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An Austin Trench Excavator 



WITH BANK-SLOPING ATTACHMENT 



Will dig vertical tile trenches or sewer trenches up to 2}/2 ft. wide and 10 ft. deep, and can be 

 changed quickly to dig open ditches 5 ft. deep, 13 ft. top width, with sloping sides. One convertible- 

 boom machine equips a contractor to dig 

 any type of drainage ditch or trench. It 

 will straddle an old open ditch and per- 

 fectly shape and clean it, or dig a tile 

 trench at the bottom of the old ditch. 



Wherever the Economics of Ditch- 

 ing Receive Consideration the ditching 

 machine has replaced hand labor. The 

 contractor must bid in competition with 

 machine work. It is important, then, 

 not merely that he shall have a machine 

 ditcher, but that he shall have the most 

 efficient machine ditcher. The race is 

 no longer between the man with a ditcher 

 and the man with a shovel, but between 

 two men with ditchers. 



The Austin Ditch Machine with 

 Bank-Sloping Attachment is an all- 

 steel machine with working parts of spec- 

 ial alloy steel. It digs, side slopes and cleans the ditch in one operation. It has positively self- 

 cleaning buckets and cannot clog. It is mounted on caterpillar tractions which will not mire. It 

 travels by its own power, \Yi miles per hour. It digs in ordinary soil up to nine feet of ditch per 

 minute. Full details are given in Catalog No. 200. 



We specialize in ditching machinery 

 both for open ditches and pipe line work. 

 These various machines are known to 

 contractors as the "AUSTIN LINE" 

 manufactured by the F. C. AUSTIN 

 DRAINAGE EXCAVATOR COMPANY, 

 comprising the following: 



Drainage Excavator, Type A Side Hill Ditcher 

 Drainage Excavator, Type B Highway Ditcher 

 Diainage Excavator, Tjpe R Orange Peel Uitcher 

 Levee Builder Pipe Line Excavator 



Drag Line Excavator Special Wheel Ditcher 



Farm Tile Ditcher 



Austin Sewer and Waterworks Excavator 

 Austin Combination Sloping or Vertical 

 Bank Excavator 



F.C.Austin Drainage Excavator Co. 



RAILWAY EXCHANGE, CHICAGO, ILL. 



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