| The springtime calling of frogs had given way to the chirping of crickets and the distant barks of rutting roe deer. |
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| Today's laser profilers measure not only roughness but also rutting and texture. |
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| The Ylang Ylang scent, which I feared would stink like rutting pandas, smells like very old people. |
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| They are abundant in this area, and in the autumn the sound of the stags rutting reverberates. |
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| Conventionally male and female caribou are assumed to congregate on rutting areas, which I believe is usually true for Peary caribou. |
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| At this time of year it's rutting season for the deer, which means that stags are particularly aggressive and could attack dogs. |
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| With only a couple of exceptions, rutting activity is finished or nearly so. |
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| Use fewer trails to limit machine travel, and rutting may become a factor. |
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| It shows total energy consumption and green house gas emissions from a conventional solution to an SMA slow lane rutting problem. |
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| During wet periods, roads can become soft and rutting is more likely to occur. |
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| They paw rutting pits with their forelegs, urinate into them, and splash the urine-soaked muck onto their hairy bells. |
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| Much of the rutting in the epoxy asphalt section occurred in the underlying layer constructed with a 125 pen dense bitumen macadam. |
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| This will keep you out of danger while preventing excessive rutting and soil disturbance. |
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| For evaluating rutting tendency we have the wheeltracker test, a triaxial test with confining stress, and a Marshall test. |
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| Firstly, rutting was not minimized, which is important to reduce soil compaction and destruction of the understory vegetation. |
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| This is again reflected in higher levels of performance for the polymer modified binder in terms of resistance to rutting, cracking and fatigue. |
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| The lime improves the mechanical and chemical bonding properties between the bitumen and aggregate, reducing rutting and mechanical abrasion. |
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| Despite their efforts, many fields now have visible rutting from the heavy harvesting equipment. |
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| By spreading the load evenly, the Flotation Trac ensures minimal rutting and so the soil structure is preserved as far as possible. |
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| In addition, for both comfort and safety reasons, it was agreed that pavements should not have unacceptable levels of rutting in the wheel paths. |
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| Clearing and construction should be scheduled when the ground surface is strong enough to support equipment without rutting or erosion. |
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| A surface layer of snow also protects the ground surface from rutting and the potential for thermokarst erosion. |
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| In winter when temperatures are low, no rutting occurs because the mixture is elastic and all energy input into the pavement by traffic is returned in elastic rebound. |
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| As shadows fall and flesh goads, we all but hear the frenzied rutting amid the sirens. |
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| Apart from the distinct rutting behavior, one of the most pronounced features seen in many ungulates is the difference in habitat utilization before the rut season. |
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| But when the heart gets involved, all our painfully acquired metaphysical insights go right out the window, and we're reduced to battling it out like rutting chimpanzees. |
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| The sparring between bulls during rutting season can be extremely violent. |
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| A review of testing methods set out in the report identifies tests that can be used to simulate ageing and study cracking, de-bonding, rutting, ravelling and polishing performance. |
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| This is mostly based on the assumptions that the melting of wax reduces asphalt's resistance to rutting and that wax crystallisation at low temperatures contributes to asphalt cracking. |
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| Or was Duncan driven temporarily into shock by the sight of the two of them rutting on the sofa of a communal living room, without even bothering to close the door? |
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| This mainly involves rutting in a cloud of pink love-hearts, which provides welcome relief from the rather gloomy hiding and scrapping as you try to keep your strength up. |
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| Flotation tires can help reduce road construction and maintenance costs by decreasing the rutting and damage to roads associated with conventional gravel truck tires. |
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| To prioritize the work being planned, INO and Ministère des Transports have worked together to develop a 3D laser system to characterize and measure pavement rutting. |
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| Clancy clearly lays out the secrets for finding and taking down trophy quality whitetail bucks outside of their rutting season. |
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| The Council accepted this, and we shall now be able to do away with use of the substances for inducing rutting, something I consider to be major progress. |
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| Such damage may include compaction, rutting, erosion and nutrient loss. |
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| A two-lane road in a semi-urban setting with gravel shoulders has a pavement exhibiting extensive slight to moderate ravelling and coarse aggregate loss, minor cracking, and slight rutting. |
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| The APA has primarily been used for testing rutting resistance of hot-mix asphalt. |
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| The new center pivots offer a long list of impressive features and refinements, from a hydro-module that regulates the flow rate to special tires that prevent rutting. |
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| Results were conclusive with regard to the stated objectives of providing resistance to rutting and hydrocarbons at toll stations subjected to intensive heavy-vehicle traffic. |
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| During the rutting season the word for a bull caribou is angusalluq. |
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| Roebucks enter rutting inappetence during the July and August breeding season. |
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| Apart from mating during the rutting season, water deer are solitary animals, and males are highly territorial. |
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| When Dowell is obliged for the first time in his life to imagine his intimates undressed and rutting, he is having a revelation of just the same kind. |
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| We have all sorts of very large wildlife there and it makes me think of walking down a path with a 22 calibre rifle and coming across a grizzly bear in rutting season. |
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| The rutting, or mating, season lasts from June through September, with peak activity in July and August. |
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| If defects such as moderate or severe raveling, cracking, or rutting occur intermittently or frequently, the section is probably not a good candidate for slurry sealing. |
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| In either case, consideration should be given to the following when assessing pavement condition: cracking, rutting, skid resistance, structural strength and longitudinal evenness. |
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| They are protected from nesting birds, rutting mammals, and wayward buckshot. |
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| Only then do we understand his gender-crunching brio — the rutting, ballsy yowl of the voice paired with that oddly feminine hip twist and shimmer of the shoes. |
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| Sensitive areas, areas with high soil moisture and those prone to rutting and excessive soil disturbance are best entered after freeze-up or when dry in late summer. |
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| Teenagers are rutting no more now than they ever have. |
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| The types of surface damage which can be repaired using this method include rutting, pavement irregularities, cracking, loss of material, insufficient skid resistance or age-related wear. |
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| Vertical compressive stress is transmitted through all layers, and when the maximum compressive strain of the unbound layers is exceeded, structural rutting occurs. |
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| Hooley noticed this unintentional resurfacing had solidified the road, and there was no rutting and no dust. |
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| Pioneered by Scottish engineer John Loudon McAdam in the 1820s, Macadam roads are prone to rutting and generating dust. |
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| Most of the rutting from the accelerated loading occurred in the soil subgrade as was expected. |
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| I've often wished I had kept much better records of deer sightings, rutting activities, movement patterns, and a jillion other pertinent facts over the past 30 years. |
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| The same is also true of aggressive contests between individuals in the animal kingdom, whether it is rutting deer stags or quarrelsome Siamese fighting fish. |
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