Handbook of mechanical and electrical cost data, giving shipping weights, capacities, outputs, and net prices of machines and apparatus, and detailed costs of installation, maintenance, depreciation and operation, together with many principles and data relating to engineering economics (1918)
Gillette, Halbert Powers, 1869-, Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928, joint author · New York, McGraw-Hill · leaf 1420
per min. hoistednearly 5 ft. and swung well inside the car. Sixty 800-lb. bbls. of plumbago were moved 300 ft. in 1 hr., 1helper only being required. One hundred and fifty 300-lb. boxesof rubber were conveyed 75 ft. and loaded into a box car in 50mins., 3 boxes being slung together and a round trip… … Fig. 46. Details of a specially designed travelling crane forplacing 48-in. gas main on a narrow pile trestle over a swamp. loaded onto trailers from a scattering pile at the rate of 24 anhr., being hoisted 2 ft. and carried about 20 ft. in the operation.Two 1,200-lb. water meters were lifted from…
