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Finishing Side Slopes

Equipment Operator Basic - Beginning construction equipment operators manual
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Figure  11-31.— “V”  ditch  construction. Figure 11-32.-Angle blade ditch cut. Figure  11-33.—Bench  cut. Figure  11-34 .-Sidehill  excavation. Figure  11-35.-Shallow  slope  sidehill  excavation. the ditch (fig. 11-31). Then turn the machine parallel to the line of the ditch, get the outside track on the window, and make a pass along the windrow. With the outside track elevated by the windrow, the blade cuts one side of a “V” type of ditch. Cut the other side the same way. An angle blade is preferable for digging a “V” type of  ditch  for  two  reasons:  (1)  you  can  side  cast  the windrow in a single pass and (2) the angled blade will side cast the material to the sides of the ditch as you travel along the windrow, as shown in figure 11-32. Sidehill Excavation A sidehill excavation can be started more easily if a small bench cut is made first, as shown in figure 11-33. When digging the sidehill, keep the inside (uphill) surface  slightly  lower  to  gain  greater  tractor  stability (fig. 11-34). Tilting the blade produces this type of cut. 11-16







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