Scoreboard Moving Day
Sunday March 18, 2001
Umpires occasionally complain the scoreboard's center field location is
a confusing distraction--the pitcher's hand appears to come out of the
lights. During night games, it's practically guaranteed they'll order
it shut off. After long last, the school and the Booster Club went
ahead with plans to relocate the board to right field, where it will
provide opponents with woeful news day or night.
The easy way to move a large fixture like this is to hire a crane.
But cranes are terribly expensive and difficult to schedule for a
ballfield adjacent to an already-cramped parking lot. So a few of
our faithful took to it themselves with ropes and pulleys.
If anyone knows someplace in town that will rent or sell a
block and tackle (or even knows what one is!) please let us
know in case we ever have another project like this!
| Sunburned and sore | Got a good workout raising
the bottom-left panel | Didn't zap anybody |
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Dan Allen
Mickey Coffman
Barry King
Don MacFarlane
Chris Spooner |
Scott Pollock
Stuart Pollock
Nick Pursell
Nick Pursell
Pete Pursell
Eric Spooner |
Reid Ellis
Dick Winter |
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Old location preparation |
Opening top wiring panel |
Pulling the plugs |
Plug rack |
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Top right is down |
More prep work |
Electricians |
A look inside |
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Moving |
Unbolting |
Lowering the panel |
More prep |
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More prep |
Unbolting |
Lots of rope |
Going down |
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Down! |
One to go |
Another look inside |
Moving |
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Wires |
Rising numbers |
Holding |
Still holding |
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Our hands ache! |
Success! |
Keep going up |
Holding again |
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| Two to go |
Done! |
Done and lit! |
Photography and web album by Jason Lindquist -- Last modified: 11:00am Tue 20 Mar 2001
