Got the chance to watch some equipment cross the road. Decided it might make a cool gif.
What say you?
Larry P
That chOnders flat land... You ain't at home are you?
To run over the surveyor's stakes!
Larry,
That is pretty cool. I have never seen a contractor put down something to protect the road.
Jimmy
An old piece of conveyor belt work's even better.
i would bet you lunch that your were in Robeson County, NC on SR 2104 about 3 miles east of town
It ain't a party...until a track hoe shows up
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> i would bet you lunch that your were in Robeson County, NC on SR 2104 about 3 miles east of town
They were crossing 7th Street Road just east of Lumberton.
As for the stuff protecting the road, makes total sense to me. They put down sheets of plywood, throw some old tires on top of that. After the equipment is across the road, they remove the tires and use the plywood to scrap any dirt off the road. Very slick way to manage the process and it takes very little time for the whole thing to happen.
Larry P
Why did the track hoe cross the road? = excavator
Up here we call those things excavators 🙂
Why did the track hoe cross the road? = excavator
I thought that you were going to tell us the track hoe was going to the little gray house on the other side of the road?!?!?!
To meet the track john :-O
LOL when I first read this I thought it said "Why did the trashy hoe cross the road?" I was like LARRY doesn't talk like this!!!!! :-O B-)
That's interesting, btw. :-$ How come they use those rubber tires to drive over??
Keeps the Grousers from damaging the asphalt road surface. State highway dept wanted all who cross with a crawler to do the same, I didn't because it was safer not to block the hwy with tires when I could not do it quickly alone nor have flagman slowing traffic. When I needed to cross with my D6, I picked my times when the asphalt was not soft or brittle and did any steering changes before getting on the highway, and I waited until I was off of it to make any more turns, tracks sliding sideways will leave marks in asphalt.
jud
> Keeps the Grousers from damaging the asphalt road surface. State highway dept wanted all who cross with a crawler to do the same, I didn't because it was safer not to block the hwy with tires when I could not do it quickly alone nor have flagman slowing traffic. When I needed to cross with my D6, I picked my times when the asphalt was not soft or brittle and did any steering changes before getting on the highway, and I waited until I was off of it to make any more turns, tracks sliding sideways will leave marks in asphalt.
> jud
Ahhh ok...makes sense. The trash truck that comes up our hill left a bunch of perfectly lined scrapes in the asphalt that go all the way down the hill when he had on the snow chains during last years big snowstorm. The city has never filled them in. 😐
I've never seen that on roads, but I've seen it on a private crossing of the CN Rail mainline right close to Edmonton here...