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2. Box blade - Wikipedia

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   Three point road graders can be viewed as a specific type of box blade, and are used to grade and maintain dirt and gravel roads. They usually have 2 parallel angled cutting edges, and long, low sidepieces. Manufacturers include DoMor Equipment Dura-Grader, Road Boss, and RoadRunner.

3. Cut (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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   Road cutting. In civil engineering, a cut or cutting is where soil or rock from a relative rise is removed. Cuts are typically used in road, rail, and canal construction to reduce a route's length and grade. Cut and fill construction uses the spoils from cuts to fill in defiles to create straight routes at steady grades cost-effectively.

4. 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.

5. Wheel tractor-scraper - Wikipedia

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   The pan has a tapered horizontal front cutting edge that cuts into the soil like a carpenter's plane or cheese slicer and fills the hopper which has a movable ejection system. The horsepower of the machine, depth of the cut, type of material, and slope of the cut area affect how quickly the pan is filled.

6. Galion Iron Works - Wikipedia

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   The motor grader line received the first power-shift transmission, which was a major advance, in 1955. Called the Galion Grade-O-Matic drive, it utilized a torque converter, output shaft governor and power-shift transmission, providing simple two-lever control of speed and direction. The Galion T-700 garnered the world's largest grader title in ...

7. Best cutting-edge health and fitness tech from CES 2025 - AOL

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   These innovative earbuds use clinical-grade EEG technology to precisely assess sleep stages and depth, providing unprecedented insights into a user's nocturnal experience. ... Best cutting-edge ...

8. Here Are the Biggest 401(k) Mistakes Each Generation Is Making

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   Image source: Getty Images. Baby boomers: Not embracing the Roth 401(k) Baby boomers saw the first 401(k)s in 1978, and most have stuck with these traditional plans to the present day.

9. Embankment (earthworks) - Wikipedia

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   A road, railway line, or canal is normally raised onto an embankment made of compacted soil (typically clay or rock-based) to avoid a change in level required by the terrain, the alternatives being either to have an unacceptable change in level or detour to follow a contour.