Members BillESC Posted September 11, 2016 Members Share Posted September 11, 2016 My Rotary Club's biggest fund raiser each year for the last 26 years. 1500 people for all you can eat seafood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shaster Posted September 12, 2016 Members Share Posted September 12, 2016 Look up, look way up.... sorry that's a Canadian reference. Nice set up, but I get vertigo just looking at the speakers. I think I mentioned my daughter had to run a Genie lift in her fourth year tech class - hanging lights in a theatre. In fact I even had a brief lighting career but just couldn't stand the heights. I don't mind band lighting gigs, but theatre work is too much for this chicken. So with all that food, I hope the crew got to eat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted September 12, 2016 Members Share Posted September 12, 2016 My partner spent pretty much his entire career in a 30' man lift, I spend 3 or 4 days a year in a 60' boom lift. You do get used to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted September 14, 2016 Author Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 Heights don't bother me at all. I own and use a Genie AWP25 on a lot of my jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pro Sound Guy Posted September 14, 2016 Members Share Posted September 14, 2016 Sure makes tree trimming, painting, siding work much better then using ladder jacks, scaffolding or just a single ladder a breeze! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted September 15, 2016 Members Share Posted September 15, 2016 Sure makes tree trimming' date=' painting, siding work much better then using ladder jacks, scaffolding or just a single ladder a breeze![/quote'] Once you have used the big boy tools, it's really hard to go back to the "good 'ol days"! For example, with a boom lift or scissor lift for this one particular job, it used to take 3 guys 5 hours to do the install and with the lift it takes an hour and a half with 2 guys. Do the math and the savings easily pays for the lift time (don't have to pay for delivery or pick-up, we just share the total hours). Oh, and I don't hurt for 2 days afterwards either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted September 15, 2016 Author Members Share Posted September 15, 2016 Aged is so right. I recently did a projector and screen install in a church. Because of the pews and altar layout, I was unable to use my genie. Had to use a 28' extension ladder which added hours, hours and sore muscles to the task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted September 18, 2016 Members Share Posted September 18, 2016 What's the cost to the client of servicing those projectors up there? Did you have any problems with vibration from hanging the projector? I have troubleshot several installations like that and there was enough vibration coupled through from the roof diaphragm that the pixels were moving as much as 0.25" on the screen causing the symptom of loss of focus (that's what it looked like). I won't install like that, too many bad feelings down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BillESC Posted September 19, 2016 Author Members Share Posted September 19, 2016 Time will tell. The installation is about 60 old and no calls so far. Any service call will be my standard hourly rate as I can reach the projector from a 10' step ladder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted September 19, 2016 Members Share Posted September 19, 2016 Looks like they are higher than that... Yikes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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