Paving 2.5 miles of county road with asphalt using Volvo Paver .
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My brother in law runs the paving crew that is paving the county road to my house. Go check in with them and see how asphalt paving is done.
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My dad worked for the Department of Highways before he retired. He started from the bottom and worked his way up to Acting District Manager (After the previous District Manager passed away). At one point when I was a kid, my dad was part of a crew that paved asphalt on the Highway. The asphalt is extremely hot and dangerous if you're not careful. A crew was putting pavement down on a street in front of some houses many years ago. A little girl saw them putting it down and thought it would be nice to be the first to step on the new road. One of the guys saw the girl running towards them wearing a dress...barefoot. The man yelled for her to stop, but she either didn't hear him or didn't care to listen. The guy ran through the asphalt to try and stop her. The girl jumped in with both feet and sank to her ankles. Thankfully, she was quickly snatched up by the worker. He ran full blast towards the small kiddy pool in the front yard to soak her feet. About this time, the mother, I believe, heard the girl screaming and went outside to see the guy dunking her feet in the water. The damage was done, her feet were red and covered in blisters. Some other guys in the work crew ran over with some kind of soap stuff that's designed to eat through the tar in the asphalt in case it was stuck to her skin. The asphalt is bad because it burns like lava. It adheres to your skin and continues to burn.
Josh Blount omg that's horrible
I know it's hot as we had a bit layed and it was still warm through the bottom of the shoes a couple hrs later
Not sure even if an adult have enough weight to sink up to knee in freshly laid asphalt. Sure sound fishy.
@@saukraya3254 She sank up to her ankles is what I was told. Though it may not have been that deep. She ran out where the guys were leveling out asphalt fresh out of the dump truck. It was still hot enough that the tar hadn't set the aggregate in place. I heard this story from my dad, who used to put asphalt down for the Department of Highways in West Virginia. He was acting district manager when he retired (previous district manager died of an aneurysm.) Fresh asphalt straight out of the truck is soft because the black tar stuff sets once it cools.
Here's a video of a crew pouring some asphalt for a driveway. It pours out like typical gravel, but it has whatever type of tar they use that coats the aggregate. If you jumped on that pile with one foot, you'd sink in quite a bit. Also, notice the steam coming off it. Not dust, steam. It's like a hot breath in the cold of winter...but you can see the guys are dressed for hot weather. It's got enough heat and moisture for steam to rise off of it. Extremely hot.
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Nevertheless, asphalt is usually a mixture of peable aggregate mix with binder (tar). A freshly laid can even support a steamroll, much less a human child, but still can burn the skin at 300 degrees.
Looks like a decent job.
I think the base is the most important part. Same thing if they do a lousy job in milling the old surface. If it has humps or dips, or unevenness side-to-side, the paver will just follow that surface. It's just like painting or wallpapering over unfinished drywall. You will still see (or feel) the defects as they will "telegraph" through.
Property value just went up😊
So did traffic!
i really enjoy watching this type of video. laying asphalt to me is like putting the finishing touch on a project, or almost finished. it just seems like a huge upgrade from the county dirt/gravel road.
Love the drone shots, awesome video!!
Thanks appreciate you watching
Great job thanks it was fun to tag along love the info!
This a paving crews dream job ,1 pass ,no manholes ,no curbs . Just a lot of backing up for the truck driver !
Crew my dad drove for wanted to go nonstop. 3 trucks minimum waiting on paver....it was crazy in the early 90s. Loved it tho. Sometimes they'd let me ride along on the paver. They had a blast that a teen was livid to learn about it and the engineering about road design.
How do.they.manage around manholes?
@@jbreezy101 They lay down a plate and pave right over them , and stop and dig them out .
My parent's neighborhood needs this asap. I always wonder about the cost and process to get a dirt road paved in a non-pubic road.
I did this job, screed operator for 18 yrs, I was also a foreman, started on the tamper,then the finish roller, then breakdown roller, then screedman. I miss it but don’t miss it at the same time. Lol
I can see that
Jeez dirt roads do still exist!
Thanks for sharing bud!
@Excavator_Farmer i hear brother i was just busting! Lol we got them up here in NY too!
