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Excerpt from Handbook of Steam Shovel Work To establish these factors it was necessary to observe a large number of shovels in operation, and an elaborate description of the work observed has been necessary in order to afford an adequate statement of the result. These appear in Chapters V to IX inclusive. Wherever possible, the observations have been made by our men. Ou questions of coal and oil consumption and the like we have had to take the statements of shovel runners, checked more or less by our own observations, and in the items of repair cost, etc., we have had to rely on the statements of others. Where such statements have seemed not to be accurate, we have discarded them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.