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wmmm Th e era Id The Sewiekley Valley's Home-News Weekly Vol.35. No. 7. SEWICKLEY, PA„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939 Price 5 Cents J5K__55'. 5tew 3_>oulevar6 in H)e 3tta_u_i£ A part of the $150,000 worth of equipment being utilized by D. W. Challis & Sons, Inc., in rebuilding a narrow dirt road into a boulevard. The two upper pictures show two ways of grading, the conventional style, in which a .large Diesel-powered shovel 'casts' dirt while two Diesel caterpillar 'bulldozers' spread it. The improved method, shown at top right, uses machines which cost $25,000 each, but scrape up, haul and spread 12 cubic yards in one continuous operation. Lower left; another view of the new 'carry-all' grader cutting a 'high spot' down to grade. The powerful Diesel engines are very economical. Lower right is an experimental dump truck with caterpillar tread. Note the seat and steering wheel beside the engine, arranged in such a way that the driver can face either toward the front or rear of tho truck. The vertical dump'body can be also used to spread the load after it is dumped. .ftam__>_.>_>^*s--1 : - ■niui))»)p _UIU1____> Local Contracting Firm Rushes Grading On New Road $150,000 worth of equipment and 75 men are rushing the grading of the first section of McKnight Road for D. W. Challis & Sons, Sowickloy, who woro awarded the $329,730 contract in December, In exactly a month, 45,000 cubic yards of excavation has been completed, of tho 190,000 yards estimated for the project; the remainder must be 'done in three and a half months and the whole job completed by July 8. For the first time tho firm has practically all of its equipment on ono job close to Sowickloy, and tho dirt is really flying. There are, two brand new 'Carry-all' excavators drawn by Diesel- powered tractors. Weighing 50,000 pounds empty, each of tho machines, which cost $25,775 apiece, and are equipped for night work, can scrape up, haul and dump more than twelve cubic yards of dirt in ono continuous operation. Except for digging through rock, thoso machines, each operated by ono man, roplaco a power shovel and several trucks and a bulldozer, formerly required for tho same operation. A new caterpillar dump truck, costing $7,500, is also being used on tho road job on an experimental basis.' Tho first ono built by tho manufacturer, it has tho swiveled driver's scat beside the engine, with dual controls, so that the driver may face either front or back of the truck, which operates equally well in either direction. Tho dump body goes to a vertical position, and the rear end is V-shaped, so that tho load can be. spread, eliminating the necessity of a bulldozer. This truck, thus tested for the manufacturer on this job, has now been shipped back to the manufacturer who wants to tear it down to find anything that might have gone wrnng, and then it will bo shipped baek to tho job. Altogether thero are two power shovels, two carry-alls, threo rollers, three bulldozers, a power grader, two air compressors, a concrete mixer, and seven trucks, beside the caterpillar (lump truck which has better traction due to the caterpillar equipment on the rear axlo. Most of the equipment has lights for night work, which will bo. necessary in warmer weather to complete the job on schedule. There are also a number of pieces of smaller equipment on tlw job, and, of courso, none of tha coiicreto laying machines, except for ono mixer, is thero yet. T-io ono mixer is pouring concrete for tho first of the four box culverts, ranging in length from 205 to 220 feet, which will carry McKnight Run .under the new road. The first of the culverts, which will be 12 x 15 feet, was nearly completed last Friday. Most of tho new equipment is Diesel-powered, for economy of operation. Tho biggest motor on the project uses an average oi' 20 gallons of fuel oil in an eight-hour day with wide open throttle. Fuel oil costs 7 cents a gallon, on the job. For comparison, a four-year-old gasoline-operated shovel consumes 50 gallons of gasoline a day, at 14- cents a gallon. This road will bo 80 feet wide, with a 14-foot landscaped center strip and four traffic Innos, each twelve foot wide. It starts from the Babcock Boulevard at 'Brookvillo' (where Covert's Barbecue is located), about a mile and a half northwest of tho intersection of tho Thompson Run Read. II. will continue for one and n. half miles up tho valley of MelOiight's Run to a black-top road, State Highway route 02192, under the present contract, Bids will be opened iu March for another section of the road, probably tho stretch from tho State highway rout'.' to tho intersect ion with Babcock Boulevard, near tho Oum- bcrt School for Hirls. When liuit is finished the new voad will bo a short cut route from Millvale and the city to North Park and other points on Bub- cock Boulevard, relieving much of the present heavy summer traffic on that busy highway. Later a third section will connect the intersection at Brookville with Bast Streot, North Side, following the old right of way of the Harmony Snort Line electric tracks. There is a provision in the Challis contract which would provide for an overgradc crossing of the Babcock Boulevard at the. Brookville intersection, if State, county and PWA engineers decide that one is advisable there. The old trolley right of way is high on the hillside and the engineers have the choice of providing an overhead crossing or of making a deep cut for a crossing at grade. There is $1,500,000 available for the new road, of which the Public Works Administration is providing 45 per cent. Allegheny County is sponsoring the project, which is being undertaken to provide a moro direct route from Pittsburgh to North Park and other points. Tho other alternative would havo been to widen Babcock Boulevard, which would have presented many difficulties since a traffic division strip would have to be provided, as well as another two lanes of pavement, and tho grade of tho old road would not conform with tho now construction. ________■__
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Title | 1939-01-19.Page01 |
