Equipment Maintenance

Before the economic uncertainties of 2008, increasing productivity was often accomplished by upgrading to the largest machine your budget could support, and then using smaller machines to perform other tasks around the worksite. Consider: a complex conveyor system or one massive wheel loader with a high-capacity bucket moves aggregate from points A, B and C […]

In 1984, construction of the south section of John Young Parkway, a major collector roadway, was initiated to provide access to Interstate 4, northward access to Orange County, interlocal streets, businesses and residents. Throughout the years, the road has been widened by adding turn lanes and extra lanes to accommodate increased traffic capacity stemming from […]

Brent Loutzenhiser, owner of sealcoating tank manufacturer Seal-Rite, vividly remembers cleaning his old sealcoating tanks back when he worked at his father’s sealcoating company. “The first tank we used didn’t have rubber wipers, so we’d have to get inside the tank to clean it,” he said. “Getting inside a tank is a nasty job.” “What […]

Casey Greinermiller never set out to be in the asphalt industry. It wasn’t until he took a summer job at RS Asphalt Maintenance, Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, between school years studying fine arts at Kutztown University that he began to consider it as a career option. Art and asphalt may seem two completely different industries, but that’s […]

Whether you lay down tack prior to paving or you spread a pretty sealcoat to lengthen the life of a community’s roadways, the spraying equipment you use requires routine maintenance to stay in good condition. Any buildup of tack, emulsion, sealant, paint or other material used on the job can turn into a bad day […]

Have you had trouble getting smoothness on a mill and fill? Look to the milling crew’s best practices. It’s shameful when a county or agency decides to merely place a thin overlay on a badly cracked concrete pavement, but it’s also a shame if a subcontractor does a poor job of preparing a milled surface […]