Forest Service Road Maintenance Series: Smoothing and Reshaping the Traveled Way

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  • Forest Service Road Maintenance Series: Smoothing and Reshaping the Traveled Way - USDA Forest Service 2002 - Video VH-416D - Provides detailed step by step processes for smoothing and reshaping crowned, insloped and outsloped roads and transition sections. Stresses that by facilitating proper water drainage, a well-maintained traveled way protects the road, the driver, and the environment.

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  • @farkasalex-hm7vm
    @farkasalex-hm7vm 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for good info! Greetings from Romania!🫡🤝🤝🤝

  • @eh4447
    @eh4447 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great video on the techniques of grading a country dirt road.

  • @paininthe10
    @paininthe10 12 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This is a great video on explaining the different techniques for gravle road maintenance. I've yet to come across a video so informative and explanatory. Great job !

    • @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679
      @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree. My dirt motorcycle traversed 60 miles
      over NFS roads on one day and I passed just
      8 people. One of which was grading the road
      using NFS maintenance machinery. Waved
      at the operator and she blew me a kiss.

  • @dicktaug4773
    @dicktaug4773 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ah! The wonder of the way-back machine. Those were the days! Thirteen years ago. No more road maintenance crews anymore. FS/BLM road maintenance today consists of planting "road closed" signs. If the road is closed, you don't have to maintain it. What little maintenance done today is contracted by office pencil pushers to the lowest bidder.

    • @gq-cw6xi
      @gq-cw6xi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Would you have them contracted to the highest bidder?... more money paid doesnt always mean a better product.

  • @rp1645
    @rp1645 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for grading tech. For gravel roadways
    Always wondered why you fold the moldboard forward. Those round bits on the bottom of the blade must be great for potholes.

  • @user-eo5vg5fn8b
    @user-eo5vg5fn8b 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    very very good

  • @richardrivera5117
    @richardrivera5117 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool😊✊👍

  • @jamesloy7322
    @jamesloy7322 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Alex Trebek?

  • @gq-cw6xi
    @gq-cw6xi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "Smoothing"... would that be like grading...wow smoothing

  • @westcoaster3763
    @westcoaster3763 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And what would the forest service know about road maintenence, they don't do any

  • @archuka1
    @archuka1 10 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice material -- most of the roads in Wyoming are rock or decomposed granite -- couple weeks later tthe road is washboarding again !!

    • @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679
      @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'm a member of the Armpit Grotto based in Laramie
      with road experience between Montana and the Salish
      Sea regions also. Using a Suzuki DR650SE. Single-
      track after I've shoveled clearance over a slide or
      around a collapsed culvert. Also carry a timber saw
      because trees also fall on your exit roads. Otherwise
      use the tools to assist other outdoor recreation.

  • @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679
    @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    While I commend the NFS road maintenance
    I'm not ignoring the infrastructure issues. My
    DR650SE is rigged to carry a timber saw, "D"-
    handle shovel, and a tool repair kit. When a
    tree fall happens and I need the road to exit
    a National Forest I'm going to cut vehicle
    clearance. I've shoveled vehicle clearance
    to exit National Forest after a slide occurs.
    My Dunlop 606 knobby is excellent over
    most rubble after the shovel has levered
    larger rocks aside. I replace missing nuts
    and lock-washers to secure loose NFS signs.
    But my purpose in using NFS roads is to
    locate and explore karst (nss@caves.org).

  • @69adrummer
    @69adrummer 10 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Too bad the Forest Service hires so few seasonal folks anymore! What a waste for the young people of today to not learn the valuable lessons only working in and for the environment can bring! Our fathers and grandfathers had the best! Where men went out and did things that were noble and right and worked hard! Now it's all computers and GIS and the like! No more pack strings and backcountry adventures.

    • @trevordilley4504
      @trevordilley4504 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      gosh I couldn't agree more. there are very few that are very willing to do the exact work required, but the forest service is just a lot less willing/funded to be able to do so...

    • @michaelgriffiths7503
      @michaelgriffiths7503 8 ปีที่แล้ว

      I retired last year from the White River NF road crew. I was lucky.

    • @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679
      @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Personally, I like my National Forest Service
      dirt motorcycling assisted by all genders in
      uniforms doing salary work. I won't cherry-
      pick one gender and urge advancement on
      observed superior conduct of all gender. It
      was a female officer that saved me from a
      bear and another that helped me get out of
      a flash-flooded fording.

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    @dmcwearpartsllc4005 ปีที่แล้ว +1

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  • @jansvendsen4482
    @jansvendsen4482 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ti fire 🇩🇰

    • @hamzabenz6839
      @hamzabenz6839 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Help me
      I'm operator motor grader

  • @1Klooch
    @1Klooch 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wonder where this is? Certainly not Southern AZ where I live. Most of the FR's haven't seen a blade since the Carter Administration. Search and Rescue and Border Patrol is constantly bitching about the condition and impassability of their roads. Most here are unsigned and FR numbers gone. Your Tax Dollars at Work! (Or not)

    • @samsnushall1668
      @samsnushall1668 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same all over the 1st world. Apparantly it's ok to have crews of guys making shitty patchups of sealed roads, but graders are not aloud to do more than 3 passes on a gravel road. And they wonder why 3rd world countries are moving ahead of us

    • @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679
      @toruko-ishibravo2zulu679 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I found Sector 13 of the US Border Patrol had
      obtained new ATV to access my county by-
      ways. But lacked trained operators for 24/7
      field operations in the temperate rain forest
      conditions. That's a galaxy far, far away from
      Arizona conditions and Carter's Administration.
      To complicate things a vast private tree farm
      amid mountain terrain is between ordinary
      USBP coastal services and a larger extent of
      forest eastward that is a Federal Wilderness.
      The private parts are gated and serviced by
      paid private foresters with heavy equipment.
      Opened to all US Citizens during the Hunting
      Season for Bears . That's when I've seen
      the USBP vehicles on timber harvest roads.

    • @1Klooch
      @1Klooch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@toruko-ishibravo2zulu679 Thanks for the info. In AZ the best maintained FRs are above the Mogollon Rim and adjacent to the Native American Reservations. Serious sportsman territory. Graded, signed and I would say, well maintained. Possibly due to pressure from various local Chambers of Commerce that depend on hunter/fisherman dollars. Below the Rim, down here in the deserts many of the FRs are anonymous and hard-core 4WD only.

  • @hamzabenz6839
    @hamzabenz6839 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dream operator motor grader 😔💔

  • @CABurton159
    @CABurton159 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:35 that dump truck looks like a delorean

  • @fixento
    @fixento ปีที่แล้ว

    They been closing road since 2008, the maintenance on existing roads is negligible leaving in deplorable condition. Why, their budget has increased with inflation but instead of maintenance they added people and raising salary and benefits. Typical federal government agency, less today for a more.

  • @Lovelove-je2ji
    @Lovelove-je2ji 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    ถนนที่ไหนน่ะนี่น่ากลัวจังสงสัยจะซ่อมยาก