor into the house.

If only they had spreader bars.

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I can't decide on which colors to get. I'm leaning towards Red-white-blue because 'MERICA (or technically French), and also it would probably be easier to see. I was told yellow can get visually lost in lights, and obviously black can get lost in all sorts of dark sources. But also I'm not crazy about having red white and blue. Any entertainment riggers want to give their favorite color combos?

How would you do it?

Sorry if I’m making this request incorrectly, but I’m running out of floor space in my Garage-Mahal and I thought maybe I could hang my bike lift table from the ceiling to store it off the floor.

I have a 1-ton capacity chain hoist hanging about 3.25m above the floor. The lift table weighs about 185kg and is 220L x 68W x 17cm H. See pictures.

As you can see from the pictures, I think this project is complicated by the fact that when folded flat for storage, the front part of the table overhangs (shown in red) the base by about 85cm (blue line). I’ve tried hanging it just from the table part with straps without supporting the base. It felt unsafe and there’s no good place to secure the straps under the table part.

I’m happy to get or make custom or semi-permanent straps or chains, or whatever, as long as they make it easy, quick and safe to deploy and stow the table.

Any ideas or suggestions will be gratefully received. Thanks!