A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Side-cutting Euclid loader speeds Palisades dam fill
Fill work on 13,800,000-cu yd Palisades Dam in southwestern Idaho is performed with elevating loader, shovel, and dragline; Euclid loader, pulled by two tractors, travels about 3 mph and loads 25-cu yd truck in 50 sec; shovel was equipped with 5 1/2-cu yd dipper, and dragline with 6 1/2-cu yd bucket; impervious fill comes from two borrow pits, material of which is ideal for loading with loader equipped with side cutting attachment.
Side-cutting Euclid loader speeds Palisades dam fill
Fill work on 13,800,000-cu yd Palisades Dam in southwestern Idaho is performed with elevating loader, shovel, and dragline; Euclid loader, pulled by two tractors, travels about 3 mph and loads 25-cu yd truck in 50 sec; shovel was equipped with 5 1/2-cu yd dipper, and dragline with 6 1/2-cu yd bucket; impervious fill comes from two borrow pits, material of which is ideal for loading with loader equipped with side cutting attachment.
Side-cutting Euclid loader speeds Palisades dam fill
Construction Methods Equipment
Wise, L.L. (author)
1953
4 pages
Article (Journal)
English
© Metadata Copyright Elsevier B. V. All rights reserved.
Palisades will be biggest earth fill dam built by bureau of reclamation
Engineering Index Backfile | 1947
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1953
Engineering Index Backfile | 1914
Rita Moreno: The Dynamic Star of West Side Story in Pacific Palisades
| British Library Online Contents | 1996