In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry.
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In the case of trucks, a badly “washboarded” highway tends to limit the maximum possible load which the truck's springs can carry.
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To estimate this sap tension, a cylindrical item, having the same radius as that of the depressions on the wavy, washboarded surface, was pressed from the top into the earlywood layer of a specimen placed on the flat dynamometer, until the depth of depression produced equalled that for the washboarded surface.
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So, into his car we climbed, driving about five and a half miles east of town on bumpy, dusty, hilly, washboarded gravel roads, churning up a trail of dust as we went.
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Chances are good that it is extremely washboarded by now.
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