a fairground life (secc2)

We arrived late on Tuesday morning, 1 whole hour after the doors opened. All the other rides were in and set. We pulled onto our plot and quickly discovered our first problem- the overhead gantry would obstruct the tower from rising into position. The floor manager was close at hand and we turned the ride 180 degrees and the moved it over 1m. This was ok for us but meant that the ride behind (speed buzz) had to stop and move off their plot until we had the tower erected. So off they went for an early lunch while we cracked on to get out of their way. We used the generator to erect the ride as it would take too long for the sparky to connect us to the town power. It wasn't long before the overhead extractor fans kicked in and made conversation impossible. One and a half hours later we were finished, just in time for the speed buzz crew to get started. The tower only cleared the roof beams by a couple of inches, good job I kept the ride as low as possible to the floor.Taking advantage of the indoor facilities  we painted the tower, waxed the pay box, cleaned all the panels and did every other small job we could think of. There is certainly a lot of organization in the running of this event, we had a test shut down of the whole carnival with simultaneous PA shut off on the rides, then stopping of the rides, all within 2 minutes. Quite impressive for such a large area.

Hope all is well mechanically tonight. As for the mall-RAINED OFF.

The picts are all from inside hall 4. The queue pens are the longest I've ever used, wonder how many of the expected 140,000+ visitors will ride the dropzone?