If you have started from the beginning with Country Wild #1 you will have now traveled over 100 miles! Congratulations I want to thank you for all the wonderful compliments and Amazing logs, it's your logs (Found it AND Didn't Find It) that give me true enjoyment and I use them as a compass on what I do next in the series. I cannot thank you enough for the HUGE support you have given me so far. I hope you will enjoy the next 100 miles as I will soon bring Kansas to a close (not just yet) and we travel east into MO There is also something I would like to point out. In the 2nd leg of the Country Wild series I have decided to give you the chance to just enjoy the backroads of Kansas a bit more. As part of America's Heartland I find true enjoyment out of gravel roads and personally brings me back to the roots of my childhood. I can assure you, that in good weather you don't need a 4x4 to travel this leg of the trip. The space between hides are a bit longer then usual, again only because I want you to enjoy this part of Kansas (as well as not take up much hiding options from the local geocachers in the area). You will see that I am leading you to other areas that are dense in cache hides that don't belong to me. I feel that these areas I bring you deserve more attention and it is with my sincere love for the game that you will take the opportunity to find other caches that have already been hidden for your enjoyment.
As always there are a few things I ask that you bring with you while finding Country Wild Caches:
Things you will need to bring with you:
*Click Stick
*Geo-tool (some of these pesky nanos may be a little hard to retrieve )
*Geosense (some of these caches even though granted permission by land owner are on private property)
*Stealth( some areas are very muggle heavy, or traffic heavy, be sure to practice safety first)
*Wadeing boots.
*Gloves
*Favorite Music, (enjoy the tunes and the views, maybe not so much some of the smells ;) as you will discover).
*Camera (some of these places you will want to take a picture or to of).
Most importantly have fun. This series isn't meant to be anything other than a nice country drive.
I have made a Country Wild List for you to access easily to complete the whole series.
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In civil engineering, the grader's purpose is to "finish grade" (to refine or set precisely). The "rough grading" is performed by heavy equipment or engineering vehicles such as scrapers and bulldozers.
Graders are commonly used in the construction and maintenance of dirt roads and gravel roads. In the construction of paved roads they are used to prepare the base course to create a wide flat surface for the asphalt to be placed on. Graders are also used to set native soil foundation pads to finish grade prior to the construction of large buildings. Graders can produce inclined surfaces, to give cant (camber) to roads. In some countries they are used to produce drainage ditches with shallow V-shaped cross-sections on either side of highways.
Early graders were drawn by people and draft animals. The era of motorization by traction engines, steam tractors, motor trucks, and tractors saw such towed graders grow in size and productivity. The first self-propelled grader was made in 1920 by the Russell Grader Manufacturing Company, which called it the Russell Motor Hi-Way Patrol. These early graders were created by adding the grader blade as an attachment to a generalist tractor unit. After purchasing the company in 1928, Caterpillar went on to truly integrate the tractor and grader into one design—at the same time replacing crawler tracks with wheels to yield the first rubber-tire self-propelled grader, the Caterpillar Auto Patrol, released in 1931.