Storage

The body is all in one piece. The legs are broken down into sections, and stored in the body.

Techniques

Note that both sides of each mating set are marked.

Setup

Each leg assembly takes little time: fit the three pieces of PVC together; pin the joints; cover with foam cylinder; pull cloth covering into place.

The base is positioned on the roof, and the body placed on top.

The base sits firmly on the roof. For added protection against sliding down the roof, a rope goes up, over the ridgeline, and fastens to a Heavy Object on the back side.

Pads like these protect the roof against abrasion from the safety rope.

The legs are assembled on the ground, then handed up to the worker on the roof.

Each leg is pressed into place and pinned.

The "foot" ends of most of the legs touch the roof. The roof is protected by foot pads.

The PVC is placed in position, over a screw protruding up from the pad. A small bungee holds the leg down on the pad. Foam and cloth are pulled down to cover the pipe.

Here's the electronics package that runs the spider, spitter, and audio.

We promise we'll be neater next year.

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