The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1904-01-14

bunJtNt WI WNNSFn funA UuilAihH,
but hatins but h few days ngo
learned that not morbsthnn Ave or
six counties In the state have pur-
chased road machines. / feel it
my duty to call your attention to
the inestimate value OF these ma
chimes in road building in all
cases where crushed stone is used.
And it gives me pleasure to state
that in doing 81 am but making
some slight return for most valu-
able information gathered by my
own board, concerning these out
fits, at previous meetings of this
association.
To my mind about the most
dreary and unsatisfactory thing
in the world is new crushed
stone road built in the old way.
AS long as the weather and other
conditions permit, those who are
compelled to traverse it get off on
dirt road OF no road at all at
either side. When finally there is
no other alternative and travel is
forced upon the new road, the
stone is ratified about, some of it
getting clear off the travelled por-
tion, until finally by the cumula-
tive effect of everybody driving in
exactly the some place too deep
ruts are produced, with well de-
fined horse track between them.
Is not the picture true2 And is
not what / have described true
type of many thousands of miles
of so.called roads IN this state.
Those who have done the work
may fatter themselves that they
have built n road; they are mis-
taken, they have gone only half
way in building road; the other
half remains to be done by those
who use the road, at great incon-
venience and loss of time, supple
mented by the efforts of someone
who periodically refills the two
ruts and intervening horse track.
And in the meantime rubber tires
now so extensively used upon ve-
hicles, would not seem to be either
the most effective or the most e.
economical instruments for produc-
ing the attrition necessary to re-
duce these roads to smooth sur
face. In road building, as in
many other things, the observance
of two well worn proverbs will be
extremely useful first. "There is
no excellence without great la
bor." and that other one, SO con-
ducting to good housekeeping, to
good husbandry and TO thrift in
every vocation, "Whatever is
worth doing at all is worth doing
we'll"
can but briefly describe the
process, and to many of you j
know it needs no description.
For use in resurfacing our old
worn out pixies, heavy spikes are
placed in the ponderous wheel of
the machine and it is then run
over a section of the road few
times until we'll broken up, and
then heavy harrow is attached
and drawn over the section a few
times, until it looks for all the
world like fresh sown field of
oats. If necessary the grader is
also attached for the purpose of
leveling or of increasing the
crown. If there are chuck holes
or if drainage makes 1t desirable
that greater crown be given,
coarse mapping stone costing about
half the price of crushed stone Is
used, and the roller with spikes
set run over these. When the bed
has thus been prepared tn receive
it, course Of crushed stone is
applied eight inches thick in the
center. sloping to five at the side.
Then the grader is applied and
does its effective work in produce
ing level surface. On top of
the crashed stone two inch coal
of screenings is applied, and then
through a most effective water
organization, consisting of a steam
pupp and two sprinklers, the
whole is thoroughly saturated
with water, and then the section
is ready for the crowning work
of the great machine, which runs
over it until the whole section is
pressed into one solid mass of
concrete as smooth on top as the
city sheet asphalt pavement. |
From the beginning it is perfect
road, and within twenty-four
hours after it's completion you
may subject it to an eight ton
load without producing a percent
ible dent. The outfit cost us
aboat So, 500, but we regard it as
the best Investment ever made in