. Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency. .\y2 cu. yds. 2 cu. yds. 3 cu. yds. .5 cu. yds. 10 cu. yds. 4,100 4,600 8,500 9,500 11,500 20,000 30,000 556 7 8 9 12 0840060 6 4 6 108 0 8 6 9 1011 414 6 Weight Closed; Open, Capacity Lbs. Ft. In. Ft. In. Price 21 cu. ft. 4,200 5 0 6 4 $ 1 cu. yd. 4,750 5 8 6 10 cu. yds. 8,500 6 4 8 0 1, 2 cu. yds. 9,500 7 0 8 6 1,^ cu. yds. 10,500 7 8 9 4 1, Three-sided orange peel buckets are especially well adapted forthe handling of boulders, broken rock, and other odd-shapedmaterials difficult to hold unless an
. Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency. .\y2 cu. yds. 2 cu. yds. 3 cu. yds. .5 cu. yds. 10 cu. yds. 4,100 4,600 8,500 9,500 11,500 20,000 30,000 556 7 8 9 12 0840060 6 4 6 108 0 8 6 9 1011 414 6 Weight Closed; Open, Capacity Lbs. Ft. In. Ft. In. Price 21 cu. ft. 4,200 5 0 6 4 $ 1 cu. yd. 4,750 5 8 6 10 cu. yds. 8,500 6 4 8 0 1, 2 cu. yds. 9,500 7 0 8 6 1,^ cu. yds. 10,500 7 8 9 4 1, Three-sided orange peel buckets are especially well adapted forthe handling of boulders, broken rock, and other odd-shapedmaterials difficult to hold unless an even force is exerted onbearing part. This is possible with this three-bladed bucket. HANDBOOK OF CONSTRUCTION PLANT An excellent illustration is given in Fig. 41 of what a three-bladed orange peel bucket can do. The points of three-bladedbuckets coming in contact with a boulder or pile will eitherforce it inside the bowl or will grasp the object as in theillustration in such a manner that the holding force will bepositive and the strain equally 41. Three Bladed OrangePeel Bucket. Capacity 21 cu. cu. ^ cu. cu. yds. WeightLbs. 4,200 4,750 8,500 10,500 ? Open,Ft. In. 6 4 6 10 8 0 9 4 Price $ 1, BUILDINGS The only buildings that properly need be described in a bookof this character are those of a temporary or semi-permanentcharacter. Mr. H. G. Tyrrell says, Roughly speaking, the cost of one-story building, complete, is, for sheds and storage-houses, 40cents to 60 cents per square foot of ground, and for such build-ings as machine-shops, foundries, and electric-light plants thatare provided with traveling cranes, the cost is from 60 cents to90 cents per square foot of ground covered. Kidders Architects and Builders Pocket-Book gives the costof a large car barn of exposed iron construction and brick wallserected in 1895 as 9 cents per cubic foot. Mr. Fred T. Hodgson, in the Architects and Builders Magazine,gives the following:
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