The goals of this presentation are to: teach the correct rig-up procedures for 60 and 85ft

booms, show the consequences of incorrect King post installation and familiarize
participants with correct crane hand signals.
The presentation is divided into five sections. The first describes the hanging procedure
as specified by the FOH. Note this presentation only highlights the major aspects from
the FOH and is not fully comprehensive. The second section highlights the dynamic
behavior of the booms in both correct and incorrect King post installation, note this is
more related to incorrect positioning of the base plate rather than incorrect King post
installation. The third section focuses on Safety aspects of boom hanging. The forth
section shows crane hand signals. The fifth section stipulates the procedure for using the
rig-up demonstrator and has photos of each step so the ideas previously discussed can be
shown pictorially.
SECTION 1 BOOM HANGING PROCEDURE AS SPECIFIED BY THE FOH
The online PEPTEC training can be used to supplement this section.
Slide 1 Title
Slide 2 Presentation Aims
Slide 3 Title
Slide 4 First step hanging fish plate and guy lines
Slide 5 Attaching boom to base plate. Presenter should stress importance of installing the
base plate directly under fish plate to avoid incorrect hanging geometries. Note rigging up
the boom on the deck etc has been left out of this presentation please refer to FOH for
this information.
Slide 6 Guy line rigging procedure. Note far lifting lugs are done first with the boom in
horizontal position. The boom is picked up by the crane to 30 and the near lifting lugs
attached. Note a 60ft boom only has one set of lifting lugs. These are attached when the
boom is at 30.
Slide 7 Photo.
Slide 8 Release weight on crane to ensure boom is 3-5 above the horizontal plane to
ensure oil does not drip into the sea when burner is not in operation.
Slide 9 Attaching horizontal guy-lines. Use crane to pull the boom to one side 5-10
attach horizontal guy lines (furthest one first for 85ft booms). Note it is best to use a
personnel basket attached to crane as the guy lines are very heavy.

Slide 10, 11, 12 Guy-line lengths and forces. These three slides are taken directly from
the FOH and are used to calculate the force experienced by the guy-lines and the
minimum lengths. The FOH has other tables showing guy-line thickness required etc.
Slides 10 and 11 are diagrams of a boom experiencing a shear force (perpendicular). The
arrows and FX describe the direction of the forces resulting in the guy-lines. Also, Note
the L and W stand for Lee and Windward (down wind and up wind respectfully)
Section 2 Effects Of Incorrect King post Installation
Slide 13 Title.
Slide 13, 14, 15 These slides physically show what happens when a boom is in an
incorrect and correct installation. The first triangle represents the boom in a normal
position. The second (on the slide) shows the movement of the boom (up in the case of
having the King post installation too far forward and down in the case of having the King
post installation too far back) when a wind force is applied causing the boom to swing
back in towards the rig. Also note the force in the guy line increases when the King post
attachment is too far back and decreases when too far forward. Note that if the force
decreases in the guy-line more force is applied to the boom, this could cause failure.
Conversely if more force is applied to the guy-line it could fail. This is why correct King
post installation is required.
Section 3 Boom Hanging Safety
Slide 17 Title
Slide 18 Boom Hanging Safety. Permit to work, a working over water / overboard permit
is required before doing any work on a boom, note this may be refused due to weather
conditions (high wind), a watch person in radio contact with the stand-by boat is
mandatory whenever anyone is on the boom.
Slide 19 Attaching your safety harness to the boom is at your own discression. As in the
event of the boom falling it may not be possible to unlatch yourself in time.
Slide 20 Turn buckles are used to alter the length of the guy-lines. The buckles are into
the guy-line, the body has a left hand thread at one end and a right hand thread at the
other, by rotating the body the eyelets are pulled together or pushed apart. With closed
body turn buckles it is not possible to see the threads. Hence it is possible to lengthen the
guy-line and only have one thread attached, an increased load on the boom (i.e. a person)
could cause the thread to fail, and the boom to fall. Therefore only use open bodied turn
buckles.
Slide 21 Rigging. A Bull-Dog clamp is made up of a U bolt and a Saddle When
clamping two braided cables together there is a Live and a Dead end. The live end is
the end of the cable in tension. The saddle, as seen in the diagram, has groves in it that
complement the braiding (twists) in the cable. When the bolts are tightened, the cable

molds to the saddle. Conversely, the U bolt side of the Clamp squashes the cable. This
squashing damages the cable and causes a weak point. If this weak point occurred on the
cable in tension (Live) it would reduce the working load of the cable and be more likely
to fail. Therefore, the saddle must always go on the live end. Hence the saying Never
saddle a dead horse. Note as the cable molds to the saddle it is important to use clamps
of the correct size.
SECTION 4 LIFTING AND SLINGING STANDARD HAND SIGNALS
Slide2 22-31 Crane signals. Note these are taken from In Touch, and undoubtedly
different locations use different signals. The point here is to establish the crane signals
before lifting operations commence. It is also mportant to point out that if in radio
communication with crane operator, left and right directions are always the crane
operators left and right, i.e. if you are standing facing the crane your left is the crane
operators right!.
SECTION 5 BOOM RIG UP DEMONSTRATION
Slide s33,44 This section describes how to use the boom rig up demonstrator. I strongly
suggest that if you give this presentation and do the following demonstration that you
perform the demonstration first yourself.
Slide 34 These slides are a step by step guide to the boom rig up demonstrator. Some
important points, when picking the boom up to 30 all the weight of the boom is taken by
the two forward slings, this can be seen by a slackening of the single aft sling. Note this is
also the reason why there are two forward slings and only a single aft sling, ie the
forward slings have to support the entire weight of the boom when picking up to 30.