21. This is, in the mechanized age, usually done by a ballast tamping machine. 22. Attention focused on the costs and benefits of tamping the ballast over the sleeper ends. 23. With your other hand, fill pot with moistened soil mix, tamping to firm. 24. He figured out there wasn't anything tangible tamping down his numbers on the road. 25. But in addition to tamping its swings, governments can mitigate a downturn's effects. 26. But at the moment, the king seems focused more on tamping down resentment at home. 27. _How to Make a tamper for tamping down asphalt patching ( comes with illustration ). 28. An alternative to tamping is to lift the rails and sleepers and reinsert the ballast beneath. 29. They had previously owned six other tamping machines, which were acquired between 1959 and 1975. 30. They like the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's zeal in tamping down inflation, too.