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    Posted: 03 July 2023 at 9:29pm
Lots of interesting stuff here, not just sound but lighting and production too. Some good pictures and links to youtube videos.
I especially like the picture in No. 14 of a bin & horn festival PA from 1980, properly stacked for coverage of the MK Bowl.
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Bloody Hell--It seems like I have just re-lived my life again looking at that lot.
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Photo 14 is great.

I have a question:

After the scaffold towers had been constructed, what methods were used to stack the speakers?
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Those PA scaffold towers are the tallest I have ever seen.

Would the speakers have been winched up, or maybe using a crane with a sling?

Here is a link to a close-up of photo 14:

https://i.postimg.cc/sx7kN8Qg/Entec-the-police-milton-keynes-bowl-1980.jpg

Edited by APC321 - 19 August 2023 at 10:31pm
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Gin wheel or hand ball.
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Yes, they would most likely have been hoisted up there.
When I was building systems (some years later, and using Martin F2 systems) in a similar style, the riggers used to put a rail with a fast chain hoist at the top of the tower, and we hoisted the cabinets up with it.
There was a festival we used to do on the continent where the local crew used a manual system of double-purchase rope hoists, they had been doing it that way for years and were very efficient. Actually faster than a chain hoist, but it took a lot of them pulling on the rope, looked like a tug-of-war game!



Edited by madboffin - 20 August 2023 at 10:51pm
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