A BALLASTING MACHINE
■ On Monday an exhaustive trial of Qitcrter’s patent ballast excavator and filler was -held at the railway gravel pit, on the Glenham branch line, near .Menzies Ferrv (Wyndham). Al r Hilary Qnerter, the ui-vi-ntor, worked the machine; and the trial was made the presence of a. number of the -State railway officials (who bad been specially deputed to report on the machine), among whom were Messrs A. J. M'Crfidte, District Engineer, Invercargill section; I‘. V\. M'Lcan, District Engineer, Dunedin: and Inspectors Die (Gore), Miller (Dunedin), and others. It was decided to make an all-day test of the machine, which began _w ork at 8 a.m. and kept steadily oil until 5 p.m., with forty-five fninutes spell at luqch time, and another forty-live minutes' break while alterations were made in the gear. Everything ran smoothly and satisfactorily. Fifty ballast waggons, holding seven tons each (live cubic vardst, were loaded in the day. One truck was filled iu Train. With the old method, it is considered good work for a gang of thirteen men to fill thirty-six waggons in eight horns. Air Qnerter and another man to distribute the gravel for the waggons were the only hands required to work the machine, while the cost of kerosene for the machine supplying motive power was rather under 5d per hour.
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Evening Star, Issue 12307, 23 September 1904, Page 3
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220A BALLASTING MACHINE Evening Star, Issue 12307, 23 September 1904, Page 3
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