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A team of riggers design and install the lifting or rolling equipment needed to raise, roll, slide or lift objects such as heavy machinery, structural components, building materials, or large-scale fixtures with a crane, hoist or block and tackle. Rigging comes from rig, to set up or prepare.
This was a rail-mounted steam crane, with a fixed horizontal jib carrying a movable trolley or 'crab'. The crane, including the steam plant, could slew on a central king post bearing. This represented all the main features of the fully developed block-setting crane, although at a small scale as yet.
An ideal block and tackle with a moving block supported by n rope sections has the mechanical advantage (MA), = =, where F A is the hauling (or input) force and F B is the load. Consider the set of pulleys that form the moving block and the parts of the rope that support this block.
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