TABLE 11.--PRODUCTION STANDARDS FOR HANDLING 100- AND 50-POUND BURLAP BAGS
 AND 50-POUND PAPER BAGS FROM THE PACKING LINE TO THE LOAD FOR
 PACKINGHOUSES LOADING TRUCKS AND RAIL CARS.


 Burlap Bags 50-pound
 Paper Bags
 100-pound bags 50-pound bags

 Man Out- Man Out- Man Output
 Job minutes put minutes put minutes per
 per per per per per man
 hundred- man hundred- man bag hour
 weighta hour weighta hour

 minutes cwt. minutes cwt. minutes bags

Hand truck method:

 Set bag on hand
 truck .2265 265 .3871 155 b b
 Hand truck .5641 106 .8369 72 .5311 113
 Load from hand
 trucks .2636 228 .4356 138 .1661 361

Conveyor method:

 Load from conveyor ,4077 147 .6116 98 .3212 187


 alncludes an allowance for nonwork time.

 bin packinghouses handling paper bags, this job was combined with
other work.

 cAssumes distance of 100 feet between packing and loading areas.


almost always done. Loaded rail cars are generally moved away only once

daily, which means that long loading platforms are required along rail

sidings. The greater the number of cars loaded daily, the longer the hand

trucking distance. The average production standard determined for hand

trucking 100-pound burlap bags was 106 bags per hour. This is about 83 per-

cent of the standard for hand trucking to.motor trucks only.