THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLE
HIGHWAYS BY “MASS CONSTRUCTION.”
Massive Machinery Instead of Gangs.
[Special Report to the Hongkong Telegraph.] [By Israel Klein.]
This is how a modern concrete highway is built. From the concrete mixer at right, past the Anishing machine and the road joint machine behind, the work goes so fast that 1600 feet of
highway can be built in a day.
lovces along the Mississippi, while the smaller one has dug out moun- tain sides to make way for new ronds.
It is said that it takes one husky labourer a whole day to move only
Cleveland, Jan. 21st-This auto-pavement can be laid with the motive age has made highway same caso that a carpet in put building as much a part of mas down in your home. production is the automobilej
The machinery. for such work itgolf.
runs the entire gamut of construc- No better sign of this develoption from pioneering to finishing. mont can be noticed than that pre Massive steam shovels, excavators 1260 16 cuble yards of earth 150 sented at the annual exposition of the American Road Builders' As and ditch diggers were exhibited sociation in Cleveland. Machinery to show how one machine can do has replaced man-power, speed the work of dozens of men in a and efficiency are the watchwords short time. · and muss construction is tha goal.
A casual review of the road show here reveals how modern highways are built. A few men to take care and guide the ma- chinery, and an entire concrete
World War veterans -Tamambar Now a merely a matter of put- Lingatialaiyfir Slide Fer
ing out the ground with steal pointed buckets on a bolt. Rodi Cradles Replace Convictal
The trucks that romore this earth areas manolsó as the other machinery. One truck has BİK Brdad wheels along the rear bede so that no kind of göff earth ban keep it from Waging itself out.
With the road cut out, the ny ing of asphalt driednereto is swift! And easy. For each type of road there are massive rock crushers and graders that prepare the foun dation to so short a time it would make a thousand convicts dizzy.
The greatest progress has been shown in the construction of con'r creta roads. Here were shown massive arrangements of Atonl called "agrabatohers," which weigh or measure out the proper batches for rond making. These, complicated, and heavy as they are, are portablo to the extent of setting them up at railroad aidings near the new, job,
All in One Operation. From this, trucks move the batches to massive concrete mix- ers, where cement and water are mixed with the stone and and. These mixers movs slowly ahead pa they ny the concrete over the hew rondbed. Right behind comes the rond 'finisher, a unique ma chine that emootia'the roadbed at the way across and moves along. with the work.
After the fluisher, several models. of which were on exbibit, conies the zond Jolt machine' which cute deep joints along the middle of the fresh road and across at regu lar intervals, and then pours "hot tar into these joints to prevent cracking of the concrete with the changes of the weather,
Such a machino, operated by two or three men, eliminates. further pintenance of concrete roads and saves 50 per cent. In cost of its construction, It is said.
feet. The levee excavator, taking
Dragging bohind is a bridge ar 3-yard bits at one time, moves rangement on which a man 226 yards of earth in an hour. It amboths the 'joints.***** weighs 230,000 pounds, yet it is so
All this and other auxilliary ma constructed that it can be disas-chines at this road show presented sembled and loaded in a day far
a dow phase to road construction. removal.
Not only are they designed for While the road in being exen-rapid work, but they are built to its smaller brother had to be vated, ditch diggers alongside assuage the increasingly drastic shown at this exhibit and that open five to six-foot sluicen for demanda put upon road builders wasn't so small either. The large laying of pipes. Nothing like the by modern traffe. one is used in the construction of felow, back-breaking work that the
Lovees Laid Down Quickly.
One excavator was so large that
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