16.10.2010

Filming the Ryder Cup

In case you were unaware this year’s Ryder cup was held in Wales, which by the way lived up to its reputation for rain.
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Ryder cup 2010

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Heavy rain meant lots of mud

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The opening ceremony

A team from truck mounted rental specialist AA Access supplied all of the truck mounted lifts on site, which included modals from Wumag, Ruthmann and Bronto with the largest being the 103 metre Wumag re-rented from Riwal.
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We are not quite sure what the little Ruthmann is doing to the big Wumag but...

Four of the units were fitted with special round camera cages, commissioned and delivered in 2005 they have proved to be highly popular for golfing events as they allow the camera to move silently and quickly from one side of the platform to the other without rotating a normal rectangular cage or repositioning the boom.
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One of the round cages

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A view of one of the four round cages on site from the rear

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Another view of the round cage

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A camera man ready to go in one of the round baskets

The special camera cage machines were deployed strategically to cover three or four holes each which allowed the director to quickly aim them to cover where the action was happening. The rest of the machines with normal platforms were used either as camera platforms or aerial links to the remote RF cameras.
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Riwal's Wumag 103 metre WT1000 provided a birds eye view

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Andy Ainsworth of AA Access said: “As this event is a world live sporting event it was crucial that our machines and operators were up to the task of delivering a reliable and professional service throughout. We achieved this without a single hiccough during the event, even though we were faced with appalling weather conditions, including high wind and torrential rain, and some difficult positions to set the machines.”

AA Access had a team of nine on site throughout the event (no shortage of volunteers I imagine) with a combined experience of 211 years.
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Team AA Access, (L-R) Roel Versteden, Andy Ainsworth, Alf Humphries, Nick Brock, Gary Bones, Mally Darbyshire, Tony Whitehead and Mark Saint - missing is Steve Lloyd

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Steve Lloyd (Lloydy) got the short straw and was located at a remote site looking after a machine with radio camera equipment

Given the number of golfing enthusiasts in the crane and access world we thought we would include all of the photographs that we have been sent. And for those of you who didn’t know Europe won 14.5 points to 13.5.
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Leaving the site

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A brighter spell

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Taking a breather

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Then the fog rolled in ...

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An AA Access machine with round cage at the Ryder cup

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