Gilles Corbeil

Same Same ...next week . Just finished Pacific Rim with the Epic and I'll probably use the C300 next . A friend has the resources to make a bunch

......Gilles

I tried the pro arm with black canisters and it drops like a lead zeppelin just like the modified 3a arm. I also like a compact post and to do that , one needs heavy batteries to balance.

The dolly is a Fisher 10 .I also mount a racing seat with a mitchell base onto the dolly. I did a few shots on "The Thing" that way. with the Klassen garfield rig (check his web site) I have rigged 2 inch pipe off the side of the chair,and rig two arms off of it . The trick with a seat is to get a foot rest organized using pipe. I also have a small aluminum cart that I used on 2nd unit "Hulk" that also uses the seat

Low mode scraping the ground at full gallop is very easy . Unfortunately i'm still on the vest with two Alexas more often than not. On the vest, I have to slide the gimble all the way up the post ,and slide it back before docking (awkward) I have had weight on the MK-V before .the gimble can take it. !80mm anamorphic with 1000 mag. on "The Thing" but at wide open it's harder for the focus puller

What an awesome set-up, well done thinking outside the box to come up with a heavy duty solution on the arm.

Just wondering though, how does the gimbal hold up with so much weight, do you know what the maximum load capacity is on it before the yoke mushrooms and dies a death??

Also I am really curious as to what the double-arm combo is attached to, looks like a cart possibly or a dolly but it's hard to tell from the picture, hopefully with the advent of the epics and the new Alexa M such insanely heavy set-ups will be a thing of the past, thankfully I haven't had the displeasure of 100lbs bearing down on my spine and hope I never have to lol.

Excuse all the questions and thanks in advance if you find the time to answer them, such a curious set-up and I have never seen anyone come up with anything like that before, kudos to you sir.

First off , I have used the freestyle rig just like the rig that larry was carrying on the picture in the other thread. I haven't weighed it but it's 100lbs ish .

I'm not going to bother modifying my vest . The dozen or so shots on the vest isn't worth it. When i first put the beast on my 72 lb capacity 3a arm

the tall post bent and I got Walter Klassen to get me a solid case hardened 18in post . It bends but much less. The post became the focus of attaching two arms

on it and then getting a second pipe mounted garfield. The lower arm is set stiffer. The Klassen garfield is fully adjustable and I compressed the MK-V rig

by adding two hydron bats. I also have a racing seat that has pipe mounts and it works really well. Hopefully no one has to use the Alexa 3D rig again.

This rig is a response to two alexas on my MK-V

<_< Some years ago, I tryied whit skys...and the result was bad..bad..and painful.... The gravity center of your body changes...and you get fall.... :angry:

I did Ice Princess for disney and we used a small metal platform 3'x3' that i stood on with my old 3a and was pushed by two strong skaters. We also built an electric crane base with studded tires it held a gf-6 crane with a stabilized head crane op, driver and myself. Grips Chris Dean and John Billings built the rigs in toronto