Abstract: A method and apparatus for measuring the quantity of material delivered per cycle by a shovel loader having a bucket (22) that is moved between loaded and unloading positions. During the movement of the bucket in either direction between said positions, determinations are made of the location of the bucket with respect to two spaced points (27) and (17) on the structure (15) supporting the bucket. At the same time determinations are made as to the strain at a particular location in the support structure (15), that strain being related to total weight of the bucket and its contents. The bucket position determinations and the strain determinations are each provided as inputs to a processor programmed to calculate therefrom the weight of the bucket and contents, when loaded and unloaded, to thereby provide the weight of material delivered.

Abstract: An apparatus for determining the profile of a longitudinal portion of an elongate member such as a railway rail comprising a base frame (1), an arm (6) mounted on said base frame for privotal movement relative thereto about a fixed axis (21), the base frame being capable of being releasably secured to the elongate member with the pivot axis of the arm in a plane substantially parallel to the direction of elongation of the elongate member and inclined to said direction of elongation. The arm (6) has or is adapted to have secured thereto a ranging device (3) having a ranging line (22) so that when the ranging device is fitted said ranging line (22) intersects the pivot axis (21) of the arm within the portion (42) of the elongate member that the profile is to be determined.