Date | 01-19-1939 |
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Full Text | wmmm Th e era Id The Sewiekley Valley's Home-News Weekly Vol.35. No. 7. SEWICKLEY, PA„ THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939 Price 5 Cents J5K__55'. 5tew 3_>oulevar6 in H)e 3tta_u_i£ A part of the $150,000 worth of equipment being utilized by D. W. Challis & Sons, Inc., in rebuilding a narrow dirt road into a boulevard. The two upper pictures show two ways of grading, the conventional style, in which a .large Diesel-powered shovel 'casts' dirt while two Diesel caterpillar 'bulldozers' spread it. The improved method, shown at top right, uses machines which cost $25,000 each, but scrape up, haul and spread 12 cubic yards in one continuous operation. Lower left; another view of the new 'carry-all' grader cutting a 'high spot' down to grade. The powerful Diesel engines are very economical. Lower right is an experimental dump truck with caterpillar tread. Note the seat and steering wheel beside the engine, arranged in such a way that the driver can face either toward the front or rear of tho truck. The vertical dump'body can be also used to spread the load after it is dumped. .ftam__>_.>_>^*s--1 : - ■niui))»)p _UIU1____> Local Contracting Firm Rushes Grading On New Road $150,000 worth of equipment and 75 men are rushing the grading of the first section of McKnight Road for D. W. Challis & Sons, Sowickloy, who woro awarded the $329,730 contract in December, In exactly a month, 45,000 cubic yards of excavation has been completed, of tho 190,000 yards estimated for the project; the remainder must be 'done in three and a half months and the whole job completed by July 8. For the first time tho firm has practically all of its equipment on ono job close to Sowickloy, and tho dirt is really flying. There are, two brand new 'Carry-all' excavators drawn by Diesel- powered tractors. Weighing 50,000 pounds empty, each of tho machines, which cost $25,775 apiece, and are equipped for night work, can scrape up, haul and dump more than twelve cubic yards of dirt in ono continuous operation. Except for digging through rock, thoso machines, each operated by ono man, roplaco a power shovel and several trucks and a bulldozer, formerly required for tho same operation. A new caterpillar dump truck, costing $7,500, is also being used on tho road job on an experimental basis.' Tho first ono built by tho manufacturer, it has tho swiveled driver's scat beside the engine, with dual controls, so that the driver may face either front or back of the truck, which operates equally well in either direction. Tho dump body goes to a vertical position, and the rear end is V-shaped, so that tho load can be. spread, eliminating the necessity of a bulldozer. This truck, thus tested for the manufacturer on this job, has now been shipped back to the manufacturer who wants to tear it down to find anything that might have gone wrnng, and then it will bo shipped baek to tho job. Altogether thero are two power shovels, two carry-alls, threo rollers, three bulldozers, a power grader, two air compressors, a concrete mixer, and seven trucks, beside the caterpillar (lump truck which has better traction due to the caterpillar equipment on the rear axlo. Most of the equipment has lights for night work, which will bo. necessary in warmer weather to complete the job on schedule. There are also a number of pieces of smaller equipment on tlw job, and, of courso, none of tha coiicreto laying machines, except for ono mixer, is thero yet. T-io ono mixer is pouring concrete for tho first of the four box culverts, ranging in length from 205 to 220 feet, which will carry McKnight Run .under the new road. The first of the culverts, which will be 12 x 15 feet, was nearly completed last Friday. Most of tho new equipment is Diesel-powered, for economy of operation. Tho biggest motor on the project uses an average oi' 20 gallons of fuel oil in an eight-hour day with wide open throttle. Fuel oil costs 7 cents a gallon, on the job. For comparison, a four-year-old gasoline-operated shovel consumes 50 gallons of gasoline a day, at 14- cents a gallon. This road will bo 80 feet wide, with a 14-foot landscaped center strip and four traffic Innos, each twelve foot wide. It starts from the Babcock Boulevard at 'Brookvillo' (where Covert's Barbecue is located), about a mile and a half northwest of tho intersection of tho Thompson Run Read. II. will continue for one and n. half miles up tho valley of MelOiight's Run to a black-top road, State Highway route 02192, under the present contract, Bids will be opened iu March for another section of the road, probably tho stretch from tho State highway rout'.' to tho intersect ion with Babcock Boulevard, near tho Oum- bcrt School for Hirls. When liuit is finished the new voad will bo a short cut route from Millvale and the city to North Park and other points on Bub- cock Boulevard, relieving much of the present heavy summer traffic on that busy highway. Later a third section will connect the intersection at Brookville with Bast Streot, North Side, following the old right of way of the Harmony Snort Line electric tracks. There is a provision in the Challis contract which would provide for an overgradc crossing of the Babcock Boulevard at the. Brookville intersection, if State, county and PWA engineers decide that one is advisable there. The old trolley right of way is high on the hillside and the engineers have the choice of providing an overhead crossing or of making a deep cut for a crossing at grade. There is $1,500,000 available for the new road, of which the Public Works Administration is providing 45 per cent. Allegheny County is sponsoring the project, which is being undertaken to provide a moro direct route from Pittsburgh to North Park and other points. Tho other alternative would havo been to widen Babcock Boulevard, which would have presented many difficulties since a traffic division strip would have to be provided, as well as another two lanes of pavement, and tho grade of tho old road would not conform with tho now construction. ________■__ |
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