This topic is not a question for students. The question has too much information missing. A book or teacher should provide all the information necessary to solve the problem.
I get questions like this all the time. I rarely get questions where all the necessary information is provided. I usually must ask for more information.
I would hope that a book or instructor would supply all the information necessary for students to solve the problem.
What if the load force is like compressing a spring? At contact the spring exerts zero force and when the spring is compressed it exerts 10 tons of force? Now what? I bet few could solve.
This is why I use calculus and differential equations.