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2. Grader - Wikipedia

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   A grader, also commonly referred to as a road grader, motor grader, or simply blade, is a form of heavy equipment with a long blade used to create a flat surface during grading. Although the earliest models were towed behind horses, and later tractors , most modern graders are self-propelled and thus technically "motor graders".

3. King road drag - Wikipedia

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   David Ward King, Inventor of the King Road Drag Contemporary Drawing of the King Road Drag Road Drag Patent. The King road drag (also known as the Missouri road drag and the split log road drag) was a simple form of a road grader implemented for grading dirt road. It revolutionized the maintenance of dirt roads in the early 1900s.

4. Galion Iron Works - Wikipedia

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   The Galion Iron Works Company of Galion, Ohio, was founded by David Charles Boyd and his three brothers in 1907.In its early years, the Galion produced a wide range of road-building and other construction equipment, such as drag scrapers, plows, wagons, stone unloaders, rock crushers, and a variety of other "experimental machines".

5. Grading (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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   Section through railway track and foundation showing the sub-grade. Grading in civil engineering and landscape architectural construction is the work of ensuring a level base, or one with a specified slope, [1] for a construction work such as a foundation, the base course for a road or a railway, or landscape and garden improvements, or surface drainage.

6. Earthworks (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   Typical earthworks include road construction, railway beds, causeways, dams, levees, canals, and berms. Other common earthworks are land grading to reconfigure the topography of a site, or to stabilize slopes. Geofoam is a new lightweight earthworks technique used to build a bridge overpass on weak soil near Montreal.

7. Fresno scraper - Wikipedia

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   This design was so revolutionary and economical that it influenced the design of modern bulldozer blades and earth movers.. Between 1884 and 1910, thousands of Fresno scrapers were produced at the Fresno Agricultural Works, which had been formed by Porteous and used in agriculture, land leveling, road and railroad grading, and the construction industry.

8. CMI Roadbuilding - Wikipedia

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   Using the auger with cutting teeth, it could fine grade the road bed. Base Reclaimer. Using the auger and a conveyor belt to pick up excess material and deposit it in a truck. Asphalt Paver. Using the auger and screed to place and level asphalt on the road. Concrete Slip for paving. Using the auger and screed to place and form a concrete slab.

9. J.D. Adams & Company - Wikipedia

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   Adams Leaning Wheel grader no.21, outside the original offices the Nungarin roadboard 1910 company catalog, image of Road King No. 12. J.D. Adams & Company was founded in 1885 by Joseph D Adams who invented the first leaning-wheel pull grader and was based in Indianapolis. The company manufactured construction machinery including sheepsfoot ...