Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1918)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., [etc., etc.] · leaf 152
147 148 HANDBOOK OF CONSTRUCTION PLANT Hullett-McMyler Derrick. Fig. 71 illustrates this machine,which handles a skip weighing 2,400 lbs,, making, with its fullload of 1% cubic yards of solid rock, 3% tons loaded. It weighs95 tons and costs $15,000. The cost of operation is practicallythe same as… … A steel incline and tipple is often used to conveya steam shovel to the top of a high bank where itSuch a machine is illustrated in Figs. 72, 72A. The steel truss ofthe incline weighs 8,500 lbs., and the total load of boilers, with-out cars, etc., is 100 tons. The engines are llxl8, double…
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