It was a pretty heavy prop.
When my father put his own act together we had one of those steel globes to load and unload until "Anna May" outgrew it (not to mention the track she rolled it on) and was replaced by a barrel, much better I could stand it on end and stuff other things inside when traveling.
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Thursday, September 17, 2015
To Larry Louree
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While I was building the lighted column
bottle walk for Charly (& Taurus) they
welded up a steel practice version that
took 3 men & a boy to move around
I would think this is far more difficult
& uncomfortable for an elephant than a cat
I believe the elephant's toe bones are at
the front & sides perimeter of the foot
Thanks for explaining this. Were the vertical parts regular plumbers type pipe or some type of structural type of pipe?
Either way, they probably were some very heavy suckers!
Since the practice bottle bridge
I mentioned Larry was for a cat
it looked a little different than
the photo above but it was made
of structural 4" pipe & 2" x 8"
rectangular tube & the top discs
were of quarter inch steel which
all added up to plenty of kilos
The finished prop however was
built primarily of aluminum but
the cylinders were of rolled
expanded steel welded to rings
at the tops & square plates at
the bottoms for attachments
The top discs were of aluminum
in pairs separated by thin foam
to allow the slight compression
which activated the microswitch
to light each column in turn
Although it was possible to be
handled by Charly it would have
been awkward to pass it to him
It ended up being suspended in
the area above the arena until
it was lowered in for Taurus
(more than you ever asked for)
That's awesome, Chic! Great info and it helps me picture how it was built. I like how you made the switches work.
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