Before Hydraulics: The Brutal Reality of 1930s Motor Graders!

Описание: Before Hydraulics: The Brutal Reality of 1930s Motor Graders!

Motor grader operators in the 1920s and 1930s built every road we drive on today. They did it on machines with no cabs, no hydraulics, and no rollover protection, cranking cast-iron hand wheels against thousands of pounds of resistance, hundreds of times per shift. Construction death rates ran 150 to 200 per 100,000 workers. Ten times the modern rate.

From the first horse-drawn Adams Leaning Wheel Grader in 1885 to the revolutionary Caterpillar Auto Patrol in 1931, this documentary covers the machines, the men, and the brutal working conditions that built America's road network before hydraulics existed.

⏱️ Timestamps:
0:00 - Introduction
1:35 - J.D. Adams and the "Little Wonder" Leaning Wheel Grader (1885)
4:58 - Russell Grader Manufacturing and the Mogul (1903)
5:55 - The World's First Self-Propelled Motor Grader (1919)
7:09 - Two-Person Crew Tractor-Graders of the 1920s
8:26 - America's Road Crisis: 93% Dirt Roads in 1904
9:07 - Federal Aid Road Acts and the Highway Boom
11:07 - Galion Iron Works and Austin-Western
12:42 - The Caterpillar Auto Patrol Changes Everything (1931)
17:09 - The Legendary No. 12 Auto Patrol (1938)
17:17 - What Cable-Operated Blade Control Actually Demanded
18:52 - The Brutality of Pure Mechanical Graders
21:02 - Operating Conditions That Would Be Illegal Today
24:13 - Construction Death Rates vs. Combat Soldiers
24:42 - Building Roads Through the Great Depression (WPA)
27:14 - WPA Airports That Secretly Prepared for World War Two
28:31 - How Hydraulics Finally Ended the Era of Brute Force
32:40 - The Hidden Cost of America's Roads

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