While AsphaltPro Magazine supports cautious and safe asphalt paving and pavement maintenance practices at all times, we also recognize that things can go wrong. Not all crews get all the details right all the time. At the bottom of this note, we have a link to a serious article about staging equipment properly, but here’s a “holiday” list of the top five reasons your pavement repair foreman might want to take Halloween off.
Number 5. The tack wagon showed up at ambient temperature. As he suspected, the foreman finds a jiggly gel of material inside, not unlike Slimer from the “Ghostbusters” franchise. “We can fill the holes without it,” a laborer shouts from the back of the hotbox.
Number 4. At the back of the hotbox, a second laborer says, “Not with this chunk.” His buddy says in bewilderment, “How is this possible? The thermostat reads 500 degrees.”
Number 3. A new worker is attempting to clean yesterday’s caked-up shovel with what smells strongly of diesel…while an unmanned plate compactor vibrates past him.
Number 2. The utility mill operator has just backed his own machine off the lowboy, barely missing a vehicle that’ll have to be towed before work can begin, and announces, “Hey, look! Only knocked four teeth off it this time!”
Number 1. The poor foreman returns to his work truck, hoping to start his day over, to find the customer at his driver-side door. “Could you put a couple speed bumps in this other parking lot today? I mean, since you’re already here.”
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