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2. Wheel tractor-scraper - Wikipedia

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   A twin engined Terex TS-14b scraper in Hudson, Ohio. In civil engineering, a wheel tractor-scraper (also known as a land scraper, land leveler or tournapull) is a type of heavy equipment used for earthmoving.

3. Roller (agricultural tool) - Wikipedia

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   The roller is an agricultural tool used for flattening land or breaking up large clumps of soil, especially after ploughing or disc harrowing. Typically, rollers are pulled by tractors or, prior to mechanisation, a team of animals such as horses or oxen. As well as for agricultural purposes, rollers are used on cricket pitches and residential ...

4. Harrow (tool) - Wikipedia

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   The disk harrow is used first to slice up the large clods left by the mould-board plough, followed by the spring-tooth harrow. To save time and fuel they may be pulled by one tractor; the disk hitched to the tractor, and the spring-tooth hitched to, and directly behind, the disk. The result is a smooth field with powdery dirt at the surface.

5. Tillage - Wikipedia

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   Soon after 1900, the farm tractor was introduced, which made modern large-scale agriculture possible. However, the destruction of the prairie grasses and tillage of the fertile topsoil of the American Midwest caused the Dust Bowl , in which the soil was blown away and stirred up into dust storms that blackened the sky.

6. Loader (equipment) - Wikipedia

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   John Deere Front end loaders CAD model tracing of a tractor mounted loader mechanism CAD model tracing of a skid loader mechanism. A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery (such as a dump truck, conveyor belt, feed-hopper, or railroad car).

7. Soil compaction - Wikipedia

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   A 10 tonne excavator is here equipped with a narrow sheepsfoot roller to compact the fill over newly placed sewer pipe, forming a stable support for a new road surface. A compactor / roller fitted with a sheepsfoot drum, operated by U.S. Navy Seabees Vibrating roller with plain drum as used for compacting asphalt and granular soils Vibratory ...