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the first motorgrader

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That photo brings back memories. Back in January 1986 when I had just started out as a new Operator I was assigned to a road crew proudly at the helm of my old Tampo RS16 and the grader Operator, a man in his late 60's named Robert who honestly turned out to be the single greatest Grader Operator I've have known or seen since began his career at the ripe old age of 13 on his families farm in Virginia at the simple controls of a horse-drawn grader. Robert passed away about 15 years ago but operated a grader magnificently until the day he died. He'd chew on a toothpick and play the levers like a concert pianist all the while mumbling to himself. You know someone is a master at their chosen craft when the crew was about to shovel clean the valley curb and he yelled at us from the seat of his brand new open ROPS Cat 120G to "stop that silliness" he then set the moldboard perfectly in the valley and without so much as a scratch on the recently cured concrete set about removing every last bit of dirt. Robert was one impressive Operator in the truest sense of the word. RIP R.L.
 
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