Worlds smallest tar paver

[bobbi o]

[Dave_L]

What a useful machine.

Just imagine the metreage of footpaths you could do in a day with that! Awesome! I want one.

Bigger areas, as in the last pic, you'd have to work pretty quickly to come back to the hot joints, otherwise you'd end up with loadsa nasty looking joints between each rip.

[bobbi o]

What a useful machine.

Just imagine the metreage of footpaths you could do in a day with that! Awesome! I want one.

Bigger areas, as in the last pic, you'd have to work pretty quickly to come back to the hot joints, otherwise you'd end up with loadsa nasty looking joints between each rip.

yeah,dont think its meant for an area as big as that.

30k a pop,fully loaded!

[Dave_L]

These american construction/paving pictures - why is there ALWAYS a bobcat in the background of any picture you see!!!????

The Americans love their skid-steers, all you gotta do is watch these mega-movers on SKY - where they move houses, there are bobcats everywhere!!!!

[bobbi o]

the yanks dont like doing anything by hand-they have a machine that'll do even the smallest task.skid with a sweeper collector, 6in1 bucket,forks and patch planer on every job.

apparently you can lay 40t of wearing and up to 150t of base a day with the "smallest paver in the world" ,to a max width of 1900mm. selling well apparently.

compare the vogele super 800,similair screed width for 75k and its maybye not a bad buy.

[Dave_L]

I could imagine doing a few residential driveways with that paver in a day!

Get them all prepp'd up beforehand and go on a massive laying mission the following day. Sounds good in theory doesn't it?!

"Wearing Course" - Oh how I hate that term!!!!!!!!! :p

[Tony McC]

While the more labour-averse Merkins might love their Bobcats when it comes to laying mac, machine installation of concrete block paving is the other way around.

I watched a gang laying block in Oakland Port a couple of years ago and alongside the Robotec installation machine, they had a team of 4 Mexican labourers swarming around each newly placed cluster, inserting interlock blocks, re-aligning, and re-jigging.

Sort of defeated the object of machine lay, it seemed to me!

[Dave_L]

We've always wanted to affix a screed to a digger bucket/arm to drag/screed along a footpath to speed up footpath laying......not sure how effective it would be, though.

Especially when there are covers etc.

[flowjoe]

While the more labour-averse Merkins might love their Bobcats

Watched a gang today in leafy Cheshire cutting back a grass verge as it had the nerve to encroach onto the pavement by a massive 75mm (possible 50mm deep)

One guy in a JCB 3CX alongside the kerb reaching over said footpath and cutting back the verge with a ditch bucket.

Second guy in tractor unit with large trailor backing up to the JCB awaiting the mother load.

And yes third guy was banksman. No shovel, no brush and possible one eye open. (Hard to tell !)

It should of taken one guy, one spade, one barrow half a day. No traffic management, no noise and less Derv..

Worlds gone mad !

[Suggers]

Joe - you should be writing a weekly column for one of the Nationals.....

Detached, funny, slightly cynical, building, knows his stuff sort of thing.
Just a thought....
Suggs.