Show SHELL CLAM BUCKET A largo large lar o grab rab bucket of tho the shell clamshell type having ha a n. capacity of seven seten and a half cubic yards was aS recently installed at Joliet TIt Ill in connection with a can cau cantilever cr coaling bridge to reclaim coal I from stock piles and to feed it through hoppers to an extensive c system stem of belt conveyors The bucket will handle hando five to six tons per load lond according to the tho position in which it is landed o on tho the coal Although the bucket i is hu huge e and the amount o 01 of coal carried enormous the power required too to o operate rate the tho ho bridge is if comparatively small duo to tho the fact that the bucket i is balanced by counter weights ei |