20/80 I see your fellow Nova Scotian is cleaning up on Jeopardy. I never watch it, but the radio station and news talks about her a lot.You will drive yourself crazy trying to follow and enforce every little detail that they want you to do on a job site, every jobsite is different and everybody involved doing the work are not robots they are human and we make mistakes and **** happens, nobody can for see a incident that turns into something bad happening, you just can do what's called "reasonable within the circumstances", just make sure your paperwork is filled out to the letter, in the end that is all they are concerned about, it seems they couldn't care less what happens on a jobsite just as long as the paperwork is filled out right and the work gets done, this keeps the upper management from getting fined, so they think, you look after number 1.
Yes, she's doing all right, over half a million now she has made, 22 rounds and counting, she will get knocked off soon I.m afraid though.20/80 I see your fellow Nova Scotian is cleaning up on Jeopardy. I never watch it, but the radio station and news talks about her a lot.
Lol, that happens, you will be surprised how quick that will dry up though, won't take much to fix that up, thanks for sharing the pics.We ended up getting an 1.80 and I pulled shoulders on 2 miles that didn’t turn out the best starting to dry now hopefully get out and rework it and get it packed in before the next rain here is picture of road after rain just took blade out windrowed slop off so it was passable.View attachment 258703
Lol, for the life of me I never thought of that, not use to the gauge never had on my H series, I like checking my crown now to see where i'm at for a %, a narrower road would not be at 8.5%, alot of our new graders have these gauges, lol, thanksVery nice. That's a funky looking slope meter. Looks like degrees on top and % on bottom. I think it works out to because 9% crossfall is 5 degrees. So according to your meter, that's an 8.5% crown. No water on that puppy
That turned out really nice, great jobView attachment 258796 View attachment 258797 View attachment 258798 View attachment 258799 Got my road that I pulled the shoulders in on got it to turn out really good hard as asphalt now
I have been putting in a crown now by eye without a gauge for so long that this gauge is showing me where I have been at all these years, I can't watch the gauge all the time when i'm spreading and put a crown in that way, everything is still by eye and checked afterwards now with the gauge, just old school I guess.This is the slope meter I have in my machines I run 4 to 5% crown on my roads had great success with that I figure a half inch of crown for every foot of road you have View attachment 258805
I have been putting in a crown now by eye without a gauge for so long that this gauge is showing me where I have been at all these years, I can't watch the gauge all the time when i'm spreading and put a crown in that way, everything is still by eye and checked afterwards now with the gauge, just old school I guess.
I grade using the 3 pass method. But I leave loose material under my blade on the last pass, which leaves a crown. And leaves my gravel in the center. Most of my roads have one set of tracks right down the middle.Good looking job. Same here used feel and eye asked for slope meter but foreman said not necessary. I was doing finish work before seal coat I would use magnet torpedo level on window frame to give me ideal how close I was (poor man has poor ways). One grader driver would make 3 passes one from each side to middle then last pass blade straight down middle he called it "flat blading" his roads worst in county full or pot holes water wouldn't run off road. Always hated when others would blade my assigned roads and cut my crown out. I miss running grader but not the drivers that would not listen or want to do better job. Our engineer told me to stay at it like an ant I told him I live like a grasshopper.
I have lots of roads like that in your picture, we own 33ft from center on each side for our right of way, some roads are more, the gravel in the pics was 20 years of waiting and grading without, I wish all my roads were graveled like this, the gravel you see in the pic is some of the best I worked with, But the next road may be done with gravel that's 1 point off being rejected which would be just garbage, different contractor wins the bid we get gravel from another pit in most cases are trash, here's a pic of a little rock that was in the middle of the one of my roads sticking up from the frost pushing on it, was about 6" high out of the road that I pulled out, I have lots of rocks like this to deal with.I grade using the 3 pass method. But I leave loose material under my blade on the last pass, which leaves a crown. And leaves my gravel in the center. Most of my roads have one set of tracks right down the middle.
I am an "ant". Repetition rather than plowing a road a couple times a year. My roads get bladed an average of 10 times a year.
Here's an example of a narrow one.
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Yes that's correct, some roads have more of a right a way, I get alot of property owners that extend their lawns right to the edge of the road, some fill in the ditches for their lawns, then they like to phone and bitch when the road in front of their house is flooded with water and mud, they really don't like what I do to fix that, lol, that's why we have a right away in place.So you generally have a 66ft right of way. That would be a great improvement for me.
Us Grader guys always want more!!!!