What a awesome job, well down, love your material you have to work with, roller make a difference for sure, I agree with putting sign's out on bigger jobs like a road recovery or training purposes, not every day road maintenance grading, thanks so much for sharing
Man its dry, the Dept pulled us off the roads till it rains, there are to huge fires happening here in NS, western district, and central district, both are out of control, nothing in my area the eastern district as of yet, but give it time some fool will start something, rain in the forecast for the next few days which is welcomed, but just before these fires started here we received 2" of rain, didn't take long to dry up, very early for it being this dry, by August it will be crazy hot and dry.
My area was the hottest in Canada according to the weather channel. Today it went down to 8 (46). Been raining on and off all afternoon. Got shut down early. Broke my new Mauldin yesterday. Took my old one back for a while. Forgot how hot it is in the cab. Can't even touch the steel beside the seat. The valve banks are fastened to the bottom of it, and it gets really hot to touch. I wish I could have the power and traction of the new one, but the controls of the old one. Hate the single electronic joystick. Even the guys on the crew noticed how much happier I seemed running the old girl.
Nice work, make the water run, doesn't look like alot of big rock in your material, more topsoil looking, thinking it would get a bit greasey if it rained, again great job, thanks for sharing
Nice job, the roller really packs it, looks like good gravel with lots of fines in it, makes for some easy grading down the road, thanks for sharing
Hard to find a grader man these day's, the new gen operators need the GPS to function it seems, old school operators are slowly dying off, hope he works out for you.
Don't get me wrong, I still prefer the production sized grader over the little maintainer, but I find doing government work has changed so much. Most of these inspectors are still wet behind the ears. I have put down about 800 tonne of fresh off the milling machine, not screened rap, between yesterday and this morning with a maintainer, and not my new one. Old girl was working hard for her money. We are doing a road resurfacing for the city, and the engineering dept decided to cover two parking lots I can see from the job. Not real big junks, but junky enough. Miller broke this morning around 9. They got it going enough to get it off the road. Then the flaggers had to stand out in pouring rain untill they brought another machine up from Moncton to taper the cut for the night. There is an outfit that is going down hill,,Miller group. Guy on the pulverizer last year told me that since the europeans bought them out, they don't fix anything until it breaks. I guess Northern group is in the same boat.
Sad really, a lot of companies run that way now, no more active prevention, just reactive prevention, parts are hard to get also, most suppliers don't stock much anymore, had a air to air elbow hose rubbed a small hole in the hose, was a week getting it from Cat, was coming out of Germany, one would think Cat would have one in North America, I was told Irving bought out Miller group.
Colas Group France. Northern Construction was bought by Vincy, Also from France. They ordered parts for the shaker on our asphalt plan in the fall after the season was done. Just got the plant going last Friday. One of our super dutys needs a set of warn hubs, They were put on the truck 3 years ago for a price of 350 bucks. They have lifetime warranty but Napa can't get any for a month, and they are now almost 800