Bret4207 said: (quoted from post at 12:26:58 10/29/13) Rich, I live an a very heavily Amish area.... There is no way under Gods blue sky that an 800 lbs horse and 400 lbs buggy do anywhere near the damage to the road an 80K lbs tractor-trailer do, or a 40K tractor and 12K gallon liquid manure spreader.
A heavily-traveled asphalt road built to normal county road standards in an Amish/Mennonite area will be destroyed/require resurfacing from buggies in about 3-5 years. They always take the same "line" on the road and it will really throw a vehicle around at posted speeds if you end up in the furrows those buggy wheels cut.
Locally, some highways now have a large enough berm for the buggy to stay off of the road surface. Same story, about 3-5 years and the berm's a mess. Highways without the berm, at posted speeds, usually 50-55 mph. are really interesting with those grooves. Safe travel at posted speeds usually would require the left wheel to be on the center line.
AG
This post was edited by AG in IN at 10:33:53 10/30/13.
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