When you pick Asphalt Paving by J.A. Cooper you pick the Best! Removal and Paving of a 45,000 square foot parking lot. J.A. Cooper paves driveways, parking lots, and access roadways.
you know, ive been in the paving industry for almost 35 years, in Washington state, and have worked for the best of the best, and on really watching your video, and your company! you guys to a damn fine job and by two lifting the mix courses gives you top compaction! Awesome job and QUALITY AT ITS FINEST. WTG you guys hiring? take care and again nicely done.
PavingbyJACooper - Have you ever considered using a milling machine to remove the old asphalt? It is a lot faster and cuts to grade. You could probably take a day off your construction timeline.
alot of the ppl commenting negatively (not all) have experience in the field and think they can do better. some actually can, but the fact of the matter is this : was the client happy? did he pay in full? good job, onto the next one.
I have paved many highways, streets, and parking lots. Parking lots are the worst, small pulls, cut up, lots of hand work. And you never get a breather as long as a truck is there with a load. So when I say up close you can't hide bad joints or low spots, I do know what I'm talking about.
This is probably around a 1200 ton paving job. You say no other paving company could do this job faster. Nonsense! We have knocked out jobs like these in day. To the guys ripping him for useing a paver to grade a job, we have done and so have other big companies. pavers are designed to lay a smooth consistent grade, so why not? No spraying diesel in the hopper? How the hell do you keep clean then? Do you diesel you shovels? He had three rollers on the job, which is rare to see on a 1200 ton lot. I would ditch the wheel barrows and use a skid loader for the hand work though. Also to those saying he needs a bigger paver, the Lee boy high deck is perfect for a job that size. Cooper, do let me know when you can throw down 6000 ton in a day ;)
Seems like you work/own on a pave crew. You use diesel to clean with but have you ever heard of a dry ice pressure washer? youtube that, it cleans anything with out a mess! Could be useful for you??!!
So many things to say wrong here. First off I am a big commercial paver and road work. This job should have only taken 1 day 2 max. Second if you would have used a grinder you could have taken the asphalt and the sand all together. (or get a better operater on that excavator) There are these things called motor graders they work wonders, thats what us big boys use. Using your paver is a nice way to scratch the screed and destroy those flight chains especially on a cheap leeboy (the poor mans paver) the rollors used here are way to small and dont even have vibrating on them. try using a cat paver and a cat roller. That stone base you put in is useless casue it wasnt compacted with a vibratory roller. The smallest roller we have is 8 ton and a bring a 16 ton on almost every job. I can remove and replace between 3-6 thousand tons per day depending on the job, and thats with using my weiler P385 not my highway paver. And for god sake use a skid steer for the hand work, or make your site downs when you back up it takes 10 seconds to do it or a good operator can make his own sit downs, and that paver has more then just a slow speed. Please people do not use this as a good reference for a good paving job, this is a good example of a class A GYPSE
Amen brother I was thinking the same damn things. Get a 7' grinder and have a skip loader pulling out edges and corners you'd be striping by the third day.
You’re definitely a dumb ass union boy, i’ll put my 8616 running next to my volvo 4410 and still have the same production rate and quality as the bigger machine it’s all about having what’s right for your company dumbass the only thing you got right is the roller being too small for the base material
I grew up next door to an asphalt paving company and still know the owners. Watched them do a lot of jobs over the years and this video make me cringe. Very, very poorly done.
@@ronbriggs6905 so was they paving there own property all the time, I live next to a heart surgeon I’ve never saw him do a surgery, but I did just watch a couple RU-vid videos on flying fighter jets so I’m probably a expert , think about what you said you use to live next door to a pacing company and would watch them do jobs lol , you didn’t have much to do did you
It looks good from a distance however, up close is another story. To someone who knows what they're looking at, you can't hide bad joints or low spots.
you know why cant ppl just enjoy a good vid instead u have to nit pick every little thing i have wrked paving for the last 3 years and not always do we wear our hard hats when we paved I-91 in VT we def have to any state or municiple highway we wear them ......geeze good vid keep em coming
Whoa! How about ten times more narration as to what is taking place and why? This looks very interesting and we would like to understand more about it. Thanks!
