Talk:Crane (machine)

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Cancun in topic Nautical cargo handling gear

Fabrication of a Crane edit

I work as a "Project Management" officer & I would like more about fabrication of cranes, WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and so on.

Crane Design edit

I am interested in detailed engineering design of plate box girder used as a crane girder.

=Rajendra Sawant, email : rajsawant@mtnl.net.in

Please include the statics involved in the cranes design.

Holding area edit

This is a characteristic of a crane. what does exactly mean?

Diagram of a modern mobile crane with outriggers. edit

The rest of the caption is "The latticed boom is fitted with a gib" - but the annotated diagram uses "jib". Why the inconsistency? A quick scan of the text of the article shows that "jib" is used consistently. Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 08:22, 15 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

See Talk:Gib Andy Dingley (talk) 09:08, 15 August 2017 (UTC)Reply

Nautical cargo handling gear edit

What is missing here, and as far as I can tell in all other articles, is a description of shipboard cranes. Mainly I'm thinking of loading booms and other cargo handling gear attached to a mast, as was standard on general freight ships before containerization came in the 1960s, as shown in this great old film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PJ4zTvNwwQ Cancun (talk) 10:28, 6 September 2020 (UTC)Reply