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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: front slope of 1 in 3, and rear slope of I in 4. Material was borrowed from both sides for a distance of 100 ft. from the toe of the slope; and buck scrapers (see Chapter VII.) drawn by four horses were used to move the earth which was notrolled. A buck scraper drifted or pushed to place about 90 cu. yds. a day. The soil was well plowed before the fill was placed upon it, to insure a good bond. We see from the foregoing that there are several noteworthy points of difference between Mr. Specht's work and that of Mr. Morris above given. In the first place, Sutter County, California, is a rainless district in summer. Secondly, the material was taken from the bed of a river and such material is always more dense than ordinary, due to the puddling action at times of high water. Thirdly, no wheeled vehicles passed over the fill during construction, whereas a large quantity of loose earth was pushed into place with the long buck scrapers. These factors, we believe, combined to make an unusually favorable condition for a swelling of earth when taken from cut to fill. We would especially emphasize the fact that sandy earth in the bottom of overflowed river val- ( leys, and earth approaching hardpan in certain glacial deposits is very dense. Such earth is quite; certain to occupy more sjace in fill than it did in cut, unless thoroughly rolled or rammed. Mr. P. J. Flynn, in a paper following that of Mr. Specht in the same volume of transactions (see Eng. News, May 1 and 8, 1886), collected a great array of data on earth swelling and shrinking; and reasoning erroneously by combining the shrinkage of the Morris embankments with the swelling of the Specht embankments, he reached the remarkable conclusion that a contractor should always be made to set his fill stakes 1/6, or 17%, hi...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217202619
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 62
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217202616
  • Publisher Date: 09 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 127 gr


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