Coloured tarmac driveway

[Suggers]

brilliant bobbi o - that takes the biscuit for the most hideous conglomeration I've ever seen - where is it?

[lutonlagerlout]

a bit harsh there suggers
its a crazy golf course,what would you expect?
LLL :;):

[flowjoe]

Flow: did you try the plant in Salford for red mac? They used to do it there - it was never very good, not as good as Halkyn, but for small quantities it was damned handy.

I think we ended up running to Leicester for the red stuff.

This was a long time ago, maybe late 80s early 90s, the good old days when you could buy `cut back` from Mathers & Ellis at Trafford Park or Dodgesons at Stockport



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[Dave_L]

4x4's with large trailers can often be seen at one of the local tarmac plants - so aslong as the trailer/truck is big enough to carry the load and the load is covered then I would say quarries/plants are still willing to load.

Better work quick with an uninsulated body though!

[Tony McC]

The red mac from Leicestershire is amongst the best stuff - it uses the red Mountsorrel granite as the agg, so even when it wears, it looks red.

A lot of plants have clamped down on just anyone rolling up with a trailer or small tipper to collect a tonne or two of mac. It helps limit the devastation caused by the itinerant surfacing cowboys.

[Dave_L]

Good, I'm glad to hear it, that has been a bone of mine for ages. Stop the supply and the problem will go away. SIMPLE!

[flowjoe]

We used to run in for a tonne here and a half tonne there for patching small excavations, and as mentioned we could use cut back for a time, even on highways stuff.

When they clamped down on that we had to go direct to the quarry/plant and bits would fall off the van as the mother load landed on the back of the P100 pick up.

A couple of plants would drop the mix it into a loading bucket and then into the pick up but when the buckets were replaced they went all precious about them and we had to go under the chute.

Seen some funny stuff under the chutes when the lads havn`t lined the vans up correctly

[lutonlagerlout]

my first day for "big jerry" involved driving a 3 tonner with airbrakes,and reversing under such a chute,needles to say i failed and left half a tonne laying on the floor
i knew then the little black stones were not for me :;):
LLL