This truss was about 2' x 2' or so and came in 2 or 3 sections as I remember.
The stage hand asked us how the thing was, and we told him 750 lbs. I think that was just the best guess that we had between Scotty's guess, and Jimmy and my guess.
We really didn't include the weight of the cables powering the thing as well. So, the guy goes up into the fly gallery, and lowers a pipe, and we haul out our spanset and shackles, make a quick basket and up it goes.
This is our first show of the tour, so we are feeling pretty good that we have trimmed the truss up there.
We do the show, clear the stage and stagehand dude, flies the pipe back down so we can take off the spanset and shackles. The pipe comes down and it is bent like a roller coaster. The weight of the truss hanging from two points has made his iron pipe look like a piece of spaghetti!
The guy comes down from the fly rig and sees it, and says... I thought you said that your truss was only 750 lbs. We look at each other, and say to the guy, It is!
The guy should have known what the weight was when he was loading the weights into the arbors in the fly rig. We had no real idea up until that point. Thank goodness that we didn't have a fly cable failure and have the whole thing crash down to the stage and kill someone.
This was one of the first bonding experiences that Jimmy and I had. Know when to keep your mouth shut... and back the other guy's play.
Thats what the cool guys do!
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