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Post by Alex Scott on Apr 1, 2019 10:25:04 GMT -5
In Hannigan's Cove Randy designs a raft to take the backhoe to Windmill Island. Wes mentions his calculations of the required bouyancy of the raft, but there's another important factor: stability! This guy didn't consider it.
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Post by Allen on Apr 11, 2019 20:52:55 GMT -5
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Post by Not Wes Either on May 24, 2019 10:54:51 GMT -5
In Hannigan's Cove Randy designs a raft to take the backhoe to Windmill Island. Wes mentions his calculations of the required bouyancy of the raft, but there's another important factor: stability! This guy didn't consider it.
So what, this is fiction! Wes was too good a writer to clog up a story with unnecessary detail; well most of the time☺. |
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Post by John Robert Mead on May 26, 2019 18:56:58 GMT -5
Randy did take stability into account, as I recollect it; that led to his adding a couple of additional rows of cans on all sides beyond what was required just to carry things across, to keep it from tipping over when all the weight shifted to one end.
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Post by Bonno Bloksma on Aug 12, 2019 5:45:24 GMT -5
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Post by John Robert Mead on Aug 23, 2019 21:00:21 GMT -5
Hmm.
While embarrassing, I'll admit to envisioning something more along the lines of one side becoming completely submerged, not just having the load topple off when the raft dips a bit.
The Netherlands raft, the load had a very high center of gravity, as well as being off-sides.
With Randy's Raft, the load would have a much lower center of gravity, so the tipping would need to be much more extreme before there would be any danger of it sliding off.
Although, as I recollect it, the concern was in regard to getting onto and off of the raft, in which case it would be forcing the bow or stern too far down in relation to the landing zone.
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