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  2. Concrete sleeper - Wikipedia

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    Here the sleepers are extra heavy, about 250 kg, and may include gauge widening with transitional gauge widening. [10] Concrete sleepers for turnouts must be individually custom designed for the location. They are much longer than normal sleepers, have gaps for switch motors, and are generally made by a small number of specialist manufacturers ...

  3. Night soil - Wikipedia

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    Another definition is "untreated excreta transported without water (e.g. via containers or buckets)". [1] Night soil was produced as a result of a sanitation system in areas without sewer systems or septic tanks. In this system of waste management, human feces are collected without dilution in water.

  4. Wood preservation - Wikipedia

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    Untreated southern pine posts lasted 2 years in this test site." [ 9 ] The AWPA M4 Standard for the care of preservative-treated wood products, reads, "The appropriateness of the preservation system for field treatment shall be determined by the type of preservative originally used to protect the product and the availability of a field ...

  5. Railroad tie - Wikipedia

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    A railroad tie, crosstie (American English), railway tie (Canadian English) or railway sleeper (Australian and British English) is a rectangular support for the rails in railroad tracks. Generally laid perpendicular to the rails, ties transfer loads to the track ballast and subgrade , hold the rails upright and keep them spaced to the correct ...

  6. Garden fork - Wikipedia

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    A garden fork, spading fork, or digging fork (in the past also an asparagus fork, [1] the same name as a very different utensil) is a gardening implement, with a handle and a square-shouldered head featuring several (usually four) short, sturdy tines.

  7. Cultivator - Wikipedia

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    Small tilling equipment, used in small gardens such as household gardens and small commercial gardens, can provide both primary and secondary tillage. For example, a rotary tiller does both the "plowing" and the "harrowing", preparing a smooth, loose seedbed. It does not provide the row-wise weed control that cultivator teeth would.

  8. The EPA said more tunnels would collapse as the equipment deteriorated. Hanford's 11,000 workers are still at risk. Workers at the tank farms on the Hanford Site measure for radiation and the ...

  9. Category:Gardening tools - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Gardening tools" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Garden tool; A.