They're breaking up that old street of mine #1 by goodoleboy
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Captured 7/30/07, in front of my condo complex.
Okay, after a couple of days of posting flowers and a skull, we're back now to the real good stuff...heavy mobile equipment!
This is just one of the heavy duty machines employed by the paving company in preparation to repaving the road. There was even a big brother to this big guy somewhere around but I couldn't find it anywhere that day.
These people were really fast...it took about ten days to prepare the street -- a section which ran about .80 of a mile -- and just one day to pave it over, and they did an exquisite job of it. All they have to do now is white stripe it, and voila! Will look brand new!
And I'm surprised the photo came out this clear, considering all the dust in the air.
Thanks for the peek, and have a tremendous Thursday!
Comments (10)
BibbyBear
Well, if this were in the UK, we'd have lane closures and hundreds of cones for at least a five mile run up to the area in question and then it would be like that for at least 6 weeks and at the end of it, we'd have pot-holes within about three weeks of the surface being laid!!! An excellent capture of men at work and I especially love the dirt flying out of your "ripper-upper" in the top right section of the picture. Great shot Harry. xx
MrsLubner
A spitting metal dragon, eh? I have always loved to watch roads being repaired or put in. As a child it was fun to wait for the holes to get patched (not many streets were cemented but asphalt was the way to go!)and then run out and get a big ball of warm tar. Never mind the trouble we got into for getting it all over us. And whenever a construction crew was building a new house I was there from pouring the foundation to the laying of the last brick (most of the homes around us were brick or a combination of brick and wood.) I love this shot. Such new equipment! I remember when it was jackhammers and front end loaders, dump trucks and guys with shovels... A really nifty shot, Harry.
goodoleboy
MrsLubner: actually, jackhammers, front end loaders, dump trucks and guys with shovels were used on this project, so that stuff isn't obsolete.
TwoPynts
Hoo Rah! Those guys ARE fast...we need them to come work in FL, where this sort of thing seems to take forever. Nice action, Jackson!
mark.spooner
An interesting capture!
jocko500
wow that a machiny we need here. I never saw one like this. all they do here is rough up the road a little and some times not even that and just pour the new stuff down. then paint it. wonder why the road have pot holes lol. Oh they used asphalt and some times not even that but a thin coat of tar like stuff and they job is done.
auntietk
It takes forever up here. Every time it rains, they stop working. I'm glad you have a nice, pretty new road! That's so satisfying, isn't it?
tallpindo
My uncle set up an asphalt paving business in Alpena the home of Huron Portland Cement. It was before recycling of roads and he began with a roller and dump truck doing driveways and buying his cold mix from a vendor. My cousin worked for him for a while in that era and tried to start a union of just three employees. It's a family thing, rebellion. Whatever happened to paving blocks you could hurl or make baricades of?
elmurray
Well, isn't that a monster! A great shot of men at work with their mighty machinery, Harry! If this was in the UK I'm sure they'd be having a tea-break by now!!
Luka_30
I wish in my place thing go so swift. Nice scene from summer day in the town.