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Matt.L:
According to a technical manager i have worked with there is a new ruling in the uk that from later on this year all tallescopes will have to be motorised and control from the top of the tallescope, is this the same anywhere else? Surely its suicide?

Scott:

--- Quote from: Matt.L on Mar 04, 2007, 07:21 am ---According to a technical manager i have worked with there is a new ruling in the uk that from later on this year all tallescopes will have to be motorised and control from the top of the tallescope, is this the same anywhere else? Surely its suicide?

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Since (I dare say) most of us in the United States don't know what a tallescope is (some kind of fancy "torch"?), I suspect we will get over it.

Care to educate us?

Matt.L:
a tallescope is a mobile ladder normally extendable to 40+ feet, there on a base (2-3 meters x 1) consisting of 4 wheels. 

cuelight:
Tallescope - Aluminium vertical ladder with an adjustable base on wheels, used for erecting and focusing lanterns, reaching the grid etc.
They can also be known as "Genies" or "Winch-Ups".

Scott:

Ok.

Well, we have manual genies in the US but I have only to date ever seen them used for scenic/rigging purposes.

Any genies for people that I've come across are "motorized".  All "motorized" genies that I have seen have control from the top.

And...assuming we are talking about the same device...no one I know has yet committed suicide from one.

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