Engineering and Contracting . wheels and handles were taken from ascrapped horse-mower, and the other parts were forgedin the shop. The plow worked by two men, one holding the han-dles, and one particularly husky chap pulling with a rope,removed a neat strip of sod of uniform width, for thefollowing cost: September 6, 1916V o 1. X L \ I. N o. 1 0 COST OF EDGING 38,000 LIX. FT. OF of plow— Labor $ Materials (.not including; old parts) $ J-aljor— Edging, 72 hr. at 20 ct Cleaning up and removing sod. 63 hr. at 20 ct $ Total cost per 1,000 lin. ft., S3
Engineering and Contracting . wheels and handles were taken from ascrapped horse-mower, and the other parts were forgedin the shop. The plow worked by two men, one holding the han-dles, and one particularly husky chap pulling with a rope,removed a neat strip of sod of uniform width, for thefollowing cost: September 6, 1916V o 1. X L \ I. N o. 1 0 COST OF EDGING 38,000 LIX. FT. OF of plow— Labor $ Materials (.not including; old parts) $ J-aljor— Edging, 72 hr. at 20 ct Cleaning up and removing sod. 63 hr. at 20 ct $ Total cost per 1,000 lin. ft., S3 ct. The sod had to be removed a considerable distance inwheelbarrows as the adjoining property is privatelyowned. CONCRETE MIXER USED FOR ROLLINGSUB-GRADE. In connection with some paving work at Glenwood, la.,the contractor, Mr. Samuel Friedman, Keeline BIdg.,Omaha, Neb., used his paving mixer for rolling the sub-grade. The accompanying illustration shows the mixeroperating as a roller. One-half inch steel tires, 30 Concrete Mixer With Roller Wheels, Compacting Subgrade. diameter, butt welded, and 24 in. length, were slippedover the regular mixer wheels, and the outer half of eachtire filled with cement and sand mixed in the propor-tions of 1 to 2. The entire cost was approximately $ Friedman writes that an excellent compression wasobtained with the rolls. The mixer was a Chain Beltpaver, manufactured bv the Chain Belt Co., Milwaukee,Wis. MOTOR TRUCK, SCARIFIER AND ROAD GRAD-ERS ON GRAVEL ROAD MAINTENANCE. The maintenance of 450 miles of gravel roads in Mont-gomery County, Alabama, is under the direction of H. Edwards, County Engineer, who has effectedremarkable reductions in maintenance costs. The countynow has five White trucks (5-ton, 6-cylinder), a fleet ofTroy reversible trailer wagons and a fleet of Road King,Russell. Western and Ohio Reversible road graders. A motor truck with three road machines covers -30 milesa day at the following cost per d
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