Yup still a few around here
I love to watch paving! When they were paving my name thoroughfare in my neighborhood I had never seen so many dump trucks. There was one for raising the storm drains,they had five for milling, and six for paving. My road was not big enough to require a buggy, but they had mostly cat equipment except I think one roller was a Hom. It was red so I don’t know what company that is made by.
Alex Williamson's blind adventures HAMMs are orange.,lmost like GM Hugger Orange.
Awesome
Dirt Perfect I work for one of the biggest asphalt companies in the country. So I see em everyday. No Volvo’s though. We LOVE our CATs, Vögeles, HAMMs and Wirtgens.
Always nice to have paved roads! Wish we had it for the roads around our house!
Yes it is
Yes it is
Nothing like a dust free smooth road!
Loving it 😁
Man I love the smell of fresh asphalt !
Great video and drone footage
Thanks and thanks for watching
Finally! No more chips on the Yukon when I come to visit! Hooray!
Lol all good now 😁
In my county... some roads are paved with hot mix... especially those that run by the county officials homes and businesses. The remainder are chip and seal.
The next county south of us is mostly dirt roads... some don’t even get gravel! Nonetheless it comes in handy when you are navigating... if you’re headed south, you always know when the road turns to dirt, you’ve crossed County Line highway!
You know... there’s always something good mixed in with the bad!!!
Interesting to see close up. Thank You!
Thanks for watching
Just got laid off for winter. I wont miss asphalt or concrete for at least a month or 2
lol I bet not
Bituminous concrete is the correct name. They put binder down as a base coat. Done asphalt for a few years and didnt like it. The guys on the screws are your money makers. You are paid by sq ft not tonnage. If they can save an 1/8 inch on the whole job that's alot of money. I would definitely say stick with concrete, I did lol. Great video!
No they don't put a binder down. The binder, or tack coat is only used if you are putting hot mix on top of existing asphalt. I work for the county so we don't make money on jobs, but each job is cost driven. If you break it down, the cost is per ton for us. When we contract the work out, the costs are broken down by both hourly and tonnage since the equipment and labor is based on hours and the material is based on tonnage. When you go to the batch plant you don't tell them you have 60 sq ft to do, you order your mix by the ton. One ton of hot mix will cover 80 sq ft at a depth of 2 inches.
@@mikel9567 binder is not a spray coat. Binder is a bigger rock asphalt to build the road up and give more stability to it. It doesn't seal as well, look as good, or drive on very well. Surface coat has smaller rock, seals very well when compacted correctly and makes a great driving surface. As far as being the one buying or making the the asphalt yes it is by the ton. When it is bid thru the feds and my state, it is by area. Same way concrete and most other things are bid. They don't care if you use 50k tons of asphalt for a job that only pays for 40k ton. State, county, and cities buy what they need by the ton and is alot different than bid jobs.
Does this ever bring back memories when I sat in the operator’s seat of a Cedarapids paver, followed by a Huber finishing roller. All was good until we rented the roller to a town’s DPW. They managed to strip the gears coming down an incline. Given the amount of traffic I’ve seen in past videos, I thing the current wisdom today is the chip seal the road, but I really don’t know how long that lasts.
Derby Mayor onsite checkin out the work...... 👍🇺🇸
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Interesting video Mike, the folks that pave get my respect, hot, dirty, and that permeating smell of hot asphalt, I'll pass.
Great drone work, nice and steady, you have a fine touch for flying and filming like a BOSS now! 5 stars buddy. Work safe, stay warm.
Doug@ the "ranch"
Thanks Doug and I agree a job i would not Want
Thank you for taking us along. I think I could smell the warm asphalt up my nose. They could have made a practice run on your driveway; just to test things out in the area is all I meant. Are they going further than they went or? Thought that was a good video to show, thanks! Sonny (CT)
Thanks for the comment sonny
Where I live, they do 2 layers of 2 inch asphalt, a few months of delay between applying the 2nd layer. This helps prevent cracking and dips and whatnot.
No, it does not help prevent anything.
Asphalt it thermoplastic, cold in 1 day, you can do the 2nd layer next day.
but you must keep ca. 180-160°C temp. from mixed to process.
and you wait too long age with oxide.
and the mix must be correct.
therefore, you wait on second day.
the most important: you cannot build over mud.
even worst the second layer has more time on air.
age with oxide.
