Yeah there pretty heavy the 4ft sections are pretty easy to handle plus once you put them on I rotate them once halfway through the season then don’t have to do anything with them plus you always have a straight edge to work with.
Image?Our graders run 8ft x 12” deep 1-1/4” thick flat edges. Try picking one of those up....
65 tons per mile you will be spreading it pretty thin I would say, that like 6 tandem loads per mile, how many roads do you have to look after?
Sorry thought I had an image. The snip is from the GET Handbook.
I’m surprised that they won’t go with a carbide edge when you first get them yeah 2000 dollars sounds like a lot of money but I’ve now put 1900 hours on these edges so to me it’s well worth the money plus don’t have to change edges anymore. I totally agree with you on recovery of gravel and dealing with vegetation separates the drivers and the operators we mainly just put them phots in for what a good road should look like because as you know in this work if ya can’t picture what the road is supposed to look like in your head before you start your not going to be a very good operator.
Yes I agree, but its hard to get the department and some older hands to change and try new things even when it makes more sense, I use Stinger blades year round and I prefer them to the older straight blades, I am on my 4 year with them, other then changing out the bits every now and then when they get wore down and putting hard surfacing on the ends I have over 6000 hrs on them, they are up for replacement this summer, $3600 Canadian for a set, I like your pictures thanks for sharing them, I do a bit of training on road recovery every now and then to help out the newer operators learning on our graders, as you know it takes lots of patience and I try not to over whelmed them till they get the swing of things, some new operators can get stressed out really quick on a grader trying to learn.
Is that an average thickness that you can thicken up or thin down as needed?
Moisture is not a problem in my neck of the woods, a lot of times we have to much which causes pot holes, we call it job security, a roller would make a huge difference, but we never use them.
The one township I do is a very populated township I have several miles that have 12 houses on them we’ve put traffic counters out and I average 100 to 200 vehicles a day on my well traveled roads there annual budget for the year is 400,000 dollars that’s just one of the 4 other townships I work for.
