Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1914)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · Chicago, The M. C. Clark Publishing Co. · leaf 119
Fig 1 foreman at $3.00 $3.00 6 pick and bar men at $1.50 , 9.00 12 shovelers at $1.50 18.00 1 horse and driver at $3.50 3.50 y2 trackman at $1.50 75 1% dumpmen at $1.50 2.25 Total labor cost per 10 hours $36.50 The earth, which was extremely hard, was undermined andpried down with picks and bars,… … Fig. 47. cars. The whole gang then started the train, which ran downthe 4% grade to the dump by gravity. After being dumped, it CARS 115 was hauled back by one horse. Thirty-three trains or 198 cars,well loaded, per day, was the output. A car was found to containabout 1 cubic yard of earth place…
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