. Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency. 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 measure. This gives a laborcost of about cents per cubic yard. About $ per daywas spent on repairs to the equipment. On another job two trains of ten cars each were used. Thegang was as follows: 1 foreman @ $ $ 20 loaders (g)
. Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency. 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 measure. This gives a laborcost of about cents per cubic yard. About $ per daywas spent on repairs to the equipment. On another job two trains of ten cars each were used. Thegang was as follows: 1 foreman @ $ $ 20 loaders (g) 1 dump foreman @ 3 dump men @ 2 brakemen (a) 1 trackman @ 2 pickmen @ 1 waterboy & 2 extra men @ 1 hauling ream and driver @ 1 plow team and driver @ Total ; $ The earth was of hardpan and sand and the cut ranged from0 to 15 feet. The fill was about 9 feet in height. The averagehaul was 800 feet. Thirteen hundred feet of track was laid at. The Oliver 4-Yard Car. a cost of $75. The average daily output was 330 cars, or yards,making a labor cost of about 19 cents per yard. Cars similar to these were loaded by a 30-ton traction shovelfor 10 cents (contract) per yard, and dumped and hauled backby horses for 7 cents per yard, average length of haul 1,500 feet. 116 HANDBOOK OF CONSTRUCTION PLANT The repairs on cars were very high, amounting to about 4 centsper yard, but had stronger cars of the same type been used, therepairs would have been nominal.
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