Question: A farmer has to lift up a boulder 12 inches in the air in order to put it in his wagon. The boulder weighs 2000

A farmer has to lift up a boulder 12 inches in the air in order to put it in his wagon. The boulder weighs 2000 lbf. The farmer has the following tools available: a fixed pulley and a moveable pulley with a rope; an inclined plane with an inclined length of 8 feet and a height of 12 inches; and a lever that is  10 feet long. The farmer has a maximum strength to push or pull of 100 lbf.

 

Design a system using the tools the farmer has available to move or lift the boulder.  Assume there is no friction and that mechanical advantage is ideal.

 

Draw a  detailed sketch of the system design, label all mechanisms and simple machines  utilized in the system, and dimension the sketch:

Describe in detail the system and how it will  operate:

Calculate the mechanical advantage of the individual mechanisms in the system and the total  mechanical advantage of the system:

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