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Austin Drainage Excavator Type R 



will handle hard digging 

 as well as soft ground 

 work. Will dig sloping- 

 side ditches to 8 ft. depth, 

 any top width up to 24 

 feet. By making an ad- 

 ditional cut from the op- 

 posite bank, a bottom 

 width of 16 ft., 8 ft. deep 

 and 32 ft. top may be se- 

 cured. Distributes spoil 

 to 60 ft. maximum fin- 

 ishes it for roadbed or 

 levee. 



Type R Austin Drainage Excavator 



This machine can be furnished with an arm as shown in illustration; 

 in combination with a bank sloping attachment; or in combination with an 

 arm for the excavation of trenches for pipe lines, up to 3 ft. wide and 12 ft. 

 deep. In the first case the machine travels on one side of the ditch and 

 parallel to it in the second and third ahead of the trench. 



All steel caterpillar traction runs back or forward and around sharp 

 curves two man crew. 



Every Type of 



Drainage or 

 Irrigation Ditch 



is provided for by a type of 

 Austin Drainage Excavator. 



Every Austin Excavator 



except the farm tile ditcher 

 digs a ditch with sloping sides 



Type A machine digging ditch with 8 foot bottom, 1>$ to I slopes. 10 feet deep, Complete in On6 Operation. 

 with beam of 8 feet 



SEND FOR CATALOGUE "SR" 



F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Company 



Improved 



Agents Wanted in Open Territory 



Railway Exchange, Chicago, 111. 



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