   Yay I almost died today!
  Right. So we're working in our highschool's theatre again. It's maintenance week.We thought we'd fly in the first elex so we could take all the lights off it and clean them. So, we did that but we kinda hadn't remembered to tie off the handline so the unbalanced weight load wouldn't cause a runaway situation. So, we've taken all but four lights off the pipe batten. I'm standing by the last four lights, making notes about which circuts they were plugged into when the thing started moving up all by its self. That's when you're suppose to go "oh shiiiiiiiiiit."And that I did. After running to the flyrail and realizing the rope-lock was still locked and the handline was still travling through it. I grab onto the handline rope trying to stop the pipe batten from going up any further but the weight of the counterweights in the arbor were greater than the weight of the pipe batten and my body combined, so I went up the rope with it. It was moving slowly to being with, so by the time I was about 6 inches off the ground, everyone else in the room came running and we were all hanging on the damned rope for dear fucking life trying to pull it back down so we could remove the last few lights to clean, then tie the whole lineset off and sandbag the pipe so it wouldn't move anymore. Needless to say, it was an adventure and It probably wouldn't have been good if 500 pounds of steel counterweights fell on my head while trying to stop it from falling. Im gonna go tend to these blisters on my hands now :(   
  Do some coding to make you feel like you lived for a reason.It might have hurt getting those lights on your head, good thing you weigh 200 pounds.   ;  There were no lights on it when the counterweights were falling (thats the reason it was falling)I only way 130.. I was assuming the pipe weighed 70 or so, but it's probably more like a couple hundred... The lights could possibly weigh more like 800 pounds too.   ;  hehe okif you weighed as little as me if would have been steel girder wooden floor sandwich   ;  Yay.   