This is a nice diagram and the article it came from. Essential the boom and mast are skookum lever arms that direct the load downwards. The barge has a ballast tank in the back that holds water and keeps it from overturning.
What I don’t know is how the load is affixed. There aren’t slings underneath it.
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u/Prof_PlunderPlants Mar 12 '22
This is a nice diagram and the article it came from. Essential the boom and mast are skookum lever arms that direct the load downwards. The barge has a ballast tank in the back that holds water and keeps it from overturning.
What I don’t know is how the load is affixed. There aren’t slings underneath it.
Since this is r/civilengineering here are some statics problems…