Engineering and Contracting . Loading Bins .ind Their Relation to Mixer. In order to prevent bucket taking up dirt with the sandand gravel the pits pn the ground were planked not only gave insurance of clean materials, but wasa considerable help in loading the bucket. Cement wasreceived in box cars and carried by cheap labor to thestorehouses shown on the plan and was tranferred tocement bin by traveling crane or directly to mixer hopperby cheap labor, as the case might be. Whenever it waspossible, and this was a considerable part of the time,the cement was transferred directly from
Engineering and Contracting . Loading Bins .ind Their Relation to Mixer. In order to prevent bucket taking up dirt with the sandand gravel the pits pn the ground were planked not only gave insurance of clean materials, but wasa considerable help in loading the bucket. Cement wasreceived in box cars and carried by cheap labor to thestorehouses shown on the plan and was tranferred tocement bin by traveling crane or directly to mixer hopperby cheap labor, as the case might be. Whenever it waspossible, and this was a considerable part of the time,the cement was transferred directly from cars to themixer hopper by cheap labor. By this method only thatportion of a car not used when car was to go on de- Tar Paper Roof-- Cemenf Bir 1_. Sec f ion C-C. to the building, while the lighter spirals were taken tothe floor of building and then assembled. When a consid-erable number of rods were to be placed in a spiral it wasset in place with only a sufficient number of rods to holdit rigid during handling and the balance of rods loweredfrom a movable platform and tied in place from the out-side. Wall steel was placed after one wall form was up,in the usual manner, and tied to this Steel. Structural steel consisted of all metal sash, windows,door jambs, column guards doors, etc., and was furnishedin pieces easily handled. The work done under this head-ing was to unload, place and bolt together the membersand brace or build into forms. Floor Finish. The floor finish consisted of equal parts of cement,sand and fine crushed rock taken from the ledge and wasput on the base before this was thoroughly set. Thisnecessitated several changes of system at the mixer dur-ing the day but by a systematic arrangement of the nec-essary ma
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