After positioning the stage trailer and painstakingly setting up the canopy over it on Tuesday, we received a phone call on Wednesday telling us we would need to move it. Yeah, right. Apparently, the best planning can go wrong when the fire department says they need an access road and the stage is too far back to allow for one.
Unfortunately, the guys were still cutting and painting stage decks at the shop (bad weather caused several setbacks in the process) so we couldn't do anything about it until late Wednesday or early Thursday. The organizer of the event said she could have a crew of 25-30 men to help with moving the stagfe and canopy. The decks were painted, (mostly) dried and delivered out to the field by 10:00 p.m. on Wednesday night. One would think the hard part would be over, but it was just beginning. . . the stage decks still had to be fitted onto the trailer in a very precise manner. . .
This was a slow and painful process. . . Once the decks were aligned on one side, they had to be drilled and riveted to the steel portion of the stage.
The stage and the decks had to be squared up and braced perfectly in order for the completed trailer to fold up correctly. . . no small feat. . .
I think we called it a day around 2 a.m. in order to get a little bit of sleep before meeting the "moving crew" at 9 a.m. Thursday morning. . .
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