Plough Book Sales

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

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