Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1918)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., [etc., etc.] · leaf 126
Lbs. 700900 Price $42.0045.00 For hoppers 10 inches deep add $9.50 For tail gate add 2.00 For automatic end gate add 8.50 For 4-inch tires add 5.50 For steel bottom add 5.00 Ten new railroad, one-horse dump carts, some with steel andsome with wooden bottorhs, cost $50 each. Repairs cost $1.75… … Fig. 54. Mr. D. J. Hauer says that average dump carts, without a tail-board, hold about 0.6 cu. yds. of earth, or 0.35 cu. yds. of rock,place measure. From Morriss data, quoted by Mr. H. P. Gillette in EarthWork and Its Cost, the average speed of a cart is 200 feet perminute and the average load %…
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