SNAPSHOT: SUPER RIGGING JOB
It was great in the days when you could send your rigging ahead, and know it would be set up safely by someone else, especially in a seemingly impossible situation. In this case the rigging had to be hung from 3 points, one being 200' from the other 2. Proffessional Rigger, Leo "Coke" Coffey,(who was formerly private rigger for Celeste) did this job for us on the Dobritch International Circus at the CNE, in Toronto, in the '60's. He hung two cables from the grand stand which was 120' high, then erected a 110' pole 200' away behind the stage for the other end, the cable was run through pulley blocks and pulled tight with a truck to give us a solid rigging.
posted by 24-HOUR-MAN | 9:25 AM
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Seems I just lost a fairly long well-written (for me) letter -- anyhoo, Bill , did either of you learn any new languages , what with all of your international traveling and all -- also too , " Le Beer " does not constitute speaking French , I'm told .
I managed to learn to speak German, I had taken it in High School and although that was way back I did find some things came back. Trudy spoke English to the help, and they spoke German to her, and they understood each other fine, beats the heck out of me. There was one driver on the show who spoke perfect English to Trudy, but only German to me.
Bravo! That is a sensatoional rigging job.
Sensational I meant to spell!
Al Dobritch had a sense of humor, when I showed him this snapshot he said, "is no good, committee will ask, where are other three airplanes"
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