We work with the planing crews quite a bit, it never ceases to amaze me how fast them machines can plane out & load an eight wheeler. We normally only take coated material in to lay after planing is finished but sometimes the job involves planings going back to a coating plant to be recrushed & coated into re-cycled base materials so then we sometimes get roped into loading both ways. It sound Ok but our lorries aren't built to be loaded fast over the rear bulkhead & I prefer not to do it.
The last one I loaded off had me away faster than one of our quarry loading shovels & he loads me in two full buckets plus top up.
We tend to see Tetlaw, Jet & NRP on our patch. I guess they all take each other over to make the job go round.
A firm I used to do a lot of work for runs chain trenchers & rock wheel saws. They use the same teth as the planers. The things are amazing to watch.
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not long after gaining my class one ,i did a night on a iveco 8 legger ,i think it was a 86 D plate with the air cooled engine
it was on the M25 under a planner ,a bit of an eye opener especialy when they made a gap in the cones and we shot across all the lanes to the hardshoulder the other side instead of going up the M40 and back down to have it dug out by a duck and place in the french drain ready for the hardshoulder to be used as a lane
it was on the M25 under a planner ,a bit of an eye opener especialy when they made a gap in the cones and we shot across all the lanes to the hardshoulder the other side instead of going up the M40 and back down to have it dug out by a duck and place in the french drain ready for the hardshoulder to be used as a lane
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Hey BB who was the company running those trenchers? i dont suppose you have any pics anywhere?
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I was sat waiting to tip Asphalt on a job last week, we had to wait for the planer to finish. The machine was huge & was loading an eight wheeler as it planed the road. The lorry never stood still & was loaded in a few seconds. The road went from old surface to being planed swept srayed & re-laid in a few minutes.
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