LODI - It was a ditch-digger's dream. The 19th-century Fresno Scraper blade suddenly made it easy to build ditches and canals across the San Joaquin Valley, revolutionizing agriculture. Of course, ...
A precursor to modern bulldozers, the so-called “Fresno Scraper” was an agricultural breakthrough. It was created in the late 1880s by a 29-year-old blacksmith, inventor and businessman named James ...