Day 117- Map Room framing cont. : the crush wall

This is definitely one project we're kind of flying by the seat of our pants on as it were. If you think about it a lot of the build can be like that. Some things have been done before and we kind of modify that. This particular feature I haven't seen yet in a haunt. Doesn't mean it hasn't been tried. Maybe someone knows about one. Anyway here it goes: you can see the 2x4 blocks bolted onto the brackets and in the one image, a second bracket is bolted in turn onto the block to convert the construct to the horizontal so we can actually attach a wall made of 2x2's to it!The top of the wall is drawn in there with 2 black lines so you can see how it will lay out. Now I bolted the 2x4 block in such a way as to leave a space below the I-beam so it can slide. I added a couple extra washers in between the block and the bracket to decrease the friction between the bracket and the I-beam. It does slide pretty easily so far. We will have to see what the weight of the wall does to this. It's possible it could tilt the block against the underside of the beam in such a way as to make the sliding difficult. It doesn't have to be smooth- even a jerky motion would be fine- might actually be better! Just as long as I can push it along from behind.
Btw I'm sure by now you've noticed the background soundtrack to Raiders of the Lost Ark. We are going to play a portion of this as people are entering the Map Room. It will be quite a show!