craneman

In addition to the engineer, there was a craneman, who handled the dumping, two coal stokers, and a “move-up” crew of six whose job it was to level the ground and place the track so that the shovel could be advanced as it worked, always keeping its nose to the bank.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

In addition to the engineer, there was a craneman, who handled the dumping, two coal stokers, and a “move-up” crew of six whose job it was to level the ground and place the track so that the shovel could be advanced as it worked, always keeping its nose to the bank.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

And that happened on October 28, 1953, when we got the first application from a black for an active craneman, which was a so-called white job.

Oral History Interview with Carlee Drye, April 2, 1980. Interview H-0005. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1980

The crew required for its operation consists of 1 engineer, 1 fireman, 1 craneman, and 4 to 5 pit men to tend jacks, move track, etc.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 484, April 11, 1885 Various

And as Samms walked toward the group a craneman dropped a couple of tons of steel plate, from a height of eight or ten feet, upon the floor directly behind him.

First Lensman Smith, E. E. 1950

Each was run by two white Americans, or at least what would prove such when they reached the shower-bath in their quarters -- the craneman far out on the shovel arm, the engineer within the machine itself with a labyrinth of levers demanding his unbroken attention.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

There was a craneman in Bas Obispo "cut" whose testimony was wanted.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

I climbed up into the quivering monster itself to interrupt the engineer at his levers, to shout at the craneman on his beam.

Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Harry Alverson Franck 1921

The craneman looked down from his giant machine, which could lift a burning plane and toss it into the sea, and shouted, "Maybe they're planning to spend the night at some air force field in Korea.

The Bridges at Toko-Ri Michener, James 1953