File puptcrit/puptcrit.0802, message 427


From: "Puppet People" <puppetpeople-AT-nycap.rr.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:41:19 -0500
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Preparing a production


After 14 years...no problems!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Hudert" <heyhoot-AT-mindspring.com>
To: <puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Preparing a production


> 
> On Feb 13, 2008, at 11:29 AM, Puppet People wrote:
> 
>>  Trunks with wheels or even garbage cans with wheels are great for 
>> storing puppets: if possible try to wrap your scenery
>> and props, laundry bags work great.
> 
> Yikes! Garbage cans with wheels? Mark, perhaps you have not had a 
> problem with this (yet), but there are many horror stories out there of 
> people who had puppets/material/whatever stored in garbage bags which 
> ended accidentally up going the way of garbage. Sometimes 
> irretrievably. I would encourage everyone to avoid using garbage bags 
> or garbage cans for anything but what they were meant for: garbage. 
> (Wait for apparent contradiction below.)
> 
> I, personally, would shy away from trunks with wheels, preferring the 
> ones without wheels instead - be they the footlocker kind (getting 
> cheesier in construction every year it seems) or the Rubbermaid type - 
> and a dolly or hand truck. IMHO, and experience, the wheelless ones 
> stack better and last longer than the wheeled type. There is also 
> slightly more room inside as the wheels do intrude slightly on the 
> interior space. I do, on a few rare occasions, use some wheeled trunks, 
> but that is typically for shows that are pretty small and will only 
> take one or maybe two trunks including tech equipment. Wheeled stuff 
> tends to slide around more than desired in the back of my van. My hand 
> truck which converts into a dolly has gotten a lot of mileage and 
> transports in the van on top of trunks, etc., with its wheels up so 
> doesn't roll around  back there much.
> 
> Mark, if the wheeled garbage cans work for you, great. I sincerely hope 
> you never have a problem (I wouldn't wish that on anybody!). I can see 
> where some larger puppets would fit and transport well in rolling cans. 
> I suspect the cans are well marked that they are Puppet People Property 
> (and not trash). If it were me, I'd see that they began to look like 
> transport bins rather than trash bins, but maybe that's just me.
> 
> Christopher
> 
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