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  2. Pavement milling - Wikipedia

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    Pavement milling (cold planing, asphalt milling, or profiling) is the process of removing at least part of the surface of a paved area such as a road, bridge, or parking lot. Milling removes anywhere from just enough thickness to level and smooth the surface to a full depth removal.

  3. Mighty Machines - Wikipedia

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    Kurt, a skid steer shovels it up. You also get to see how metal is recycled in a junk yard, and how asphalt to make a road can be recycled too. At the Junk Yard, the operations are explained by Greg, a grapple truck, at the road repair site, Chewy, a pavement profiler, slimy, an asphalt paver, and roller,an asphalt roller work together.

  4. Road roller - Wikipedia

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    Caterpillar soil compactor equipped with padfoot drum, being used to compact the ground before placing concrete Antique "Kemna" steamroller. A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller [1]) is a compactor-type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations. [1]

  5. Rut (roads) - Wikipedia

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    A rut is a depression or groove worn into a road or path by the travel of wheels or skis. Ruts can be formed by wear, as from studded snow tires common in cold climate areas, or they can form through the deformation of the asphalt concrete, pavement or subbase material. In modern roads the main cause is heavily loaded trucks.

  6. Wheel tractor-scraper - Wikipedia

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    Elevating scraper: self-loading as it uses an elevator to load material; requires no push-cat. Tandem scrapers: separate tractor and scraper engines provide greater power, and better traction in steep or slippery areas; Tandem Push-Pull: concentrates the combined horsepower of two such machines onto one cutting edge.

  7. Terex THS15 Motorscraper - Wikipedia

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    The Terex THS15 Motorscraper was a concept machine scraper displayed for the first time at Minexpo 2000.This machine features some unusual design concepts, including an adjustable cutting edge on the bowl to reduce friction when loading.

  8. Euclid Trucks - Wikipedia

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    Euclid Road Machinery became a producer of fast, off-road earthmoving haulers. Euclid produced its first specially-designed, 7-yard (6.4 m)-long, off-road dump truck, the Model 1Z, in January 1934. It was powered by a 100 horsepower (75 kW) Waukesha gasoline engine , and used an extremely heavy-duty, Euclid rear axle , fitted with a new 17.5 x ...

  9. 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.