Scott and Gordy, I was not clear the new cutting edges for ..dragging roads.. were cut like that with a torch. Call it what you want but this is how it is done in Northeast Kansas where I grew up. My dad ran the township machine off and on between the 60s up until he passed in 2010. My uncle still runs the grader, now it is couple year old JD machine, I am not sure what the width of the machines blade is but I know it has an extension piece on it. If they plan to rebuild a section of road which usually means digging out the ditches and raising the road bed they remove the dragging edges and put on straight sharp blades. In that area there are ..county.. gravel roads as well. These are major thoroughfares that in many cases went the complete 36 miles across the county or connected to the county blacktop roads. The county maintains those, while as I mentioned my father maintained the 6 square miles of our township. The county roads were wider so generally two vehicles could meet on them and basically maintain their speed. Most township roads were wide enough for two vehicles to pass but they were narrow enough that the vehicles would slow considerably and get more off the side of the normally traveled road. Since the county roads were wider to be able to ..drag.. the road moving the gravel ridge from one side to the other they had to maintain far less angle on the blade. This would encourage the road grader to start bouncing if they traveled to fast with the machine, essentially creating a wavy or wash board surface right after they operator ..maintained.. the road. Of course it was not all like that but often you could tell where the road had a good level spot with no side roads or swags the operator would try speeding up the machine and then the bouncing would start and you would have a 100 foot of freshly graded road with wash boards. My father was always at odds with the county Forman trying to convince them to maintain the roads in 3 passes instead of two so the blade could be angled more. But oh no, ..this is how we have done it for years and it would take to much extra time and would cost to much to change to that method. So my father would refer to them as ..tight bladers.. or ..flat bladers.. an so it went.
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