@@derlenin7301 I'm just saying what I was told and what I've seen.
ahh yes
hmm the problem isn't asphalt
there isn't only one thing standing in the way
If you leave one layer for months then surface then you have to clean it and tack coat it, which costs more money. Also if you are doing two layers they could well be different mixes, first layer for strength second more for durability and skid resistance.
@@johnclements6614 I do remember them sweeping and tack coating it.
My city only has 2 seasons, dig and pave... because of that, they love to take their time and waste money on that stuff. There has never been a time where there wasn't several roads under construction. Also, I doubt slightly different mixes make that big of a difference. After all, it isn't like concrete.
I am just excited as yall about this! No more Dirt Perfect sliding sideways around the curve throwing me outta the seat! 😂😜
Road looks pretty through the woods with the new black top
Always interesting to see the difference in how things are done across the various states. One thing I’ve noticed from your videos is that your roads seem much narrower than what I’m accustomed to. Is that an artifact from the camera or are they actually as narrow as the look on the videos. What is the protocol for passing by someone, who takes the ditch? I’ll have to go back and check but I don’t remember seeing many center lines in your videos. Anyway thanks again for the interesting video.
Roads are 18 no problem passing
I done that one summer , it’s definitely a hot job.
One of my hs classmates owned an asphalt paving company.
He died over a decade ago with cancer. I wonder if breathing those fumes contributed?
I wonder, my old classmate just died of cancer a year ago. He was only 40 yet had been doing that stuff for about 20 years.
Especially now with covid good PPE should be standard for these people, stuff in these roads is worse than cigs over time.
I also have an internet friend whose son died from blood cancer in his 30s.
He was a heating oil delivery guy who frequently splashed fuel oil on his skin.
Benzene is one of the suspected culprits.
Iggie Dalrymple my dad has been in the business for 20 years and thank to god i can say he doesn’t have any typenof cancer in his lungs
Sometimes there will be a rubber tire roller in between the steel rollers. It just depends on the specifications by whoever paid for the work.
This is true
Thanks for setting the guy straight in the tack 😁
Good video 👍 nice paving job
Thanks
That was prob binder mix. Base has a lot of 57 gravel or 56 depending on what y’all call it in your area. Surface is just river sand and man made sand and the oils they use for blacktop. This is what I do for a living. Drive a Tri axle hauling blacktop
Excellent video
Thanks tim
Nice change up. Wouldn't want to maintenance on that paver
Me either
hope you enjoy driving on this new sealed road. no more dust and mud
It been awesome
Nice paving job and just a good thing they had you looking after them! Lol! I think our county guys told me it's about 40 grand per mile to pave.
About 50k a mile here
Hawaii asphalt is about 10x that
@@zhiggins808 ya, like everything else!!
Could have used 2” of fiber reinforced asphalt with the same result, crack elimination and longevity.
I love blacktop love love love. I love driving on it ilove the smell of it. Smells like money. I live near a black top factory like to give it a hug
I have never heard it called a gate we call them "wings" on the top side of Indiana .
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Gate here in mid southern indiana, down round bloomington they use weird lutes to, they don't have a lip too kick anything it's for like teeth on one side and flat on the other, damn long pole to.
Great video
Thanks
Enjoy your random stuff buddy , thanks.
Thanks Gary
Hi
Here where I live (Portugal) the guys put previously a black liquid stuff (asphalt?).
They say that it bonds better with the gravel.
Say hi to captain kleenman(did I spell right?).
Keep the good work
luis santos They do the same thing in the UK. It’s a bond coat of thinner sticker bitumen that aids tar on tar cohesion.
It would not work on the dusty stone road.
Yup and will do thanks for watching guys
Where's Chris from Let's Dig 18? He is the Volvo guy! Its looks like binder they put down. Its tougher asphalt then top mix.
The smell of asphalt reminds me of Campbells chicken noodle O’s
Nothing like the smell of diesel and asphalt in the morning. Wonder if the big company that bought them is old castle materials. They bought all the paving companies here in Wv
Evan Deorous Diesel is actually very bad for asphalt laying or any Tar-macadam for that matter.
