The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
MOTOR TRUCKS NOW
HELP ON SUBWAYS
What GarfOrds Are Doing for
a Contractor Over in
Brooklyn.
TIME AND ENERGY SAVED
~ PUTNAM DREW, II. d. Iayisr
Corporation.

Corporation.
Hundreds OF men are to-day burrow-
ing under the earth all over Greater
New York, building the most wonderful
and extensive subway system ever
planned and executed. These human
burrowers under the earth have TO
throw out the dirt and stones TO the
surface. a vast accumulation OF earth
and rock indeed. This accumulation
cannot be left in a mound, even TX
the space the mound would I'LL were
not most valuable and impossible to use
for such a purpose. Therefore, his
earth and stone and rock and other
debris. thousands of tons of it, must De
carted away from the holes leading
down 20 the subway excavations.
How to do this most rapidly and eco
nomically is the problem confronting
the contractor who has secured the Job
OF excavation. The development in dig
ging machinery during the past few
years has been great, so that the con-
tractor can now erect "A skeleton struc-
ture to carry great buckets on an end
less chain from the bottom of the tube
TO the open air at comparatively small
cost. Then these huge buckets, each
holding about Ave cubic yards OF excava-
ton, are rapidly reflled by the big
power shovels and by hand shovellers.
As one OF the filled buckets reaches "A
point on the framework about ten foet
above the top of the ground II is halted,
tipped and Jumped into a waiting wagon
or truck beneath.
Only a few years ago these wagons
were always pulled by a span of horses.
sometimes three or four horses. To-day
most % the subway contractors employ
only motor trucks, finding a great
| saving by their use over horse drawn
vehicles. And then the contractor haV-
ing proved by experiment that he can
save approximately half IN time and
labor and money by doing his hauling
wtth motor driven truck-, the next thing
for hin to determine rs what make OF
motor truck to buy"
one Of the largest ~ IL. contracts
let LOT pullullS VI NNf I'N I"iSA'IH
Parkway subway, over IN Brooklyn. is
TO the Crawford Company OF 100 Monta-
que street. Brooklyn. which has the Flat
bush section to build. The quantity OF
earth is such that rapid excavation can
usually be made. bu, there is a hau.
OF over three miles TO get this earth
to the scows to be dumped. HORSES are
too slow to do this work with economy,
so, aftsg long trials on other work. a.
well AZ this, the Crawford Company de-
cided o. Garford motor trucks as the
- all around truck for their use.
~ different times this company
ordered Garfor!s, until q IL has
twelve OF Is own in operation and
has hired eleven moro Garfords-a total
! ~ twcnty-thrcr they are now using.
The twelve they own themselves are
an OF the tractor with trailer model,
tie others are six ton, automatic power
dump models Each truck viii carry
five or SIX cubic Yards of earth and
make eighteen trips a day OF nine
hours, 10 the dumping scow. three mile-
and more away. Multiplying is by s
ny % and YOU get 2.o7o cubic yards o.
earth carried away eighteen trips a
day, six miles 10 the tr.p-a t~ireless.
patient army
Then at night, when horses would he
worn out, even II il werc possible for
them to- do this work, these motor tracks
"a back ard forth with anuther set 81
drivers, bringing lu crushed stone and
asphalt and other material. Many Of
them work t~weuty-four hours 2 dty ~
the hardest kind OF hauling. There -
"A steep grade to top IN getting TO the
dumping platform by the scoWs. The
/ I,lrftrl salts r.rbt mn Nrtb,nt haSf4ut-
Ing In reality, these twcuty-three Gar
fords load and dump more than tNen-
y zone hundred cubic yards ~ earth and
stones from the tunnel excavation every
nine hour day, rpr IL has been found
that they VIII stand a heavier load
than they are registered for and Still
keep IN condition.
Il has been found thai u - not
economical to put moro than sIN tons
on any form ~ rubber tire Vet made
~, erloaded, they wear ont most rap
idly, 50 a shorter base tractor is pro-
y,ded, hauling a trailer with steel tres,
on which can he placed loads up to
fifteen tons, \ contractor can thus loat
M one ~ his trucks with thu heaviest
structural! iron and heavy derricks and
60 along serenely
Many OF the lighter Gtrford trucks
! AZ" ais1 used hN Contractors as rus
about delivery wlu"r- and 20 ride ove,
the grounds and perhaps carry some a
the lighter a'tc'cs.
There are Thousands or mon All INV
Greater New YORK who Wtlt to put in
motor trucks, but who fc," To invest
50 much money because they think thu
motor truck bushes, 80 am experiment
and they viii Matt t'd ~rr what the
u'hc' THINK before t,a. lNru-,Nc, >eu-
turc iN To All e..h, t '"' oar to tbs
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