1922 STEAM SHOVELS & Trenching Machinery NEW reprint Start Price USD 5.97 Current Price USD 10.50 Time Left - Bid Count 2 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 05, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 12, 2008 Location 20 miles west of Durham See more about '1922 STEAM SHOVELS & Trenching Machinery NEW reprint' Description Steam Shovels & Trenching Machinery, 1922, by Frank D. Graham, reprinted by Nation Builder Books, Leesburg, VA, 2001, 5½ x 8½ softcover booklet, 23 pages. This is a new photoduplication of the two consecutive chapters on steam shovels and steam trenching machinery, from the 1922 edition of the Audels Engineers and Mechanics Guide No. 2. As is usual with all Audel's material, this chapter is richly illustrated, with 28 drawings and photographs. The drawings are excellent, but the quality of some of the photos in the original leave much to be desired. Unfortunately, the poor quality of these photos is faithfully reproduced in the reprint. Table of Contents: Steam Shovels Track Shovels Traction Devices Modifications of Standard Shovels Sewer Trench Booms Clam Shell Booms Drag Scraper Booms Jack Knife Booms Trenching Machinery Drag Line Excavators Trench Excavators Ditching Machines List of illustrations: Thew full circle swing steam shovel (side elevation drawing) Kilgore steam shovel, 1 ½ yards size (side elevation drawing) Thew horizontal crowding motion, for handling shallow cuts Thew shovel, showing prying motion and swivel dipper arm Semi-portable mounting, consisting of rollers and skids Caterpillar traction mounting Four wheel equalizing trucks mounting Bucyrus steam shovel (poor quality photo) Bucyrus steel boom showing swinging and boom engine thrusting gears Bucyrus swinging and crowding engine Five poor quality photos showing a Thew shovel being used for various types of cuts and motions Victor 18-ton steam shovel, mounted on wheels (side elevation drawing) Three poor quality photos showing a Bucyrus shovel being used for various types of cuts and motions Bucyrus double hoisting engine with kink motion reverse Diagram showing range of operation of Monighan dragline excavators Monighan walking dragline excavator, view of all equipment on upper platform with house removed Monighan walking dragline excavators (side elevation drawing) Monighan walking device as used on a dragline excavator Two poor quality photos showing a Bucyrus dragline excavator Austin excavator beginning ditch showing method of dumping buckets Small sewer trench dug by Parsons excavator (the machine is in the photo, but so far away you can hardly tell what it is) Parsons ditching machine (side elevation drawing) Please note this is a new photoduplicated reproduction, not an original. 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