See this adorable Ingersoll-Rand DD-110HF vibratory asphalt compactor.

This old road roller is "rollin' down the road" in more ways than one.

 

Operators can't help but look cute with that canopy over their heads.

 

With those nice 78-inch-wide drums, why, in merely two passes ye can smoosh down a spread of blacktop thirteen feet wide.

 

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In Osolo Township north of Elkhart, Indiana, on September 14th, 2014, in the parking lot of a Texas Roadhouse restaurant at the north end of Brittany Trail, north of East Windsor Avenue.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Elkhart (county) (1002353)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• brand names (300417219)

• canopies (structural elements) (300069732)

• construction sites (300312090)

• parking lots (300007826)

• tandem rollers (300022281)

• yellow (color) (300127794)

 

Wikidata items:

• 14 September 2014 (Q17981624)

• Elkhart–Goshen metropolitan area (Q6173931)

• Ingersoll Rand (Q1663044)

• Michiana (Q1769502)

• Northern Indiana (Q7058433)

• Osolo Township (Q7107316)

• road roller (Q216842)

• September 14 (Q2847)

• September 2014 (Q12580529)

• Treaty of Chicago (Q928799)

 

Transportation Research Thesaurus terms:

• Asphalt concrete pavements (Pmrcppbmd)

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