Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1914)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · Chicago, The M. C. Clark Publishing Co. · leaf 113
s $2.20 per cord, and the cost of transporting bythe tramway, as above given, was 60 cts. per cord (not includinginterest on the plant). During the previous year the cost ofcutting and teaming wood had been $12 per cord. The totalsaving to the company, after deducting cost of tramway, was$33,500… … Fig. 43. 10-Ton Cableway; 800-ft. span with 50-ft. Four-PostTowers. Leven, Scotland. The ground between the loch and the dam,which is at an elevation of 1,075 ft. above the loch level, is verysteep, rendering transportation by any method other than a cable-way almost impossible. The mean gradient…
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