Hi Buckles, Here are some pictures of the NBC tent we did in 1975. This was built by Leaf in 1974 . NBC sold the tent to TVW Enterprises at the end of the Peter Pan tour. They used it for different events in Australia for 5-6 years. |
Friday, February 17, 2012
From Casey Gibbs #1
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My wife has some business appointments in Tampa this afternoon and wants to swing by the Fair on the way home to check out the exhibits.
With that thought in mind I think I'll pick up Jamie and Kay on the way and while Barbara is examining the latest potato peeler, the kids can ride the Simp-hoister and the Goof-twister and they can watch while I make a couple of drops on the Giant Bungee Jump.
Surely you jest.
Bob Kitto
Not at all.
In fact I'm considering a try out at the Buccaneer Spring Training Camp.
Casey,
Thanks for the photos of that monster tent.
I wonder what the dead man looked like at both ends to anchor it.
We sure miss Bobby and his unvarnished jackpots.
He could spread it on like cold peanut butter.
Gone but not forgotten.
Harry in Texas
Hi Casey
Is that a huge curved flying track
mounted to the elaborate truss
affair that looks heavy as hell
Did you have loads of chain hoists
Can't imagine this all went up
with just falls
We had to dig a 5 ft square 6 ft deep hole at each end filled with concrete for the dead man. I had a Chinese crew digging them in Hong Kong and i told my interpreter to tell them when they got to Chicago to stop digging ! I thought i would get a good laugh out of it but they did not get it. Chic we had a winch called a Cable Climer that used 3/8 cable.There were 2 on each pole that we raised the truss system then when it was up we pinned through the pole and put the weight on the pins. We had Groush in L.A. build the truss system all aluminum. George Van Burain had built the track. Again my circus days paid off.
Sounds like a Chinese mass grave
to me Casey (saves on concrete)
They use those cable climbing
winches on construction scaffolds
Only issues are the excess cable
& their tendency not to sync
We got them to sync pretty good and had a master control board that we could stop-up-down each winch individuality.And we would trim up the cables after we trimmed out. the only cable was the length of the hang.When we were done with the dead men we would just leave in the ground and cover with some dirt left from the dig.
I think Buckles "Simp Hoister"
would be a great name for those
cable climbing winches Casey
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