Manual fly facilities

Of irreplaceable practicality, the Manual fly facilities are used for modest loads to be lifted with ease and speed, such as wings, borders, backdrops, screens and light scenes.
Heavier loads can be handled by arranging the Manual fly facilities in the form of the Gun tackle fly facility, which however limits their practicality and speed of movement.
They are used both in stages with Fixed pulleys systems and in those equipped with Flyloft with mobile blocks or with Fixed blocks for flyloft, where for their simplicity they remain in use even alongside sophisticated motorized systems.
The lifting of the load takes place by means of textile ropes which are fixed to the ground to a Mantegno or to a Horn cleat with a specific knot.
At the other end the ropes are usually tied with a clove hitch knot to a lifting point or to a batten.
For light loads and for bars up to 4 m in length, the Cantinelle are used, for higher lengths and loads the Top battens are used.

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