Barge to carry a single pick-up truck

Loading and unloading a boat that size is by zoom-boom, or telehandler, or by forklift that drives on and off. Onsite storage is a given. The NA provides a load plan as a professional service.

No intent to plane this barge loaded. That would be unsafe.

 

Specmar has designs for various aluminum landing craft that would fit your SOR
Their fees include using their CAD cut files for one boat. As aluminum and plywood (normally) make developable shapes, perhaps modifying the aluminum cut files to produce
a plywood "kit" is feasible. Certainly, skin thickness, attachment/joint fastening methods, stringer + bulkhead thicknesses will not be the same, it might be a start.

 

I found a picture to liven things up here. They got you beat John. This one uses the truck for propulsion. Look Mom! No wheels. Truckaran?

 

Reduce reuse recycle!

 

So you reckon he's got a prop down yonder on the hinder end of his driveshaft?

 

Sure makes you wonder. It's got prop wash like it's moving a decent wheel.

 

Is that a propeller shaft visible in the aft starboard wheel arch?
I presume that the engine would be a direct shaft drive, with the engine still under the bonnet / hood, rather than a vee drive with the engine underneath the bloke sitting on the 'aft deck' ?

 

Through the wheel well I see frame and exhaust pipe. If they're using the drive train, hopefully they added a thrust bearing.

 

Well, the main drive shaft gets disconnected from the rear end and dropped into some bearing I’d say.

 

Is that Ford Ranger? Probably can't do more than 70hp sustained.

 

First few levels of a float platform, to take part of a septic system for a floating restaurant. This is 8'x16', or 244cm x 488cm. It will be 24" or 61cm deep when finished, and will bear around 4 tons of plant.
Note that the structural members are laid log-cabin style so it alternates full length planks on each level. It's only 20% built, and already it's extremely stiff.
I'd consider this a test for barge construction but I really don't know how to design/calculate a deck that can take a large rolling load, like the tire of a heavy truck.

 

So I have a question for the structural engineers.

Given a tire load of 4.5 tons, and a deck of douglas fir 3.5", 9cm thick, how far apart can the deck beams be, before the deck breaks under load? Given a contact patch of 10" 25cm square.