This is topic Starfleet Ground Support Equipment - Crane in forum Designs, Artwork, & Creativity at Flare Sci-Fi Forums.


To visit this topic, use this URL:
https://flare.solareclipse.net/ultimatebb.php/topic/7/1403.html

---

Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
 
I did this drawing for another forum, but I thought I'd show it here, too. It's a crane used by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers for just about anything you'd need a crane for. Loading/unloading cargo, building new colonies and bases on unforgiving planets, etc. The grapple on the end of the boom is similar to the technology in the NX-01's grapple. And yes, it has wheels. (Heresy!) I figure that in these kinds of applications where you need to pick up and place things precisely, you don't want to rely on a power system to keep yourself in the air, not to mention having to deal with the wind or whatever else may affect you.


B.J.
 

---

Posted by David Sands (Member # 132) on :
 
Maybe you could have the hoverwheels from Back to the Future?

One thing that you might want to think about is whether it should be wider. I remember an email that was going around years ago tracing the lineage of our roads' width to that of two horses' behinds. It's entirely possible that they would have widened vehicles in the future. Especially for cranes that rely on a wheelbase so much. It looks a tad narrow to me. Just the $0.02 I have to offer.
 

---

Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
 
Yeah, the width was the one nit someone else had, too. The width right now is entirely based on the circular carousel for the crane. I may update it sometime to see if it looks any better widened. However, the crane's operations do not rely on the width between the wheels because of the stabilizing outriggers.

B.J.
 

---

Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
 
i'd think it's be a hovercar of some sort and that the "crane" would be alarge tractor-beam emitter.
Mabye the vehicle attaches a few anti-graviton devices (as seen on TNG) and just controls the lifted material remotely.
No wide body or giant wheels required.

Think of a largeish, flat-bottomed shuttle with a turretted beam emitter and a flatbed in the back for transporting raw mateials or a small industrial replicator for spot repairs.
 

---

Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
 
The competition I designed this for said "come up with a wheeled Starfleet vehicle", so that was an obvious design constraint. I certainly didn't want to do a dune buggy!

As for the grapple, there's no reason why there can't be different things mounted on the end of that boom for different reasons, including a small tractor beam emitter.

B.J.
 

---

Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
 
It's cool. I was thinking for a second that the Workbee could be the cab for the crane part.

Mark
 

---

Posted by Pensive's Left testes for mayor... (Member # 1203) on :
 

quote:

---

Originally posted by Mark Nguyen:
It's cool. I was thinking for a second that the Workbee could be the cab for the crane part.

Mark

---