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Review and Final Drive

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What happens here

After multiple passes and adjustments, the difficult corner is successfully widened and smoothed. The video shows the final appearance of the road, now with a proper 'shed crown' (meaning it follows the natural topography for drainage without creating ditches, as explained by the presenter). The operator drives back along the entire length of the newly graded road, demonstrating its improved smoothness and drivability. The difference in ride comfort and road quality is visibly and audibly apparent.

Goal: Observe the completed road grading and enjoy the improved drivability.

Tools and materials

  • Newly Graded Road N/A — The finished product of the grading process
  • Pickup Truck Ford F-150 — To demonstrate the improved drivability of the road

What they say

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foreign [Music] you guys let's go back down the exact same road that we originally came in and let's see how well this worked now all right see you man notice that it's not Center crowd meaning that it's humped in the middle and goes down on both sides this is called shed Chrome that's what I call it and it more follows the Topography of the land and is designed to not allow water to sit on top of the road surface if I Center Crown some areas of the road I would create a ditch instead I just want everything to flow off and not sit on the surface that I want to drive on so that's what I call the shed crop you guys tell me was that smoother I wasn't along for the first ride-along Zach went and filmed this first shot and I was over here working so if you guys want to see a very precise video on crowning let me know because we'll head back to Shangri-La Lodge and we can do a whole video just on crowning a road just on setting that crown but for this one there's no way I would have been able to drive through this driveway at this speed ever I would have rattled rattle canned my truck apart long ago any final words Michael roadrunnerblade.com there you go my final words are thanks for coming along for the ride today hope you enjoyed it hope you found a peaceful relaxing entertaining educating and all of those things combined that's all we got for you on this one God bless you guys and

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