It softens the bitumen, and is far more likely to strip off the stone and lay in the lorries floor.
evan, im in NJ, they got us a few years ago....the queens taking over.lol
I waas talking about the equipment and trucks
Evan Deorous yup me too. They bought us out, quarry’s trucks etc.. they own a lot here in the states
Yup old castle it is 🥺
Better than Dirty Jobs episode. 👍
looks like there are a several spots of course asphalt, I'd attribute that to poor batch material from the plant. The plant should've added added a bit more fines to the mix.
Good luck with that they suck to be honest but all we got around here
Drum plants are more desirable.than Batch plants. Material is screened so it's not always perfect
Very interesting 👌
The Mayor getting things done lol
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In Wisconsin a good day on a highway can be up to 6500 ton.
Same here with shuttle buggy
Tell them to adjust those extentions. Drives me nuts.
Gate height is too low
Volvo Paver, make me roads, country roads take me home
The road I lived on was so rough you couldn’t go more than 5 mph, my dad blew a shock and everything, this is in the adirondacks in upstate ny, they tore up the road and had it dirt for 2 years because I was better a smooth dirt road than what it was, when they got the money, they paved it over, already some cracks though haha
Were you the local inspector for the job ??
Yes sir 😁
Now you need to have those guys do your driveway!!
That would be nice 😁
Places in the south where I've worked the local government requires tack to be put on the rock before its paved.
They don’t here
@@DirtPerfect I didn't see it on the rock.
Because they don’t spec it here
How manyiles on this road did u guys do
12
Mike, it's called bitumunus concrete. Did a lot of paving years ago
Ask thanks tony
Where im from if your laying it down on dirt you usually get the mix with mire gravel in it for stability
Interesting
I hauled asphalt in south carolina you talk about hot i felt sorry for those guys on that paver and shoveling it was hot and I had air conditioning there aint no way I could work around one of them
That's crazy how still you're drone flies and can video great shot love the videos
Thanks
Why no tack coat? I helped do this a lifetime ago, is it new technology?
No need not a repave
Don't know anything about blacktop that's my story and I am sticking to it.
Lol me to
Ashphalt bound concrete
Paved in front of the mayors driveway first lol
That’s right 😁
The local big business just paved our road and they did the road 3 miles down from my house and both roads got a bumpy feeling to them. Something like it feels like a unbalanced tire but it’s not the tire because once you get off the new to the old it goes away
This one turned out pretty good 😁
I think there is something wrong with one of there machines causing this. It messes with things. I was trying to sell a truck and someone was test driving it and thought something was wrong with the truck. I said make a turn and it will go away
Wow that sounds really bad
The sad thing is they are the biggest company in the area.
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@@timetable620 If they did it with dump trucks, if the drivers bump the paver it will leave little indentations and will have a washboard effect.
Have you ever heard of country paving cost about half what regular asphalt paving does . Lots of back road in Virginia are done that way by the Virginia Dept of Transportation plus they hold up really well for not high traveled highways.
No have not might look into it
@@DirtPerfect I know first they lay tack oil then a mix of liquid asphalt and gravel then roll it they do this multiple times until the thickness they need. I am sure you could get the info from VDOT in Virginia
@@wolfpacva Chip and seal
@@nick21614 yes i know
How long did this project take??
Two days
Enjoyed the video, two jobs in July I would not want..paving crew and a hot tar roofer!
How much would a dumptruck load of asphault cost roughly?
1000 - 2000$ according to what mix you get and region of the country
@@dewaynebryant1483 not cheap!
How thick do you lay down the asphalt to get the right compressed thickness?
This is referring to an existing road (mill.& Repave lane)
1/4 inch per inch
@@DirtPerfect so if you want it 1" thick you lay down 1.25" or if you want it 2" thick you lay down 2.5"?
In a lot of your videos I see tri axle dump trucks, are quad axles not very common?
Some but not as many
so is the crown built into the scree and it is adjustable?
Yes
Yes, and actually the gates or extensions themselves can also break over. Ain't much you can't do with a asphalt screed, especially carlsons
i found the 2nd 120D its a 2012 40 inch bucket(ditching) 30,000lbs.,pumbed-clean straight machine. way below ur budget--$69,900. its at G.Stone in Middlebury, VT. website is www.gstonecommercial.com. i will continue looking for the other one-i swear i saw 2 under 40 grand. would make one heck of a road trip for the Mack with u and captain along to keep ya company. uns couple tag team out and back. ha! bad weather coming-good time to fly in and go looking. lol
Just curious, what did this project run to pave per mile? Total for asphalt and labor?
