Handbook of construction plant, its cost and efficiency (1918)
Dana, Richard Turner, 1876-1928 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., [etc., etc.] · leaf 442
gravel and macadam roads by uni-formly compacting them from the bottom up, and also to con-struct solid foundations for asphalt, concrete, brick and blockpavements. For further information on this type of constructionwe refer to Engineering and Contractingj June 9, 1909. The follovi^ing is a list… … Fig. 186. Building Asplialtic Gravel Street in Whittier, Cal. commonly used to tamp the earth around posts. It will com-pact any thickness from two to ten inches, but it is not usuallyeconomical to compact a greater thickness than four to sixinches at one operation. The material is put into…
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