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Steam Shovels and Steam Shovel Work

Chapter 8: Transcriber's Notes
By Edward Adolph Hermann
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A practical manual examines steam shovels as earthmoving machines, distinguishing principal types, constructional elements, and variations among makers. It details transport, erection, machinery, and maintenance, and outlines operating methods, crew organization, tools, and common repairs. Illustrated guidance addresses typical tasks such as widening cuts, loading and unloading, disposing of excavated material, and using dirt trains and rapid unloaders. The text surveys the kinds of soil and rock these machines can handle, notes operational limitations, and discusses applications in railway work, grading, fills, and quarrying. Practical cost, capacity, and efficiency considerations conclude the treatment to aid planning and execution of shovel work.

—BACON'S—
HOISTING
ENGINES
For Every Possible Duty.

FARREL'S—Ore and Rock
CRUSHERS.
Screens, Elevators, Etc.

THE STANDARD FOR 25 YEARS.

EARLE C. BACON,
ENGINEER,

Havemeyer Building, New York.
WORKS: PACIFIC IRON WORKS.
FARREL FOUNDRY & MACHINE CO.

Steam Shovel
REPAIRS.

Dippers, Dipper Teeth, Dipper Bails, Dipper Mouths, Kept in Stock.

CHAINS OF ULSTER AND NORWAY IRON.

We have built a new shop, and are preparing designs for
STEAM SHOVELS
of very substantial construction.
We call attention to the fact that we have made for years a specialty of Pile Drivers and Steam Dredges.

VULCAN IRON WORKS,
CHICAGO.

NEW YORK DREDGING CO.,
ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS.

Hydraulic Dredge discharging through 5,700 ft. Pipe. Will dig and put ashore any Material, Rock excepted.
Patent Canal Excavator.
Machines at Work, Washington, D. C., Jacksonville, Fla., and Oakland, Cal.

INCORPORATED UNDER LAWS OF NEW YORK.

CEO. W. CATT, M. Am. Soc. C. E., President and Engineer.
O. L. WILLIAMS, Secretary and Treasurer.

SPECIALTIES:
Machinery for Economical Excavation of Canals for Dredging; for Reclamation of Low Lands.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

WORLD BUILDING, New York, N. Y.

G. L. STEUBNER & CO.,

—MANUFACTURERS OF—

HOISTING BUCKETS

OF ALL KINDS AND FOR ALL PURPOSES.

Side Dumping Cars,
End Dumping Cars,
Bottom Dumping Cars,
Charging Cars,
Special Cars,
Iron Wheelbarrows,
Iron Hoisting Blocks,
Tar Heating Furnaces,
Sheet-Iron Work,
Iron Forgings, Etc.
...
Send for Catalogue and Price List.

168-176 EAST THIRD ST., LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y.

THE BEST STEAM SHOVEL CAR.

WRITE FOR PRICES AND CATALOGUE TO ——

Ryan-McDonald Mfg. Co.,
44 SOUTH STREET,
BALTIMORE, MD.,
MANUFACTURERS OF ——

Light Locomotives, Contractors' Cars, Derrick
Irons and Crabs, Hoisting Engines and All
Classes of Narrow Gauge Cars.

CONTRACTORS'
AND
RAILROAD SUPPLIES.
Construction,
Dump and Mine Cars.

CATALOGUE AND PRICES ON APPLICATION.

HAROLD C. DAYTON & CO.,
44 DEY STREET, NEW YORK.

M. BEATTY & SONS,
WELLAND, ONT.
Dredges, Ditchers, Derricks and Steam Shovels
OF VARIOUS STYLES AND SIZES TO SUIT ANY WORK.

SUBMARINE ROCK DRILLING MACHINERY, HOISTING ENGINES, SUSPENSION CABLEWAYS, HORSE-POWER HOISTERS, GANG STONE-SAWS, CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS for Water, Sand and Gold Mining.

AND OTHER CONTRACTORS' PLANT.

Contractor's Locomotives on Hand.

WE Keep on hand a number of sizes both narrow and wide gauge locomotives, of best construction, for contractors' service. Catalogue mailed and prices quoted on application.

H. K. PORTER & CO.,
BUILDERS OF LIGHT LOCOMOTIVES,
WOOD STREET, Near 7th Ave., PITTSBURGH, PA.

NO. 1 SHOVEL ON CHICAGO DRAINAGE CANAL.

OSGOOD DREDGE CO., Albany, N. Y.
MFRS. OF DREDGES AND STEAM SHOVELS.

OTIS & CHAPMAN,
STANDARD GRAVEL and HARDPAN
EXCAVATOR
MANUFACTURED EXCLUSIVELY BY
JOHN SOUTHER & CO., Boston.

Earth Displaced at ONE-QUARTER LESS EXPENSE Than by Any Other Machine

To Whom It May Concern:

I hereby certify that I have used the Otis patent improved Steam Excavator the past twenty years, in all kinds of earth excavation, and believe it to be the best dry land excavator in use, and the only one that will work successfully in hardpan material. I have excavated and put into cars five million yards under one contract for making land in Boston; with two of these machines I loaded from seventy to eighty thousand yards per month.

N. C. MUNSON.

C. P. Treat,
CONTRACTOR BANGOR & AROOSTOOK R. R.

J. A. LANE, Manager.
ROB'T SMITH, Ass't Manager.
S. H. DOTY, Engineer.
H. C. DECKER, Cashier.

Houlton, Maine, December 31, 1894.
This is to certify that in the month of October, 1894, the bearer, Mr. John B. Shaw, with 1¾ yds. Souther Steam Shovel, loaded on cars 38,168 cubic yds. of ballast. Pit measurement by R. R. Co.'s Engineers.

(Signed) C. P. TREAT,
per S. H. Doty.

Transcriber's Notes

Illustrations in this booklet are not always labelled in order of appearance, so full page diagrams may appear out of order. Fig. 4. seems to have been ommitted and is not found (or referenced) in any of the online sources. Minor corrections made to punctuation. inconsistent hyphenation and spelling.

In particular:

  • p7. "rceiving" changed to "receiving".
  • p11. "wabble" has been left - it appears to be a variant spelling of wobble.
  • p18. "overhanging ledges or these materials" changed to "overhanging ledges of these materials".
  • p22. "only few men" changed to "only a few men"
  • TABLE II.
    "Loose gravel 1 30 1 30 2 60 3 90 4 12"
    changed to
    "Loose gravel 1 30 1 30 2 60 3 90 4 120"
  • p50. "steam or air driver" change to "steam or air driven"