don't you think you should grad that lot before u put the rock down. and your not going to get any compaction if you don't get some better rollers. your guys roll way to fast and they don't have vibratory rollers witch is no good. if my guys left joint like that I would make them rip it back out and start over. and you need to tell who ever you get your mix from they need to lay off the man sand and put some more oil in it. it is way to dry for parking lots
Ok, we all think our dad is the best but for not a good job the job is now 6 years old and there still is not one crack nor a seal coat because it still looks great
this is a "in genreal" question. when someone decides to repave a parking lot, is it better to tear up the existing asphalt/concrete or just pave over it? is there (I'm sure there are) differences & if so what.
do you work for a small company? the company I work for we put down an average of 10,000-25,000 tons a day that's with only 5 guys 2 on the paver 2 on 2 different rollers and 1 laborer
You should always put at least at min 2 inch after compaction if customer can't afford it 1 1/2 lift is no good you have to think of quality instead of just getting a check like a fly by night gypsy with equipment I have 2 days start to end would be normal 4 days you are taking your time but it is harder to put down thin layers
4 days is a good completion time. All these highway asphalt people that never have to worry about water runoff because they are paving 2-3 lanes total width for miles straight are clueless to the skill needed to do residential/light commercial work. Try doing a private job at your prevailing rate, you'll never work. Just another example of cluelessness. Stick to the straight-a-ways and your booze.
the company i work for will do a million square feet in a couple days grading it and paving. With a 8 man crew. This is absolutely nothing. That job should be done in a day.
Miles Davy , you are so full of shit. A million square feet? How thick is your base gravel course? How thick is your asphalt? And finally, how many tons per hour does your asphalt plant produce? Million square feet in two days? Grade and pave? WTF are you smokin!!! Pfft definitely the most comical statement I've heard this week.
Brian...since when do highway asphalt people not have to worry about water run off? Water run off of roads is far more important than it is for a parking lot. Pull your head out of your backside.
Thats hard on those hopper flights, running rock thru them, evr heard of a grader!!! WTF Was that one of your guys spraying diesel in the hopper, that had mix in it! boy not too smart, inspector see's that and that load will be rejected and removed!!
One more comment sorry what grade asphalt do you use and do you own the plant you get it from. I ask for a couple reasons one companies that pull up the asphalt and mill it and then put it back as gravel or even fresh hot asphalt I think the people who do own the paving companies and plants should cut the customer a break on price if your giving their material right back to them. I always wondered that because if you do how much because I always have to go to an asphalt plant and dump and then they sell it back to me later. That's fine but if you own both I think customers should get a break.
Not condemning your work but , set your gates, tighten your gates, match hot on hot and there should not be any raking except on your header mat. Train your truckers to break their load, drop a stage and train your operator to pick trucks up on the fly. That project of 45,000 square feet and with that paver, that job should have taken 5 hours to pave.
Lots of equipment cost hitting this job and equipment just setting, 2nd paver not working, no quality control what was the density readings and did you get compactions,
Do you guys work far out of state? If so; just how far would you limit your business depending on the job of let’s say-a lot that fits a supersized retail store.
To everybody talking mad shit in the comments i guess nobody sees the 3-5 hyster behind the truck at 5:10 and all the union boys saying about the paver being too small don’t understand the concept of being a “smaller company”
Kelly, i just want to do a small driveway space. If i have the asphalt delivered, spread out i guess i can just use a power tamper to set it? I always thought it needed to be heated
Hi I have a question.I have just watched a vid on Yellowstone volcano and some of the roads have melted.They put it down to a bad asphalt job combined with the summer heat melting the road is this true?Thankyou jen
Didn't see 1 wacker out there. Are all they're edges rolled off from the rollers? Oh and by the way there are paving crews that could do that quicker and Better than you. Sorry no hard feelings
How UNFORTUNATE for the large black ribbons, with Letters, Numbers, and Symbols OBSCURING THE VIEW. Unable to see the QUALITY Work you are speaking of . . .
