Canadian foundryman (1921) . e factory site andnever ends. When the construction of the new millis undertaken, the purchase of a locomo-tive crane usually becomes the first con-sideration, and the various ways in whichthe crane makes itself useful enables itto pay for itself during the constructionperiod. Equipped with a grab bucket, itbegins to excavate; it drives piles; withone sweep of its majestic arm, it deliversthe concrete from the mixers to theforms—often covering a delivery radiusof 15,000 square feet. In this instancealone it performs the work of fifteen menworking with barrows. With
Canadian foundryman (1921) . e factory site andnever ends. When the construction of the new millis undertaken, the purchase of a locomo-tive crane usually becomes the first con-sideration, and the various ways in whichthe crane makes itself useful enables itto pay for itself during the constructionperiod. Equipped with a grab bucket, itbegins to excavate; it drives piles; withone sweep of its majestic arm, it deliversthe concrete from the mixers to theforms—often covering a delivery radiusof 15,000 square feet. In this instancealone it performs the work of fifteen menworking with barrows. With the foundation work completedfor the open hearth furnace, the giganticgas mains, and the coke ovens, the cranebecomes an indispensable adjunct unload-ing and placing heavy, bulky girders andstructural steel—a task which it per-forms with ease and accuracy. The all-around usefulness of an industrial craneis never shown to better advantage thanstanding amid these monuments of mod-ern industry as they rise, story by HANDLING SAND BY MEANS OF GRAB BUCKET. March, 1921 CANADIAN FOUNDRYMAN 19 When the construction work is over,the tracks which the crane has laid be-come the scene of its daily activities. Itswork now consists of handling carloadafter carload of incoming raw have pictured an industrial cranehandling pigs with the aid of a can do the work of thirty men in afraction of the time—unloading cars andplacing the material at any point withina radius of fifty-feet. In replacing men on jobs of this char-acter, cranes have often solved a vexinglabor problem. Workmen find it badenough to be forced to handle frozen pigand scrap iron in winter, but when thesummer sun comes beating down, themen become inefficient and of them leave. When the crane is not unloading rawmaterial, or loading cars with finishedwork, a grab bucket may be attached forhandling fuel, ashes, sand, etc. Economical handling of coal in theaverage plant becomes
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