Follow the Rhino Staging UpRigger Neil Werries as he and the crew hang the rigging steel in the CAJUNDOME for Keith Urban on 8/27/11.You'll see the trip up from the 85' high spotlight catwalk up to about 140'. You'll see them do a PPE safety check then tie into the fall arrest system. They go to where the ground riggers put the laser on the ceiling to know where to put the "point." (0:42)
They're standing on 4" and 1 ½" steel pipe as they work there.
The most critical time where riggers earn every penny they're paid is the moment when he must pull the shackle pin and put it back in without dropping it on anyone 140' below. 2:57, 4:30,
You'll see how hard that is at about 7:45 in the video when he uses hands, feet, arms, legs and his head to hold everything and himself together.
After they hang a couple of points, they lower the camera back down to the ground by rope. It plays back at high speed giving them the Munchkin-like voices at the very end of the video as Brian Viator slides into view momentarily.
Thanks Rhino. Good work.
Phil Ashurst