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<blockquote data-quote="Alan Hamilton" data-source="post: 148337" data-attributes="member: 1799"><p>Re: Lighten the load</p><p></p><p>I just saw this thread. We've been spending some time for the past few weeks working on things for these same lines. What I've been concentrating on is repackaging some things to not only make them lighter overall, but to make them more manageable as far as stacking in truck pack. The lighting has went thru a lot of changes and our cable trunks haven't really been as well thought out to take advantage of those changes. Going totally LED US has led to the loss of a soco trunk, but we hadn't really taken the time to consider how much soco redundancy we were still carrying.... Twofers, breakins and breakouts, and orphaned that soco jumpers that serve no purpose now... but still in a case with stuff we do still need. </p><p></p><p>And it's like that in a lot of other places too... Where system upgrades have orphaned some things that we still carry for no good reason. In many cases it seems like redundancy, but in reality when I really start inventorying things it is redundancy for redundancy.</p><p></p><p>I'm also trying to find places where we can morph to lighter weight cases. Or maybe split out cases and have 2 cases that are designed to be riders instead of one case that might be too heavy alone to lift easily/safely that then would normally ride on the floor. With an eye toward having the cases divided and packed so for the gigs where we can, we just take one of those cases. We might lose a little redundancy, but we're not losing total redundancy. Maybe we don't have a backup for the backup. And as dedicated riders, we gain floorspace in the truck. Which is also part of the thought process here... Not just lightening the load but gaining floor space for the truck. And riders condense the number of things that need to be individually pushed as well.</p><p></p><p>And there are little things that out of habit become part of a show load, and the little things add up. Like bringing dedicated Clearcom cables whether we're using 3 stations or 12 stations. Yet already have a full case load of mic cables that we won't be using half of onstage anyway. Or taking the 250' DMX snake when we'll be using only 1 universe with only 100' needed and already taking a DMX cable trunk that has 100' DMX cables in it. But when a lighting rig is going out, usually out of habit the DMX snake gets put on the pick list... even when we could get by without it.</p><p></p><p>I was looking in the rigging trunks the other day, and they are loaded with stuff that's useful when needed, but totally taking up space and adding weight normally. And we should know when we'll need the type of things I'm talking about before ever getting to the gig... extra this... extra that.... Cheeseboughs with eyes... double cheesebouroughs and more double cheeseboroughs... and single cheeseboroughs... and pipe clamps.... Let alone excess shackles, truss picks.... yada yada yada....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alan Hamilton, post: 148337, member: 1799"] Re: Lighten the load I just saw this thread. We've been spending some time for the past few weeks working on things for these same lines. What I've been concentrating on is repackaging some things to not only make them lighter overall, but to make them more manageable as far as stacking in truck pack. The lighting has went thru a lot of changes and our cable trunks haven't really been as well thought out to take advantage of those changes. Going totally LED US has led to the loss of a soco trunk, but we hadn't really taken the time to consider how much soco redundancy we were still carrying.... Twofers, breakins and breakouts, and orphaned that soco jumpers that serve no purpose now... but still in a case with stuff we do still need. And it's like that in a lot of other places too... Where system upgrades have orphaned some things that we still carry for no good reason. In many cases it seems like redundancy, but in reality when I really start inventorying things it is redundancy for redundancy. I'm also trying to find places where we can morph to lighter weight cases. Or maybe split out cases and have 2 cases that are designed to be riders instead of one case that might be too heavy alone to lift easily/safely that then would normally ride on the floor. With an eye toward having the cases divided and packed so for the gigs where we can, we just take one of those cases. We might lose a little redundancy, but we're not losing total redundancy. Maybe we don't have a backup for the backup. And as dedicated riders, we gain floorspace in the truck. Which is also part of the thought process here... Not just lightening the load but gaining floor space for the truck. And riders condense the number of things that need to be individually pushed as well. And there are little things that out of habit become part of a show load, and the little things add up. Like bringing dedicated Clearcom cables whether we're using 3 stations or 12 stations. Yet already have a full case load of mic cables that we won't be using half of onstage anyway. Or taking the 250' DMX snake when we'll be using only 1 universe with only 100' needed and already taking a DMX cable trunk that has 100' DMX cables in it. But when a lighting rig is going out, usually out of habit the DMX snake gets put on the pick list... even when we could get by without it. I was looking in the rigging trunks the other day, and they are loaded with stuff that's useful when needed, but totally taking up space and adding weight normally. And we should know when we'll need the type of things I'm talking about before ever getting to the gig... extra this... extra that.... Cheeseboughs with eyes... double cheesebouroughs and more double cheeseboroughs... and single cheeseboroughs... and pipe clamps.... Let alone excess shackles, truss picks.... yada yada yada.... [/QUOTE]
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