i: A hydraulic shovel with a bottom-dump bucket with a heapedbucket volume of 5 m3 is excavatingtough clay. The swing angle is 47 degrees and thejob efficiency is 0.86. Calculate the shovelproduction in BCM
ii: Estimate the time required to load 452m3 of gravel from a stockpile intotrucks using a clamshell having a heaped bucket capacity of 0.57m3. The estimated cycle time is 20s. Swing depth factor= 1.0. Job efficiency is estimated to be51min/h.
iii: A small hydraulic excavator will be used to dig a trench inhard clay. The trench size is 0.76 m wide by 1.52mdeep. The excavator bucket available is 0.76 m wide and has aheaped capacity of 0.51m3. The maximumdigging depth of the excavator is 4.90 m. The average swing angleis expected to be 75° and the job efficiency is 71%. Estimate the hourly trench production in BCM and inlinear meters of a trench.
