Monday, April 06, 2009

Carson & Barnes 2009 #3


IMG_1224, originally uploaded by bucklesw1.

Posted by Buckles at 4/06/2009 05:58:00 AM

8 comments:

Buckles said...

I must say I'm impressed!
The way the quarter poles are positioned makes it look the closest thing to a circus tent yet.
All it needs are a few flags.
What kind of seating do they have?

06 April, 2009 06:18
Anonymous said...

Buckles,
They are using four seat wagons, two on each end. The reserve sections that they have used in the past, that swing off the trailers, are used front and back. There is a track between the box seats and the ring. Looks very nice inside.
Erik Jaeger

06 April, 2009 08:35
Harry Kingston said...

They have flags and used them in Grapevine, TX but it depends on the winds.
There are no guy lines from the quarter poles as they are the mushroom type. All guys come off the towers.
Also the side wall is 13 feet this year and new side poles had to be made.
Inside it is all blue with small white stars all over the blue.
On the front towers there are seats up high for the spot light guys.
No ropes as there are nylon straps with rachets to guy out the tent.
Also Jamie Garcia, said they had to add sleeves near the top of the steel stakes to keep the new steel cable from slipping off and they are welded top and bottom of the sleeve.
Barbara and crew are real proud of this new tent and it was the daughters ideas to do this.
It is a new era of tents for them.
Tent is from Brazil, towers made in Mexico, sidewall from Europe.
And yes they have a real nice wide track.
Harry

06 April, 2009 11:34
Anonymous said...

Erik, Did you cut any time on the setup and tear down??? I know they were having problems........

1CYRK

06 April, 2009 17:38
Anonymous said...

We did cut time off both the build-up and pulldown. After they get a few more moves under their belt it should smooth out even more. They made the 4:30 matinee with a 100+ mile jump. I doubt it will ever move like the push pole operation that they had perfected over the years!
Erik Jaeger

06 April, 2009 18:41
Steve said...

I have never seen the C&B push pole operation ar work, but to have kept it going for 70 years means that there was a lot of knowledge about that type of tent on C&B and the concept worked real well for them.

A push poler was possibly never going to be able to be made big enough for the one ring format, hence this beautiful "European" type tent. BUT the Europeans don't do one nighters. I have owned and worked four polers and, in my experience, they are more labour intensive than push pole tents.

Once you get them guyed out they are a very safe wind tent.

The one nighters will sort out the men from the boys on C&B!

07 April, 2009 01:35
Buckles said...

I hope this included the long scrub poles and soap so they can wash the tent on days off.
I'm sure Erik explained that you start at the top and wash downward while being lowered on ropes.

07 April, 2009 06:40
Henry Schroer said...

There are quite a few Shows in Europe that do one nighters with two Shows a day and no days off for the whole season. Just a madder of getting the right system in place.

07 April, 2009 16:40

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