Public works . at the power-produc-ing end of the new machine, whichhas a larger boiler and a new aux-iliary exhaust. The new 1922-1923 Erie has a widerall-round usefulness than has pre-viously been developed in one steamshovel and can be quickly convertedto a locomotive crane to handle aclamshell bucket, orange-peel or drag-line bucket; it is easily changed overto a steam hoe for trench excavation;or it can be readily equipped withtrucks for railroad ditching. Forregular steam shovel service it is suit-able for road grading, cellar excava-tion, quarrying rock, excavating sandand gravel and ot
Public works . at the power-produc-ing end of the new machine, whichhas a larger boiler and a new aux-iliary exhaust. The new 1922-1923 Erie has a widerall-round usefulness than has pre-viously been developed in one steamshovel and can be quickly convertedto a locomotive crane to handle aclamshell bucket, orange-peel or drag-line bucket; it is easily changed overto a steam hoe for trench excavation;or it can be readily equipped withtrucks for railroad ditching. Forregular steam shovel service it is suit-able for road grading, cellar excava-tion, quarrying rock, excavating sandand gravel and other ordinary steam hoe. traveling on solidground in advance of trench excava-tion, prevents cave-ins and handleshard materials and large boulderswith all the strength and power of asteam shovel. The Erie Steam Shovel Company,by which the machine is manufac-tured, calls attention to the higherstandard of workmanship and bettermaterials in this machine than havebeen possible at any time beforesince ERIE STEAM .^I[ll^-l:L \ViCATERPILLAR TRACTION TRIPPIN TH IXTEllNWL LrBi;iC-\TEDAND .AUTOMATIC BUCKETDEVCE. 378 PUBLIC WORKS Vol. 52, No. 20 A DOLLAR A DAY FOR FUEL A few months ago the Bucyrus the addition to its line ofproducts of a gasoUne shovel of a dis-tinctly novel and very much improvedtype, the most revolutionizing feature ofwhich was the ingenious method ofoperating the thrust without the use ofan independent engine mounted on theboom whereby even more power is ob-tainable than with a steam shovel of thesame size. This company has now developed,after a long period of thorough experi-mentation, the use of a Diesel type enginefor this shovel, the importance of whichannouncement lies principally in thegreatly reduced fuel cost. This shovel, known as the Bucyrus30-B oil shovel, will use as fuel anycheap, low grade oil of high heat valuewhich will flow freely. This machine has been severely tested,both as a shovel and as a dragline, forseveral months,
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