Where broken stones are used for the top ballasting none of them should be larger than will pass through a 1½-inch ring.
Where the ballasting is not channelled there is some risk of the sleepers breaking in the middle.
On Upper Peninsula roads ballasting was estimated at a higher price than on Lower Peninsula roads, while ties and timber construction were estimated at a lower figure.
There is no doubt that roadbed, for example, does appreciate, due to ballasting and track work.
The circumstance of ballasting a ship at the Bell Rock afforded great entertainment, especially to the sailors; and it was perhaps with truth remarked that the Smeaton was the first vessel that had ever taken on board ballast at the Bell Rock.
We commenced caulking our leaky decks to-day, and despatched the launch to assist in ballasting the barque.
Ballasting the barque, and overhauling and setting up our topmast and lower rigging, and caulking decks.
Speedy construction was considered of the first importance and then the ballasting could be done much cheaper after the track was down.
One reason for deferring the masonry work as well as the ballasting was the inability to handle the necessary supplies.
Then comes the main body of the army, placing the ties, laying the track, spiking down the rails, perfecting the alignment, ballasting and dressing up and completing the road for immediate use.
This is an impractical arrangement because it would have created an impossible ballasting problem.
In addition, were such ballasting possible, the combined weights were too far forward to give proper trim, and a great deal more ballast would have been required far aft, a most impractical proceeding.
We had now demonstrated the fact that our boat was tight, that our air was sufficient for breathing, and that our ballasting system was perfect.
The only way I could learn to sit in the canvas canoe was by ballasting her with pig iron and gradually reducing the ballast as I became more expert, until finally I learned how to keep an equilibrium and maintain the canoe upright.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ballasting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
