Road plannings

[Antony Holmes]

New screener bucket worked well with the plannings this week out of 260 ton of plainings i got about 20 of over size so the cost price of my plainning worked out at £6.50 per ton delivered i gave the over size stuff to a naburing farmer, it took me about 15 - 20 hours to do the screening so with that.
now when talking to the farmer he was explaining that i should be spraying gas oil on the finished surface apparently it will help it stick.
a couple of points
1. I assume this may have been a thing to do when gas oil was 9.9p per lt but not at 150p per lt if you can get it or nearly £2.00 for wight like now( or is this a thing ?)
2. is there anything that would help it to stick?

 

[Smiffy]

New screener bucket worked well with the plannings this week out of 260 ton of plainings i got about 20 of over size so the cost price of my plainning worked out at £6.50 per ton delivered i gave the over size stuff to a naburing farmer, it took me about 15 - 20 hours to do the screening so with that.
now when talking to the farmer he was explaining that i should be spraying gas oil on the finished surface apparently it will help it stick.
a couple of points
1. I assume this may have been a thing to do when gas oil was 9.9p per lt but not at 150p per lt if you can get it or nearly £2.00 for wight like now( or is this a thing ?)
2. is there anything that would help it to stick? View attachment 37841

Diesel deteriorates the bitumen it makes it leach short term but does nothing long term. If you really wanted to make it stick then bitumen emulsion would work.

 

[bobthebuilder]

biggest roller you can get ,and on the hottest day we get

 

[Antony Holmes]

Diesel deteriorates the bitumen it makes it leach short term but does nothing long term. If you really wanted to make it stick then bitumen emulsion would work.

biggest roller you can get ,and on the hottest day we get

i was lucky with the weather on this one.
just trying to find out from the collective if i could improve things for the next one

 

[bobthebuilder]

i was lucky with the weather on this one.
just trying to find out from the collective if i could improve things for the next one

i rooled the crap out of some on a drive awhile back .on nd off it all weekend.top was dusty but underneath went proper solid

 

[V8Druid]

Fuchs Plantohyd 40N bio oil makes 'em bind like they've just been laid hot ... but ain't cheap ... the odd bits here and there, where I've had the odd leak ..(from the leg gland I still haven't done), have gone off literally like it was hot laid - totally solid ... last barrel I bought was on a par / just above recent white prices per litre ... it doesn't need a lot though TBF

 

[Monkeybusiness]

Fuchs Plantohyd 40N bio oil makes 'em bind like they've just been laid hot ... but ain't cheap ... the odd bits here and there, where I've had the odd leak ..(from the leg gland I still haven't done), have gone off literally like it was hot laid - totally solid ... last barrel I bought was on a par / just above recent white prices per litre ... it doesn't need a lot though TBF

I had an old cherry picker apparently full of bio hydraulic oil (that’s what the sticker said, I’d never put any in it) that burst a hose and dropped 40 plus litres of oil onto some planings. They went off well, but that patch get very soft and melty every time it gets hot (4 years later!).

 

[Regy53]

bit of diesel on top (not loads) will help it. Spray it from a weed killer bottle thing.

We laid some last week and rolled it with a big roller. This week most of it was binded

 

[diggerjones]

 

[Regy53]

What are you paying for them atm? 350 a load here

 

[V8Druid]

I had an old cherry picker apparently full of bio hydraulic oil (that’s what the sticker said, I’d never put any in it) that burst a hose and dropped 40 plus litres of oil onto some planings. They went off well, but that patch get very soft and melty every time it gets hot (4 years later!).

too much oil in one spot'd be my guess

 

[Monkeybusiness]

too much oil in one spot'd be my guess

Definitely. I keep meaning to dig it up but it only goes soft once or twice a year!

 

[V8Druid]

Definitely. I keep meaning to dig it up but it only goes soft once or twice a year!

mixing it in with a lot more' ll do the job

 

[DaveDCB]

Had a customer fill a hired in rollers water tank with diesel and spray it on like that… Silly sod!

 

[Hg2702]

Had a customer fill a hired in rollers water tank with diesel and spray it on like that… Silly sod!

There’s a note on most of the rollers around here about not doing that

 

[Gecko]

They went off well, but that patch get very soft and melty every time it gets hot (4 years later!).

Wait until it's hot and sticky, then spread some kitty litter or sawdust on it to leach out the lighter fractions.