This highway received an improvement in 1926 which then used an elevating grader, 16 horses and a dump wagon.
Among other things, historians say, their communal labors and inventiveness created not only bumper crops of grain, fruit, flax and tobacco but also such handy devices as the clothespin, the flat broom, the circular saw, the washing machine, the metal pen point, the dump wagon (predecessor of the dump truck) and the screw propeller.
Construction required building up low spots with elevating graders and dump wagons operated by horses.
The elevating grader was to till unbroken soil and turn it towards a conveyor which lifted the dirt into the dump wagons.
"I found unsightly dumps that contained rusted bedsprings, tin cans, automobile seats & tires, iron wagon wheels, etc.
Look at how quickly and decisively families dumped station wagons for minivans in the 1980s, traded in their vans for truck-based SUVs in the 1990s and subsequently switched to car-based crossovers in the 2000s.
After arriving in the nation's capital, it was loaded onto a wagon, dumped out at the train station, loaded onto a luggage car, sent on to Philadelphia, unloaded onto another wagon, and, finally, delivered to 31 North Fifth Street.
They just dump out their toy wagon, we buy their stuff, maybe pick up a printer, and move on.
Working with two Mexican brothers and a young Mexican couple, he cut the grapes, collected them in tubs and periodically dumped them into a wagon pulled by a tractor.The lanes between vines are exactly as wide as the tractor, so the little group had to duck into and underneath the vines all day long.
The golf world is almost late to the band wagon in the "dump Trump" move that swelled up after his remarks on Mexico.
Once we got all set up, the harvester went to work, carefully harvesting one row at a time and then dumping the load in the wagon to be tested and weighed before transferred to the truck.
