 set is a number of wagons — in fact, a train. There are two men to a wagon. If the wagon goes out fourteen times, each man has to fill seven wagons in the course of the day. Each wagon contains two and a quarter cubic yards. The result is, that each...  First Lessons in Theoretical Mechanics - Σελίδα 110των John Francis Twisden - 1874 - 253 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1872 - 428 σελίδες
...fourteen times, each man has to fill seven wagons in the course of the day. Each wagon contains two and a quarter cubic yards. The result is, that each man...has to lift nearly twenty tons weight of earth on a CHAP, shovel over his head into a wagon. The " — • — ' height of the lifting is about six feet.... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - 1873 - 424 σελίδες
...fourteen times, each man has to fill seven wagons in the course of the day. Each wagon contains two and a quarter cubic yards. The result is, that each man...has to lift nearly twenty tons weight of earth on a COMPARISON OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF shovel over his head into a The ISo trades unions among navvies.... | |
 | Daniel William Barrett - 1880 - 202 σελίδες
...fourteen times, each man has to fill seven waggons in the course of a day. Each waggon contains two and a quarter cubic yards. The result is that each man...tons' weight of earth on a shovel over his head into a waggon. The height of the lifting is about six feet. This is taking it at fourteen sets a day, but... | |
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