I'm tired of the manufacturing part of our business. I do it because I have to but it's not really what I dreamed of doing when I was a little girl. Believe it or not I didn't take any pictures of the building of the new stage. Maybe it's that I don't really want to remember? We sold our big stage trailer over the winter so we knew we needed another stage. It just took us awhile to figure out what we needed. When an event came up inside the old Idaho State Penitentiary where a trailer cannot go, we (we??) made the decision to build individual, portable stage decks with adjustable legs. I think it was a good decision because we can use it indoors in the winter (and year 'round) and it can be configured to several optional sizes.
What should have taken about 4 hours on Friday ended up taking about 9 hours. We had to carry everything into the prison by unloading the trucks onto our flatbed trailer and then unloading them onto the grounds before going back for another trip. The load-in alone took 2 hours.
These are the only pictures I have of the new stage decks:
There are 15 of these new decks. We finished up the final details of the manufacturing end of things at about 1:30 a.m. Friday morning and then met at the shop at 8 a.m. and loaded everything up. These decks are stupid-heavy. Seriously.
Each deck gets three of these support frames. Each support frame has two adjustable legs. Each adjustable leg has 9 holes to adjust the height and an adjustable "foot" pad for precise height adjustment. Just for your information, that is 15 decks, 45 support frames, 90 adjustable legs, 810 holes in the adjustable legs and 90 adjustable foot pads. Not that anyone is counting.
For now, they look very shiny and pretty. They are coated with garage floor paint and are very, very sturdy. And heavy. Did I mention heavy? The redeeming quality to these heavy decks is that they latch easily together with coffin locks- basically a latch that pulls them together and locks. Rob and Kurt are ingenious that way. . .
15 heavy decks. 810 drilled holes. The set up is in a prison. Is there a little irony here? Maybe.
We thought we'd be done by 2:00. We left at 5:00 when they closed and still had work to do on Saturday. . .
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