good video! I'm a distributor operator here in Tx, we ALWAYS shoot a .32 on residential streets and a. 26 on cul de sacs. we use 2p with trap rock. I would ask the chip spreader operator to leave me a little more room to tie in! love the video fellas
@JimGeorgeAndSons Wow! Very interesting! As a kid, I couldn't wait until summer came round just to see you guys in action! Thanks for the answer and have a safe oil chip'n season this year!
@TowerClimber81 Yes that's exactly what happens. A jaw on the spreader grabs onto a pull bar mounted to the truck. The truck is pulled backward while in neutral, all the driver does is keep the truck straight. This can be a bit scary for the truck driver since we move pretty quick, but you do get used to it. We move about 400 feet per minute, perhaps faster or slower depending on several variables. Glad you enjoyed the video!
I remember that oil truck when it was sold the atlas il township, my father drove it, his workers operated the chipper and I operated the pneumatic roller.
In St. Joseph County, Indiana we use #11 slag @ 17 Lbs per sq. yd. with a AE-90 emulsion at a rate 0.40 gallons per sq. yd. Each tandem holds approx. 14 ton of slag, so we get about one lane mile of road done with 7 truck loads.
That's pretty much the same as what happens here in Northern IL. Of course specs vary slightly from county to county or depending on the engineer. We've used slag a bit here, but the most popular aggregate choice around here are limestone chips. I'd like to see us experiment with slag a bit more, as I think it performs well. We've used it most on private projects.
Sometimes we can catch the radius with the spray bar by turning valves on and off as needed. This method may require maneuvering the truck around quite a bit, but it goes fast with a good operator/driver. Another way is hand application using the spray wand. That method works, but you will be sore afterward! Thanks for the questions!
The liquid is the asphalt used to seal the road, and bind the gravel chips to the road surface. The type used here is an emulsion of asphalt and water (basically). This emulsion allows the asphalt to be applied at a lower temperature (about 150-200 degrees F) than if it were pure (300+). This makes the product more user and environmentally friendly, also much safer. Once the emulsion is applied, the water quickly evaporates out, leaving only the asphalt behind.
The "white powder latex" substance you refer to is likely a base stabilizer containing cement, lime, and possibly some other materials as well. Sometimes asphalt and/or cement are injected into soils, sub bases, to stabilize them prior to application of the base or surface material. That field of work is much different than what is being done here, but it still falls under the broad umbrella of needs and services provided by the asphalt/concrete/road-building industry. Thanks for watching!
lol, hate to give you shit Wes, but the county here in Cowlitz is sealing the road and I'm trapped. want to take the '32 roadster out because the weather is gorgeous. but noooooooo, they gotta screw up the road. I don't know who the planner is for the county, but I'd like to kick him in the balls for doing this. they just spent a butt load of money two weeks ago painting new stripes on the road, now they are covering it up. smh. a couple years ago, they paved the roadway in front of my home, nice smooth looked great, a week later they graveled and sealed it. WTF???? have a good one, bud.
Haha well I'm sorry to hear that they ruined your joyride! Give it a bit of time and the road will be better than ever. Not sure why they would strip then chip over it, someone wasn't looking down the road, lol
Interesting... This might be a dumb question, but can this be done with regular roofing tar and pea gravel? I have a small behind my garage that is about 20' x 10'.... Could a person buy 5 gallon buckets of tar, heat it and then mix it with gravel and apply it with a shovel ? Or would it just make a sticky mess and bust apart over time?
As long as your expectations aren't very high, and the area isn't getting very much traffic, I don't see why not. But make sure you have a good solid base to go over, don't apply it over dirt, for example.
Chip seal went away for a little while cus governments didn't like the complaints about flying rock, but with the economy they have come back as a cheaper way to maintain roads. Broce brooms makes a sweeper that will pick up the excess stone to prevent breaking windshields.
Question: When the dump truck backs up to the rock spreader, does the spreader grab onto the truck and the driver of the truck puts it in neutral and the spreader just pulls the trucks? Thanks and awesome video!
I run the same type of chipper spreader at work. Of course we are trying to compete with outside companies at my city job to do good and under budget. I normally go 300-400 if there is a straight shot and i have good drivers. How do you guys do radius?
they did this on a highway out here in desert id been driving this route to job and in few weeks all gravel on side of road and I had 3 cracks on my windshield and pits on paint I think someone installed wrong-ya you drive down the road and its ding-ding-ding-ding.....
+Larry Carroll I think you don't know what you are talking about. Someone DID NOT install the job wrong! The gravel that doesn't stick to the tar will float off to the sides of the road. All you gotta do is slow down and the stones won't do as much damage.
At the slowest, we will run around 200 feet per minute. At the fastest, around 800 feet per minute (it's almost never practical to run this fast, though). Our average is about 300-400 feet per minute.
Where the hell is your spreader box's lever puller? He must've been taking a pee back at the last shot joint and the spreader box driver left without him, lol. Really you need a good lever puller especially for shoulders and transitions to open or close gates. Or to tell you when you're out of rock. That automatic belt switch crap probably gets full of dust and breaks all the time.....But I guess that's progress.
We often run a front man but the days of lever pullers are long gone haha. The automatics are actually quite resilient and reliable, at least with Etnyre equipment, which is all we run.
Thank you! Our cousin took this video during his summer off from school. He learned a lot and took an interest in the industry, working on the chip crew with us for a few years. Since college, he now has his engineering degree and works for Etnyre designing this very equipment. We are very proud of him.
The municipalities that write the contracts around here do not allow it...Not to mention, this self propelled chip spreader which is manufactured by Etnyre Co. in Oregon, IL makes the job turn out so nice, with little to no waste of aggregate, we wouldn't want to do it any other way. The spread hopper is variable width allowing adjustments on the move, all the up to 24 feet wide (full road width) spreading at once. However, We do at times use truck mounted spreaders on smaller projects under private contracts, they definitely have their uses. Thanks for watching!
in my 25 years driving dump and pup in construction with 12 years of that paving I never got to go chip sealing..The only thing I have not done...*Sigh*
