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[oakland]

I was once told Valentine have over 80 milling machines...dayummmmmm

i wouldnt doubt it. there was 4 on one job here and i looked them up on google earth and they have a pretty good sized yard with lots of mills. there is always atleast one of there mills around here.one of there planers is sitting in western constructions yard being taken apart dont know what happened to it but the whole drum assembly was gone.

[milling_drum]

That one there in the Picture being a PR1200 looks to be a rear loading machine. I've never seen one of those at all. I have run the Front loading PR1050 models. Both those types of CMI have removable cutter assemblies and they can change out the drum sizes from 10 ft to 16 ft. Biggest I've ever run is the 12ft drum on a 1050, and that 30 year old Ingersoll in Nebraska.

I'm wondering how old this one is...

That one sitting is prolly having an entire housing with the drum brought up to it from the shop or something like that. I dunno those names you tossed around but if they let them leave it in the yard that means they have plenty of work still planned for it once they get the drum in place.

[d4c24a]

here is a nice little machine we uk in the trenching game here in the uk
the one pictured has a 19 inch wide drum with a maximum depth of 18-20 inches it is cutting to its full depth through tarmac and concrete at the job i am on at the moment ,it leaves nice edges for reinstatement and the millings are used else where (my friends farm)
the base machine is a case 860 with a 200 hp cummins
cheers graham

[milling_drum]

That looks like a cross between a mill and a rock saw....cutting deep into concrete and asphalt would require a nice, patient and unhungover operator hahahaha...

Powerful unit for sure.

[Grader4me]

Here are a couple of pictures that I took today. They are milling 8 kms for us. Leveling/shaping with the grader.

[hvy 1ton]

Every year the township rents a reclaimer for a month or so to fix up the paved secondary roads around here. When they chew up the roads the add bitumen from a tanker.

[milling_drum]

Thanks for the Pic's Graderman. I used to work for Miller back in the Mid 90's in Toronto. I also worked for them in Atlanta. They used to send machines to Atlanta from Canada all the the time and they all came from different divisions.

In New Brunswick they are called "New Brunswick Industrial Cold Planing" in Quebec its "Talon Seqbec" or something, I mighta spelled that wrong. Miller are the biggest Road construction outfit in Canada last I heard.

[Grader4me]

Yes, they are a large company I believe. I know they go right out staight. They aren't afraid to work either, and they do a great job. I'm going back down there tomorrow to help the grader operator out so maybe I'll get a few more pictures.

[oakland]

hey milling drum i got some pics for ya these are from a project here, they have 3 terex stabilizers. the contractor is porter yett from portland oregon. you can see more of the project in the showtime section under freeway widening

[milling_drum]

I gots some pictures of Dustrol's 30 year old 14ft machines that I was running briefly this year....

Unfortunately, I took a few risque pics of my G/F on that same roll of film and she dumped the CD with ALL pictures....need a digital for sure.

I'll get em scanned soon but they might be kinda icky cuz of the scan...

[milling_drum]

Broken Manholes

[telescooper]

The ground man must not have seen the manhole. dosen't look like they stopped to check things out either
Telescooper

[Bellboy]

Now my youth and ignorance is really showing. What is it like to drive on a recycled/reclaimed/milled piece of road? I have seen a few of those big wirtgen reclaimers/recyclers here, and the idea seems good, but I can't be sure 'coz i've never seen the finished version of a remilled road(recycled material mixed with asphalt) I would probably try that, but i have no idea how nicely it finishes. I saw a segment about a wirtgen recycler once on TV, and they were finishing with single drum soil compactors, (smooth drums), tandems and then peumatic rollers.

I also saw an article about green road building compared to the traditional methods, and somewhere they said that the recycling method saves around R9.69 per ton on a recycled road base. The numbers get bigger the more you recycle the road.

[Steve Frazier]

One of the roads near me was recycled a few years ago. They ground up all the asphalt to a base like material and compacted it. It was left for about 2 weeks, at that stage it was like driving on a gravel road. After the 2 weeks, they came through and put down binder followed by oil and stone top. Today it's like driving on any other paved road. I'm in a rural area where we have no manholes nor curbs, just the occasional culvert crossing under the pavement.

[Grader4me]

As Steve said, after it's leveled out, shaped and compacted it's the same as driving on a gravel road. It makes a good road after it's been chipsealed. If left to long before sealing it bonds together and becomes like pavement again. Then it becomes hard to grade.
We have hauled this reclaim to gravel roads to see how it would work. Once leveled it made a beautiful road but after a few weeks it turned back to pavement again. Places in the road that didn't bond, separated and became potholes, so we ended up with a not so perfect road.
We have hauled crushed rock over top of this and Chipsealed. We have also just Chipsealed over the reclaim and that has worked good to.