LASER-GUIDED GRADER WORKS 50% FASTER

The author reports how with a laser providing an elevation reference and a detector mounted on a grader, made if possible to eliminate stakes and to grade 100 acres for a pond bottom at 300,000 sq ft per day to a plus or minus 1/4 inch accuracy.

• Corporate Authors:

  McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

  330 West 42nd Street
  New York, NY  United States  10036
• Authors:
  • Parkinson, G
• Publication Date: 1976-11

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 64
• Serial:
  • Construction Methods and Equipment
  • Volume: 58
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill, Incorporated

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Altitude; Construction equipment; Economic efficiency; Graders; Grading (Earthwork); Lasers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Elevation; Grading
• Subject Areas: Construction; Economics; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00152730
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM