What is this structure called?

[ddkm]

Hi all, is there a "professional" term for the following structure:

It is used as a support to hold certain loads (parts of heavy equipment etc) after they have been dismantled. It's just a temporary support while waiting for the maintenance work to be carried out. The red part is the main rod where the load will sit, while the black lines are the 4 legs that spread the load.

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[corus]

Not sure what this has to do with heat transfer but to give it a name, I'd just your imagination. Commonly it might be referred to as a support frame, but as it has four legs I'd call it a horse back.

corus

 

[ddkm]

corus, not sure if you were joking, but I was also thinking along the same lines. To be precise, "Support Horse".

But then, wasn't sure how ridiculous it would sound. That's why I'm looking at what others would say, or if there would already be an "official" name for it.

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[MintJulep]

Or simply a "horse". Or a tressel. Or a stand.

 

[MikeHalloran]

It's unequivocally a sawhorse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawhorse

It's also correct to call it a 'trestle', but that invites confusion with trestle bridges

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trestle

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[ivymike]

yep, that's a pretty good e-crayola of a sawhorse.

 

[Latexman]

It's missing the cross member, but it's an "A-frame" support.

Good luck,
Latexman

 

[ddkm]

But guys, it's not for sawing!

So, now I'm undecided between:
- Horse
- Sawhorse
- Trestle (sounds professional)
- A frame Support



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[MintJulep]

Sawhorses are frequently used for things other than sawing.

However, I would say that a true sawhorse has an implicit functional requirement; the horizontal member must be a material that won't damage a saw blade when you forget and try to saw through it.

 

[MikeHalloran]

Then go with 'trestle'.

Females will recognize it right away, because that's the word they use for sawhorses when they are positioned under a door that's used as a table.

Males will engage you in the same argument we've got here.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[ivymike]

so how about reposting in the engineering language/grammar forum for extended pleasure?

 

[ddkm]

Wow, there's actually a forum section on Engineering Language? Cool!

Guess I should have used that in the first place, huh? My bad!

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[ivymike]

forum1010 if that helps

 

[25362]

A horizontal beam or bar held up by two pairs of splayed (divergent) legs used as a support: definitely a trestle or tressel.

Horse and sawhorse are also applicable, if just because in Spanish it is called "caballete".

 

[BigInch]

Spanish can vary considerably from country to country and sometimes within the same country, so I can't be sure its not, but in some dilects a caballete is a table supported by traditional "H" frames. Here we would call the above structure,

and a "caballete" would be like this,

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[25362]

BigInch, how come you speak Spanish ?

 

[cammax]

Gantry crane or gantry support

http://www.lkgoodwin.com/more_info/t_series_gantry_cranes/t_series_gantry_cranes.shtml

 

[BigInch]

I worked on the Texas-Mexico border, then went to Colombia in 1986, the mideast, then Venezuela in 1996, then back to the mideast, then Spain for a year, then after 2 years in Turkey, I decided Spain had the best weather in Europe and just also happens to be in the middle of almost all the world's oil and gas fields, which is a good thing, since the only kind we make here comes from olives.

Saludos

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[25362]

BigInch

Como ingeniero argentino que tambi[é]n d[í] mis vueltas por el mundo, qued[é] muy impresionado por su experiencia y su sabidur[í]a.

 

[BigInch]

Gracias. He pensado lo mismo. Entonces creo q's verdad q' el dibujo pue'ser un caballete, cierto? O por lo menos, como hablan ustedes, "cabazhate" Dime como se llama un caballete del arte alli? Tengo unos amigos q' viven en B.A. Mire, enviarme v direccion. Lo mio te puedes encontrar en mi espacio de red. Venga.

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