FOIIEST-TRAMWAYS. :U1 



windlass, which is very effective, the method of loading by 

 means of it being shown in Fig. 220. 



How useful it is to have recourse to machinery, in case of 

 extraordinary demands on labour, was seen in 1891 and 1892, 

 in Brannenburg in Upper Bavaria, when thousands of large 

 logs from trees killed by the " Nun " moth caterpillars in the 



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Ebersberg Forest were laden on to trucks by a steam-crane 

 as shown in Fig. 221. 



By means of one of these cranes the log is raised high 

 enough for the rails to be laid under it, and the trucks 

 pushed on to them, when the log is lowered and fastened 

 by chains on to the trucks. Heavy logs must be laden by 

 means of cranes, and only smaller ones by the use of levers. 

 In the case of firewood there is no difficulty in loading the 

 trucks. 



[The cost of I) miles of tramway (I main lines and 1} miles 



