. De re metallica. Metallurgy; Mineral industries. 156 BOOK ^\i^^.,i,TV\^\^""||'|'"''""(|l^ A—Rectangular iron bands on truck. B—Its iron straps. D—Wooden rollers. E—Small iron keys. F—Large G—Same truck upside down. C—Iron axle, slunt iron pin. The open truck has a capacity half as large again as a wheelbarrow ; it is about four feet long and about two and a half feet wide and deep ; and since its shape is rectangular, it is bound together with three rectangular iron bands, and besides these there are iron straps on all sides. Two small iron axles are fixed to th
. De re metallica. Metallurgy; Mineral industries. 156 BOOK ^\i^^.,i,TV\^\^""||'|'"''""(|l^ A—Rectangular iron bands on truck. B—Its iron straps. D—Wooden rollers. E—Small iron keys. F—Large G—Same truck upside down. C—Iron axle, slunt iron pin. The open truck has a capacity half as large again as a wheelbarrow ; it is about four feet long and about two and a half feet wide and deep ; and since its shape is rectangular, it is bound together with three rectangular iron bands, and besides these there are iron straps on all sides. Two small iron axles are fixed to the bottom, around the ends of which wooden rollers revolve on either side ; in order that the rollers shall not fall off the immovable axles, there are small iron keys. A large blunt pin fixed to the bottom of the truck runs in a groove of a plank in such a way that the truck does not leave the beaten track. Holding the back part with his hands, the carrier pushes out the truck laden with excavated material, and pushes it back again empty. Some people call it a " dog "®, because when it moves it makes a noise which seems to them not unlike the bark of a dog. This truck is used when they draw loads out of the longest tunnels, both because it is moved more easily and because a heavier load can be placed in it. Bateas' are hollowed out of a single block of wood ; the smaller kind are generally two feet long and one foot wide. When they have been filled with ore, especially when but little is dug from the shafts and tunnels, men either carry them out on their shoulders, or bear them away hung from ^Canis. The Germans in Agricola's time called a truck a hundt—a hound. ''Alveiis,— "; The Spanish term 6(j/fc(i has been so generally adopted into the mining vocabulary for a wooden bowl for these purposes, that we introduce it Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for re
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