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Boyzone fly “Over The Top” with Hoist UK

Saturday, September 12th, 2009

Entertainment lifting specialists Hoist UK have recently supplied a custom performer flying winch system to rigging specialists Over The Top for the recent Boyzone and X Factor tour.

The winch is used during the tour to fly dancers above the stage, then used for the encore to fly all five members of Boyzone to the “B” stage and then back to the main stage.

Paul Jordan, director of Hoist UK comments “The winch is a custom version of our popular range of pilewind winches and in its fully built condition it has ten rope drums spanning over seven metres. As you expect it’s quite unique and is manufactured in modules housed in one metre custom sections of 52cm truss with each module containing two rope drums.

Tony Dickson, fellow director of Hoist UK adds “Each of the drum modules are then linked using a drive shaft to the next module, and then to a central module containing the geared motor assembly. The winch is capable of a twenty metre lifting height with variable speed lifting and soft start and stop. It’s also designed, manufactured and tested to our usual standard with all the relevant safety features in place for its intended purpose”

Mark Wade, director of Over The Top Rigging adds “It was great to work with Paul and Tony from Hoist UK. The system they have supplied me worked great for the Boyzone tour and it’s perfect for the touring industry, as I can connect as many of the drum modules as needed for the job.

The system is really simple for me to control and gets the desired visual effect. I now have a piece of equipment in my fleet which is flexible enough to use on a whole host of future shows”….Read more

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Hoist UK – Release two new products

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Hoist UK are proud to announce that two new products have been added to their entertainment portfolio:

LX Ladder:

The Hoist UK LX Ladder is a purpose built aluminium ladder beam designed to BS8118 – Structural use of aluminium, and fully load rated and certified.

The optimum design of the ladder offers the best possible strength to weight ratio. The top and bottom chords and verticals have been specifically designed to allow for the maximum mount of useable chord for suspensions and loading purposes.

The LX Ladder is designed for suspension using the top chord and loaded using the bottom chord. The ladder is normally internally wired with either 15A round pin BS546 socket outlet commonly used for stage lighting equipment; it will also accept a 13A BS1363 rectangular pin (UK standard) socket outlet or 16A BS EN 60309 type socket outlet more commonly used for TV and Film lighting equipment.

The LX Ladder comes with a robust steel end box which is designed to be fitted to the end of the ladder providing a neat termination box where the internally wired circuits can connect with fixed wiring or multicore cables via a standard 19 pin Socopex connector or a similar connector of your choice. LX Ladder can be used in winch, hoist and counter weight installations up to fifteen (15) metres long and requires a support attached to the top chord at least every three (3) metres to safely operate within our published load tables (below).

LX Ladder can be supplied without internal cabling and sockets for use as a load rated scenery bar. The top and bottom chords of LX Ladder are 48mm diameter, so it can be use with all your existing standard fixtures. LX Ladder can be provided in a steel construction for installations whereby the increase in self weight would be beneficial and other sizes and lengths of LX Ladder can be produced on application.

 Based on a contemporary design, Hoist UK has managed to lose a lot of the excess weight from the conventional winch design without losing strength or quality.

 

Pilewind Winch:

An ideal solution for schools, smaller venues and retail outlets for banners, small trusses and lighting bars. Perfect for installations where access to a three phase power supply is problematic.The unit has been designed for ease of installation with the minimum of parts and a complete range of header and diverter pulleys specially designed for use with the pilewind winch.

Every Hoist UK pilewind winch will be supplied with a certificate of conformity and will have been load tested in our works prior to dispatch.

Specifications:

· Compact dimensions
· Robust and lightweight construction
· WLL: 125kg / 250kg / 400kg
· Number of rope outputs: 2 to 6 line as standard
· Nominal winching speed: 4 m/min
· Nominal drum capacity: 12 metres
· Design factor 10:1
· Self sustaining worm gearbox with brake unit
· Secondary brake available instead of self sustaining worm gearbox, if required.
· Electric limit switch (4 position as standard, 6 position available)
· Electrical Options: Supplied with either pendant, wall mount control panel, radio controlled or without electrical cubicle
· Power supply: 220V 1ph 50Hz or 415V 3ph 50hz
· Low voltage control circuit as standard
· Finish: Silver
· Tested and certified with owners manual
· Designed and manufactured to BS7905 -1; Specification for the design and manufacture of above stage equipment
· CE Marked
· Designed and built in the UK

Remember: Safety Above All