. Bulk containers for deciduous fruits : costs and efficiency in local assembly operations. Containers; Fruit; Fruit. I*. Method Ifl is the least-cost lug-handling method for all rates of output at hauling distances of 5 miles or less. For hauling distances longer than $ miles, Method L-2 is the least-cost lug-handling method for the higher rates of output. Any given rate of output at any particular hauling distance can be achieved at lower total handling costs with the least-cost bin-handling method than with any of the lug-handling methods considered, with the exception of Method L~l. This m
. Bulk containers for deciduous fruits : costs and efficiency in local assembly operations. Containers; Fruit; Fruit. I*. Method Ifl is the least-cost lug-handling method for all rates of output at hauling distances of 5 miles or less. For hauling distances longer than $ miles, Method L-2 is the least-cost lug-handling method for the higher rates of output. Any given rate of output at any particular hauling distance can be achieved at lower total handling costs with the least-cost bin-handling method than with any of the lug-handling methods considered, with the exception of Method L~l. This method—lugs-trailers—has lower total handling costs than the least-cost bin methods for a considerable range of output rates at the shorter hauling dis- tances—up to 2^0 lugs per hour at 1 mile. However, this range is rapidly re- duced as the length of haul is increased. At a one-way hauling distance of 10 miles, least-cost bin-handling methods have lower total handling costs than any of the lug-handling methods considered for all output rates greater than $0 lugs per hour. If both handling and container costs are considered, least-cost bin- handling methods have lower total handling costs than any of the lug-handling methods considered at all rates of output at all hauling distances. This is be- cause container costs, per volume of fruit handled, are approximately k$ per cent lower with bins than with lugs. Thus, it appears that five factors must be considered in attempting to determine the effects of a shift from lugs to bins on the labor and equipment requirements and the costs of performing orchard-to-plant transportation opera- tions. These are: (1) the lug-handling method currently being used; (2) the bin-handling method that is to be used; (3) the rate of output that is to be attained; (U) the distance the fruit is to be hauled in moving it from the orchard to the plant; and {$) the relative cost of the two types of containers. This report makes specific comparisons
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