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04/25/2019

Rigstar Spotlight

By april.snyder

We visited Steven Kendall of Rigstar to find out how he uses his DISTO D810 Touch to layout bridle systems for the rigging industry. Steve teaches a wide range of professional in theatrical and industrial rigging from his shop in Northampton Massachusetts. Steve has been working in the rigging industry since the wild west days of the 1970's. His tours with bands like Heart, Stix, Jethro Tull, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many more, taught him everything you'd ever want to know about lifting gear, people and the occasional piano. Steve used that expertise to configure an Excel spreadsheet that figures out bridle configurations for you. He takes his measurements with his Bluetooth DISTO D810 and shoots those measurements directly into the spreadsheet, in his words, "saving tons and tons of time."