Crank up stands

I have a set of ST-132 Global truss stands. The use the weight of the lights on the truss to push the stands back to the home postion when you reverse crank. When you crank them up, you lock each section as it goes up, then when you bring them down you unlock each section as they come back down. I would advise not to crack them up without any weight on them (unless you like to climb

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When looking to buy crank ups, make sure you but enough weight on them to get them to lower. If you have 2 750 lb rated stands and only a 100 lbs between them, they won't come down. So look at how much weight you are putting on compared to what the stands are rated for before buying.

I do this one show every year in which we need to use Genie Lifts which are rated for I think 750 lbs a piece do to how high we need to go. Well, do to the length we need three and only have about 200 lbs total on the whole truss. They don't want to come down at all, so we have to use creative means to lower them. I would rather not discuss on a public forum how we do it since someone can be seriously injured or worse, killed, when dealing with rigging.