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  2. Earthworks (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Heavy construction equipment is usually used due to the amounts of material to be moved — up to millions of cubic metres. Earthwork construction was revolutionized by the development of the scraper and other earth-moving machines such as the loader, the dump truck, the grader, the bulldozer, the backhoe, and the dragline excavator.

  3. Vulcan Materials Company - Wikipedia

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    Vulcan is the largest producer of construction materials, primarily gravel, crushed stone, and sand, and employs approximately 12,000 people at over 400 facilities. Vulcan serves 22 states, the District of Columbia , Mexico , Canada , Bahamas and the U.S. Virgin Islands .

  4. Wheel tractor-scraper - Wikipedia

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    The scraper is a large piece of equipment which is used in mining, construction, agriculture and other earthmoving applications. The rear part has a vertically moveable hopper (also known as the bowl) with a sharp horizontal front edge. The hopper can be hydraulically lowered and raised.

  5. Texas land survey system - Wikipedia

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    "A league and a labor" (4,605.5 acres; 18.638 km 2) was a common first land grant [4] and consisted of a league of land away from the river plus one extra labor of good riparian (river-situated) land. A headright of this much land was granted to "all persons [heads of families] except Africans and their descendants and Indians living in Texas ...

  6. Loader (equipment) - Wikipedia

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    John Deere Front end loaders CAD model tracing of a tractor mounted loader mechanism CAD model tracing of a skid loader mechanism. A loader is a heavy equipment machine used in construction to move or load materials such as soil, rock, sand, demolition debris, etc. into or onto another type of machinery (such as a dump truck, conveyor belt, feed-hopper, or railroad car).

  7. Pioneer to Shut Brady Sand Mines, Alter Supply to West Texas

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    Pioneer Natural's (PXD) to shut operations at the sand mine in Brady by the first quarter of 2019. Also, the company will shift to 100% West Texas sand by May 2019.

  8. Construction aggregate - Wikipedia

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    Construction aggregate, or simply aggregate, is a broad category of coarse- to medium-grained particulate material used in construction. Traditionally, it includes natural materials such as sand, gravel, crushed stone. As with other types of aggregates, it is a component of composite materials, particularly concrete and asphalt.

  9. What are your rights as a property owner in Texas? Tax ... - AOL

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