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Modern Earthmoving Methods For Scrapers and Rooters (Britstand) 1958
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A Handbook for Engineers and Contractors
Reprint of a late 1950s earthmoving text from the Britstand company, mostly covering older style trailing scrapers, and larger trailing rippers.
Some of the Contents include:
- Performance Data:
- Calculations
- Formula
- Equipment Combinations, Hourly Capacities
- Shrinkage
- Swelling
- Scraper Operations includes:
- Cycles, Figure Eights
- Filling
- Cuts
- Overhill
- Loading:
- Cutting
- Ditches
- Downhill
- Long Haul
- Pivot Cut
- Rocks
- Sand
- Side Hill Cuttings
- Slopes
- Stumps
- Unloading and Spreading:
- Areas
- Culverts
- Embankments
- Finishing Slopes
- Grading
- Sticky Material
- Rooting (Ripping):
- Boulders
- Concrete
- Cuttings
- Lift and Pull
- Tree Roots
- Turning
- Cables:
- Cable Cutter
- Care of Cables
- Sheaves
The last half of the book is a list of the then current equipment.
Code No. 013773, 100 pages, $26.50
This item is listed under the following subjects:
Earthmoving & Construction
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