Question: 5 . a 4 0 - ton crane with a 3 - cubic - yard clamshell bucket to excavate the sand out of the bottom

5. a 40-ton crane with a 3-cubic-yard clamshell bucket to excavate the sand out of the bottom of a river channel to be used in a concrete plant. The fill factor of dredging sand with the bucket is 1.20. The contractor will use dump trucks to haul the sand off-site to the concrete plant and estimates that the clamshell will operate at an efficiency of about 52 minutes per hour. The estimated cycle time of the clamshell is 25 seconds. Please calculate what the estimated production rate is for the clamshell in cubic yards per hour.
5 . a 4 0 - ton crane with a 3 - cubic - yard

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