Not for sure wasn’t one of my jobs
Nice looking job guys and girls where ya located I have in va
This is what I do for my bread and butter
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Fun Video
Thanks
They need a shuttle buggy so they don't have to stop every time that paver stops it leaves a bump in the road
Talked about that in the video
@@DirtPerfect I heard that after I finished watching lol
Dot magnets!!!!
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I’m curious what that job cost the homeowner.
County road tax dollars
Asphalt is the worse smelling stuff on an empty stomach
Whats the cost of a road that length?
Not for sure
I have watched paving crews in 115 degrees in California they had to stop because it was to hot
Interesting
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Awesome
hi sir i am Bahrain job road roller working 8 year asphalt work i going sir licences ok
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I ran a roller on a asphalt crew hot an boring.
I would think so
If you want to know how good of a job the asphalt guys do, just drive down it at 60 miles an hour! If it rattles your teeth you know it’s a lousy job, if your coffee cup stays on the dashboard without losing any coffee it’s probably a good job. 😝 LoL
came from muddyfeet tv
Awesome and welcome to the channel
Yep, big day in Derby.....Your property taxes are going up. Lol
Tell them to adjust their screed.haha
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Tghat volvo asphalt spreader would sure make letsdig proud wouldn't it mike. I didnt even kniw volvo made paving equipment. I gave done asphalt work and its a hot dirty stinky ass job. Its only as physical as you make it though. I hardly ever did any manual labor. I usually went and jumped on the roller before somebody else did and it turned out nobody but me was interested in doing it
How much would something like this cost!? Lol
Not for sure county job
they must have money to burn, know one in the country gets there long drive way paved, in fact not even the city slickers that move out to the country and build there home wight at the set back from there property line that is permited witch not counting the road allowence is 10 feet, the only place you see sort oc country living but it is still in the city that bave there drive ways are doctors an lawyer, and at that it is just wide enough to get there fancy costly car down, and just the first layer of asphalt witch is only 1.5" witch the contractor makes it look like it is a lot thicker as they flare the edge out, but cut a hole in the center and 1st layer is 1.5" but looks by the edge 3"were the norn is 2 layers 3" minimum, to pave a parking lot 40 x 50 is $10,000 that dont include any prep work or if gravel is needed, this paving alone most likely 100k or more, dont be taking any heavy trucks down it, they dont use the same mix as they do on roads and high ways, roads an high ways are always layed down in 2 if not 3 layers, it is different, no 3/8 stone, just sand in it for starters, i use to run an asphalt plant, hell the town ships dont even pave out country roads, once you leave the class one or 2nd dary high ways your on dirt..but gets graded by a piss poor operator, if you can even call them an operator, they plow the gravel in the ditches, witch makes work every 3 yours re ditching and adding more gaval to the roads, plus they just scim the top to get some dirt to cover over the pot holes for a day, they dont cut the pot holes out, like a real grader operator would do
that's one hella long sentence dude.
I’m surprised they didn’t mill or tack coat it, I thought it was a requirement everywhere
Can’t mill gravel
@@DirtPerfect ohhh I thought it was really old asphalt, sometimes asphalt looks pale when it’s really old
I work for the county road department and we pave several miles of roads each year, though most of our paving is sent out to contractors. That lady needs to be kicked off the crew, she was useless. Where were their rakers? We run a minimum of 4 laborers on the ground, 2 with lutes and 2 with shovels. Never seen one of our crews tater a mailbox while paving either. Usually we tater them while pulling shoulders or mowing. Saw the Superior broom in the background, we have the same broom. Not a big fan of them.
So your roads are narrow 18????,ours our way wider then that lol
lol wide enough for us
I do not see any tack on the road before the paver.
best paying work, $5000.00 per foot.
Never heard of pricing by the square foot. Always by the ton.
The guys riding on the back of the paver must put terrible stress on their lungs. Nice looking finish. I have to wonder how much longer a petroleum base road covering will be allowed. There must be some hit on the environment.