To paver man , im a gypsy also and your not as smart as you think you are, nothing wrong with those rollers, the guy with the tamp shoes on is so you can make it somewhat smooth as it sets up before you roll it, leeboy pavers are the most sold and popular paver out there , and i'v had demoed a cat paver to see if i liked it before i bought it ,no good it was a big turd, so i went with the 8515 leeboy, hands down all around way better paver ,and for that gypsy remark looks like he's got a damn good business from what I see,
Your like me we need to buy a road grader to do a better job . I buy my asphalt from a guy that has his on asphalt plant bee doing it 35 years road grader only way to get all humps out . But nice job
To all the haters out there, especially the gypsy haters, the parking lot looks great. Yea there are a couple of rough seams but it was also laid in the beginning of May, I would love to see anyone do a better job and faster. Kudos J. A. Cooper on a job well done. Looks awesome.
Their seams suck.. No one tamps any of the edges... and the black guy should learn to walk on it after its rolled not before, or get a hand roller... the end of the 16ft wide road wasn't not saw cut. Looks cold out everyone has hoodies on, the owner should know its gttaa be a 70 degree day or higher for top to look good.
Obviously there are no drains to deal with. The parking lot has a natural flow, in which it looks like they did a wonderful job getting the water to flow away from the building. But he didn't specify what grades where used.
Rajeev Persaud 1 day to rip it and grade possibly start binder course. 2nd day finish the binder and then top. later that day paint the lines. That's how me and my my crew do it .. That lot does not have that many square yards... Also it would be seemless, with no duck ponds.... FACT
Look for the positives ,and stop looking for the negatives , decent job done , by a mid sized company .Marciano and Marvelous Marvin CITY OF CHAMPIONS .
haha you guys use a paver do to your base work sure I mean it works good but its hard on it and its slow as hell, plus get a bigger paver to do those bigger jobs my god
+Brian * I call bullshit ,long gone are the days of unskilled private contractors paving public roads and doing shit work , the work & men your bashing go thru inspections that residential contractors never see ,like mandatory temps of above 220 before the asphalt can be released from the truck ,compaction testing & more , I've never even seen a scan contractor own a digital thermometer to make sure their not dumping product under 220 .
4 DAYS MY MAN WE CAN PAVE A HIGHWAY IN A 12 HR SHIFT BUT THATS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GYPSY PAVERS AND SOMEONE IN THE LABORERS UNION! Y'ALL RELATED TO PITTORE BROS IN NH
the union is a joke you drive down the highway you have 1 guy working and 10 guys standing around doing jack shit. its not hard to pave a highway when the grade is already there you have trucks lined up with blacktop and you have a road paver that goes out to 20ft. im not saying cooper is the best paver but the union sucks dick
I finish rake all day and make 23 plus my OT lol couple my buddys work for gypsys and a couple local construction companies on asphalt crews and make a fraction of that
IMONMYBOSTONSHT617 your proving my point your being over paid for half the work the union is a joke. a half assed white guy who has paving experience come a dime a dozen but one who is willing to work are hard to find. if you work hard you will make more than 15 dollars an hour. i know paving companies paying illegal mexicans 25 an hour because they work hard have been with the company a while and appreciate the job
Hazel Dilsaver you sound jealous illegals out here wait at dunkin donuts while gypsys pick them up and pay cash we work hard lol you saying we don't is a slap in our face i have seen driveway companies do a base and top in a 8 to 12 hour shift on 1 driveway please we bang out bridges tunnels roadways in 8 hr shifts theres no comparassion at all
I wouldn’t run “gravel” aka base rock through a paver I cared about. These east coast guys always doin weird stuff. Get a skip loader and find someone that can run it.
Actually bud, running gravel through your paver saves you money and time compared to a grader. I'm a strong believer in your top only turns out as good as your base. To change screeds is 4 hours approx. And at least then you have the perfect grade no grader operator can come close to. Will cost ya in flight chains and other shit but time saved, one year parts paid for in one job. Not 200 ton, a real job. I know my shit and would love to show you some day. My old Italian boss had the saying " No sense you kill the men ". I lucked out in my 32 years paving and got the best teachers from screed, to rake, to Top Cons. We all do this shit for a living but do have to say. This company does shit work.
raker staker lmao!!!! No grader operator will come close???? Are you kidding me? Come out to the west coast and see what a perfect grading job looks like! All these east coast jobs look like shit. I never see a water truck and I rarely see tack. Smh.
