GR translation: when the sun has dried the ruts and crowns again by noon

Mike Jing gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com
Wed Mar 23 00:39:28 CDT 2016


So the meaning I quoted was incorrect.  Which part of the picture does it
refer do exactly?

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 6:52 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Where there are ruts, there are crowns. Ask any farm kid.
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> Here's a pic
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> http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-muddy-gateway-at-the-entrance-to-a-field-near-the-cotswold-village-6749546.html
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> Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote :
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> > Yes. For drainage, well-made roads are either crowned -- water draining
> to both sides -- or banked to one side. ("Ruts," though, suggests
> a dirt surface on which the crown may bepnly theoretical.)On Tue, Mar 22,
> 2016 at 3:46 AM, Mike Jing <
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