Nebraska Tractor Test upgrades 51-year-old track.The Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory's test track is getting an upgrade which will allow testing of larger and heavier tractors and other equipment. About a quarter inch was worn off the old concrete track, built in 1956, and it was no longer wide enough or thick enough for today's machines. It also had banked ends to change the elevation so the leaded gasoline gasoline or petrol, light, volatile mixture of hydrocarbons for use in the internal-combustion engine and as an organic solvent, obtained primarily by fractional distillation and "cracking" of petroleum, but also obtained from natural gas, by used back then would not separate and cause the tractors running at constant power to lose power. The new track will be 22 feet wide and nine inches thick--seven feet wider and two inches thicker than the old track. It has a sub-surface drainage system Noun 1. drainage system - a system of watercourses or drains for carrying off excess water system - instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as a coherent entity; "he bought a new stereo system"; "the system consists of a and is built on a base of gravel and crushed rock. It also will have out-board banks that will allow for higher speed testing. Roger Hoy Hoy, island, 13 mi (21 km) long and 6 mi (9.7 km) wide, off N Scotland, second largest of the Orkney Islands. It is located at the southwestern side of the Scapa Flow anchorage. , director of the tractor test laboratory, said no tax money is being used to fund the $700,000 project. It is being funded by testing premiums, off-season testing and the lab's operating budget Noun 1. operating budget - a budget for current expenses as distinct from financial transactions or permanent improvements budget items, operating cost, operating expense, overhead - the expense of maintaining property (e.g. . |
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