Modern Management Applied to Construction (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...a D-handle, the measurement is made from the back of the "D" to the ground. This lift can also be changed except on the shovels made with dies. The author believes this last method of considering the lift is to be preferred, for it is this measurement that gives the user the idea of what lift he must make with his arm and back in handling a shovel. A simple test of the strength of a shovel is to clamp the blade of a shovel to a table or bench, with the handle sticking up. To this end a pressure can be applied with a machine or weights can be tied on it. Any well made shovel should, without developing weakness, stand a pressure of about 200 pounds. How Shovels Are Sold For domestic trade, most manufacturers tie their shovels in half-dozen lots, although they can be purchased wrapped in burlap, crated or boxed. For export trade, the bundles or crates contain a dozen shovels. Shovels are sold by manufacturers either direct to the consumer or through agents or hardware dealers. Manufacturers selling direct always sell under their own brands. Those selling through jobbers may sell under their own brands, and may also brand the shovels under the local jobber's or dealer's private brand. No matter how the shovel reaches the consumer, a manufacturer selling only under his own brand is apt to give better satisfaction to the consumer, for his name and brand are on the shovel and he feels responsible. On the other hand, a shovel offered for sale under a dealer's brand may not equal in grade those sold under the manufacturer's brand. Then, too, the responsibility is divided. The customer will not know who the manufacturer is, so he must rely for satisfaction upon the dealer. The latter is apt to place the fault upon the manufacturer, and say he will...