How to Calculate Your Counterweight: Stop Guessing and Start Rigging Safely
If you’ve been in the live events industry for more than a minute, you’ve heard it: “Just throw a couple more sandbags on the back of that truss, it’s not going anywhere.” It’s the kind of sentence that makes safety officers twitch and insurance companies reach for the "cancel" button. For years, calculating ballast for...
Announcing the Steel Ballast Plate: The New Standard for Rigging and LED Stability
If you’ve been in the live events industry for more than five minutes, you know the drill. You’re setting up a massive LED wall or a ground-supported truss, and the conversation inevitably turns to stability. For decades, the "solution" has...
Sandbags vs. Real Ballast: A Gallery of Epic Staging Fails
Let’s be honest: we’ve all been there. You’re at a high-stakes corporate gig or a massive festival load-in, and the truss structure for that massive LED wall looks... a little light. You look around, and instead of a clean, engineered...
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If you’ve been in the live events industry for more than a minute, you’ve heard it: “Just throw a couple more sandbags on the back of that truss, it’s not going anywhere.” It’s the kind of sentence that makes safety...
How to Calculate Your Counterweight: StopGuessing and Start Rigging Safely
The New Standard: ANSI E1.50-1-2025 Before we talk about weights, we need to talk about the rules. The ANSI E1.50-1-2025 standard (Requirements for the Structural Support of Temporary LED, Video and Display Systems) is the benchmark we should all be aiming for. This standard isn’t just a suggestion; it’s a roadmap for keeping people safe […]
Stop Guessing Your Counterweight: A Practical Guide to Safe Rigging
If you’ve been in the live events industry for more than a minute, you’ve heard it: “Just throw a couple more sandbags on the back of that truss, it’s not going anywhere.” It’s the kind of sentence that makes safety officers twitch and insurance companies reach for the “cancel” button. For years, calculating ballast for […]
Master Counterweight Calculations: Rig Smarter, Safer, and More Precisely
If you’ve been in the live events industry for more than a minute, you’ve heard it: “Just throw a couple more sandbags on the back of that truss, it’s not going anywhere.” It’s the kind of sentence that makes safety officers twitch and insurance companies reach for the “cancel” button. For years, calculating ballast for […]