I have actually worked on that crusher at CTSA in Austin. The Plant Manager over there said it can crush boulders up to 2 tons into road base in mere seconds. Also from when the rock goes into the crusher, sorting, processing, and washing all the way to out the door is roughly a 15-20 mins. Love the videos y’all produce and it’s good to know I work on cool stuff! 6:14
That graphic says it all for people originally from the south. All these folks keep coming from high priced states and drive our cost of living through the roof. Here in NC it’s just as bad. So sad.
Here in Texas, especially in Central Texas. Most of the soil is hard rock (limestone), plus most of the truckers are independent owners. So they carry a variety of material. You might haul limestone bolders out of a construction job site and haul back crushed base. Then you might go to another job site and pick up ripped up concrete with heavy rebar in it. Then if it's raining, and no work. Some guys might haul heavy scrap metal to the port of Houston or to the steel mills. Most aluminum trailers you see here only carry sand and small sized gravel to concrete producers.
Texas road base looks like delicious chunky peanut butter when wet. Too bad you didnt get to a high rise project site, where they dig a massive city block 100ft down for the parking garage.
@@truckingswe I imagine down in south tx (near Fredericksburg) there's granite, and there's a couple quarries I've seen between austin and Dallas near some dried up river banks that get river rock. Then there's coal country in central east Texas. West Texas and south tx has a lot of sand pits (used for frac sand). Lots of lime for around here too.
Honestly though, TXDOT is starting to prefer foamed bitumen for the sub base, as it's a cheaper/superior solution than milling and filling. And the base is usually pretty good around Austin west of I35 (~2-6ft down is solid limestone)
Aaron Witt is the Garandthumb of construction
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I have actually worked on that crusher at CTSA in Austin. The Plant Manager over there said it can crush boulders up to 2 tons into road base in mere seconds. Also from when the rock goes into the crusher, sorting, processing, and washing all the way to out the door is roughly a 15-20 mins. Love the videos y’all produce and it’s good to know I work on cool stuff! 6:14
That is the classic definition of Texas pea gravel
Great job explaining!!!!
need more behind the scenes. you really should be making 10+ minute videos... not for us of course, but for the algo! :D
In this episode Aaron is on the road.
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Get it? ON the road. Ha ha, how punny! 😁😁😁
Oh man, I wish I knew you where next door to me. My quarry is right next door.
That graphic says it all for people originally from the south. All these folks keep coming from high priced states and drive our cost of living through the roof. Here in NC it’s just as bad. So sad.
Amazing..
Can anybody tell me why those steel half pipe trailers are so common down there? I’m used to aluminum straight trucks and dump trailers
Here in Texas, especially in Central Texas. Most of the soil is hard rock (limestone), plus most of the truckers are independent owners. So they carry a variety of material. You might haul limestone bolders out of a construction job site and haul back crushed base. Then you might go to another job site and pick up ripped up concrete with heavy rebar in it. Then if it's raining, and no work. Some guys might haul heavy scrap metal to the port of Houston or to the steel mills. Most aluminum trailers you see here only carry sand and small sized gravel to concrete producers.
@@79noel very interesting, great way to keep busy with one trailer. Thank you for your reply!
Texas road base looks like delicious chunky peanut butter when wet. Too bad you didnt get to a high rise project site, where they dig a massive city block 100ft down for the parking garage.
Do they juse limeston for road base? Wow no wonder the trucks only have total weight of 37metric tons.
Yes, limestone and sand is about the only thing quarried and mined around Austin
@@nathanschneider8586 So no granit or porfyr rocks.
@@truckingswe I imagine down in south tx (near Fredericksburg) there's granite, and there's a couple quarries I've seen between austin and Dallas near some dried up river banks that get river rock. Then there's coal country in central east Texas. West Texas and south tx has a lot of sand pits (used for frac sand). Lots of lime for around here too.
Honestly though, TXDOT is starting to prefer foamed bitumen for the sub base, as it's a cheaper/superior solution than milling and filling. And the base is usually pretty good around Austin west of I35 (~2-6ft down is solid limestone)
It's crazy how big their trucks are for only 36metric tons
I shall be third sitting in a loader!
i live in llano alot of bbq round here
If you drove through austin and didn't go to terry blacks and get the spicy bbq sauce, you haven't had bbq
Sir how about the life styl of the worker?
I just sold all my equipment and got out of Land clearing. If you come to Tampa let me know I’ll introduce you to some hitters
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