T HE I R 11 1 G A T I O N AGE. 



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INDISPENSABLE for SLOPING-BANK DITCH 



No hand-labor, hand-trimmed ditch can be dug within fifty to seventy-five per cent of the cost of an 

 Austin machine ditch. The Austin Trenching Machine with Bank-Sloping Attachment will do the work 



of from 80 to 150 men. It will dig a 

 ditch which will keep its 



No. 00 cuts 5 ft. deep, 2>2 ft. bottom, 9 ft. top 

 Special cuts 5 ft. deep, 4 ft. bottom, 13 ft. top 

 No. 10 cuts 6 ft. deep, 4 ft. bottom, 16 ft. top 



Or any dimensions smaller than named. 



itively self-cleaning buckets equip it to dig, 

 without clogging, the stickiest clay and gumbo. 

 Its multipedal rolling platform tractions 



prevent it from miring in any ground over 

 which a wagon can be driven. It travels over 

 country roads \y^ miles an hour. Digs at a 

 maximum rate of 9 lin. ft. a minute. The spoil 

 is deposited on either side of the ditch. Motive 

 power, steam or gasoline. 



This machine is converted quickly and easily 

 into a trench excavator for digging ditches with 

 vertical sides for tile drainage, sewers, water 

 and gas mains, simply by substitution of a 

 trenching boom for the wheel boom. When 

 one machine outfits a contractor for dig- 

 ging tile ditches, sewer trenches, and field 

 ditches with sloping sides he is fortified against 

 attacks of any ordinary competition. 



permanent 

 shape. 



A ditch with sloped banks is distinctly 

 superior to one with ragged sides; it is 

 less liable to scour and to formation of 

 bars ; its banks do not cave into the chan- 

 nel; it costs less to maintain; it is more 

 presentable; it carries more water per 

 unit of earth removed; and when the 

 sloped-bank ditch 'is dug with an Austin 

 machine it is ready for lining with con- 

 crete or other impervious material with- 

 out any. further shaping or trimming so 

 accurate is the grade and slope and true 

 the sides and bottom. 



The Austin Trench Machine with 

 Bank-Sloping Attachment is inde- 

 pendent of conditions. Its all steel 

 construction, with manganese steel 

 working parts, equips it for trenching 

 any material except solid rock. Its pos- 



Makes Trenches 15 in., 18 in. and 24 in. wide, maximum depth of 8 feet. 

 Send for Catalogue No. 200 



We specialize in ditching machinery both for open ditches and pipe line work. These various machines are known to con- 

 tractors as the "AUSTIN LINE," manufactured by the F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Co., comprising the following: 



Drainage Excavator Type A Levee Builder Side Hill Ditcher Orange Peel Ditcher Pipe LineExcavator 



Drainage Excavator Type B Drag Line Excavator Highway Ditcher Farm Tile Ditcher 



AUSTIN SEWER AND WATER WORKS EXCAVATOR AUSTIN COMBINATION SLOPING OR VERTICAL-BANK EXCAVATOR 



F. C. AUSTIN DRAINAGE EXCAVATOR COMPANY 



RAILWAY EXCHANGE, CHICAGO 



AGENTS WANTED IN OPEN TERRITORY. 



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