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by grecy 613 days ago
The booster landed on "pins" that are structural load points and designed to support it's weight.

Here is a brilliant profile shot looking down one of the "arms" after the catch today, you can clearly see it resting on the "pins", not the grid fins.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F7...

They also use those "pins" to raise/lower it with a crane when they need to during construction and during transport to the launch tower. It's the primary mode of lifting the thing