Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1914)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · Chicago, The M. C. Clark Publishing Co. · leaf 311
pper is used which inoperation is usually filled full and sometimes carried 4 yds at aload. The engine is of 15 H. P. capacity and the boiler 54 H. P.The machine is probably strong enough to operate a 3% yd.dipper. It excavated earth 90 ft. from the center of the machineon one side and deposited… … EXCAVATORS 307 During May, 1910, the items of cost of operation were as fol-lows: Engineer, at $90 per month $ 90.00 Engineer, at $95 per month 84.04 Firemen, pumpmen, watchmen and laborers at $1.75 per day 363.00 Coal, at $3 per ton 147.00 Repairs 15.82 Total $699.86 The first cost of this machine…
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