After a day of training, volunteers, working with paid employees, learned to split and shape rocks from the site, which were maneuvered into place either by hand or via a series of overhead cables rigged up in the surrounding trees.
To create the scene, the crew used two externally identical cars; one was drivable, and the other was a shell of car, and was hooked to a cable rig.
The study did not include ergonomics, and could not indicate how operator workload was affected by adding the weight of a snatch block to that of the cable and chain rigging.
In any case, there's much to see here, including the one-room log cabin Mr. Anthony built at 14 and the log house he began in 1988 and is still tweaking, made from heart pine salvaged from an old mill and put together with the help of his homemade rigging — cables and pulleys strung from the branches of pine trees.
If your boat doesn't have some kind of wind direction indicator ( windex ) at the top of the mast, tie a couple nine-inch pieces of old cassette tape, VHS tape, or oiled yarn to the shrouds the rigging cables that hold up the mast.
He displays his engineering side in "To Reach the Clouds" when he discusses the intricacies of covertly transporting his equipment to a tower roof and the all-night project of rigging the cable.
Here there's plenty of metal in the form of pipes and cables that suggest ships' rigging and suspension bridges, but the structure is anchored by substantial lengths of gnarled and ocean-grooved wood.
Added to these three teams are two advance teams, who also leapfrog each other - with four trucks each full of weather protection, rigging, power cables, and all the things that must be installed before the stage can even be put up.
Metal barriers stop an early-evening commuter crowd from exploring a backstage area that is a chaos of scaffolding, rigging, giant cables and heavy-duty packing trunks peopled by purposeful-looking men in hard hats and young women talking urgently into their mobiles.
If the laptop lacks a wireless network, forget about using the robot's personal e-mail address and plan on spending time prone on the floor, awkwardly typing your commands on a nearly vertical keyboard or somehow rigging the cables so that you can bring laptop to lap.
The upper boundary condition for the drilling riser cable is rig motions that are influenced by rig design, wave and wind loads.
