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1912 Article-Buffalo Pitts Co., Steam Road Trains |
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American Motorist V4 Oct 1912 pg 807 |
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THOROUGH compacting is one of the essential elements in making any kind of a road and the more thoroughly the compacting is done, the better and more nearly permanent the roadway will be.
In modern highway work most specifications call for the rolling of the subgrade until it is hard and firm, and until all soft places may have been discovered and refilled with firm earth. Then each course of stone is put in place and rolled separately and afterward the whole mass is rolled until the roller fails to make an impression.
Much care is necessary in the selection of a road roller which will do the work properly. Whether the purchase of a road roller be by a contractor or by a municipality, care must be exercised to secure a roller which will work on the necessary grades and which will perform the service required.
Among the very widely known steam rollers is the Buffalo Pitts Roller, manufactured by the Buffalo Steam Roller Company of Buffalo, New York. This company makes practically all kinds and sizes of rollers; rollers for macadam roads, asphalt rollers, tandem rollers, traction engine rollers, and rollers of all types and sizes ranging in weight from two and onehalf tons to twenty tons.
The "Buffalo Pitts" roller has always given satisfaction. Hardly a highway official who has ever used a "Buffalo-Pitts" could be induced to change for anything else, because the "Buffalo Pitts" fills the bill.
A special feature of Buffalo Pitts rollers is their great pulling power, which renders them available for such work as hauling road materials, moving stone crushing plants and operating hot oilers as well as for rolling roads.
Many contractors are using them today
for hauling their crushed stone and paving blocks as they find them more reliable for this purpose than auto trucks or hauling engines, and at the same time they are available for rolling whenever needed.
The use of the "Buffalo Pitts" roller is not confined to the United States by any means. Numbers of them have been used in Canada; several were sent to Mexico, and a report recently came from the interior of Honduras, in Central America, that two "Buffalo Pitts" road rollers were in use in the construction of a road from Tegucigalpa to the coast. A recent report for Rio Janiero mentioned a "BuffaloPitts" asphalt roller as being in use in that city in street improvement.
The test of every machine, road roller, or any other, is in its always being ready for use and always doing its work well. These are the elements which have given the "Buffalo Pitts" machine its splendid reputation. |
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1912 Buffalo Pitts Co., Steam Road Train
1912 Buffalo Pitts Co., Steam Road Train
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