Grandpa, tell me bout the good ole days............

[MossRoad]

How many times you haul equipment into dat plant Mr Google?

Is the information I posted incorrect?

 

[Steppenwolfe]

How many times you haul equipment into dat plant Mr Google?

Now THAT I uderstood... :laughing:

 

[turnkey4099]

I believe there's been some experimenting with mixing ground up used tires in with the asphalt. I'm not sure of the success or if anybody is still doing it, but no doubt some TBN member knows more about it than I do. :thumbsup:

I don't recall where it was but Might have been Washington state. They used ground up tires in a fill across a gully. It caught fire... This would have been back aroun 70 something.

 

[turnkey4099]

From:
Rubber road took a wrong turn; Shredded tires that caught fire in Garfield County are hauled back to where they came from | Northwest | lmtribune.com


SPOKANE -- It sounded like the perfect solution.

State and county officials reasoned that shredding 1.4 million used tires for use in road construction would alleviate a potential fire hazard in the storage yards where they were being kept.

The tire-chip material went into a road bed near Pomeroy in Garfield County late last year.

But within weeks, it began to smolder, emitting smoke and even flames at the road surface. Removal cost millions and the shredded tires are now buried in a landfill a few miles from where they were stored before the failed experiment.

Federal highway officials have ordered a national moratorium on shredded-tire highway projects until someone can explain what went awry in Washington.

Thanls. I hadn't read throuight the thread before I made my post.

 

[user.69169]

I'll take Globull Warming for $500 Alex.

Had to have been some Army Crotch of Enginitwits involvement in dat project.
Dey could hold a press conference and splain how dat was exactly de result dey was ruling ut.

 

[ovrszd]

You guys need to find something to do and step away.

 

[Steppenwolfe]

I don't recall where it was but Might have been Washington state. They used ground up tires in a fill across a gully. It caught fire... This would have been back aroun 70 something.

I think I helped collect some of those on Earth Day #1...:shocked:

 

[MossRoad]

You guys need to find something to do and step away.

Now that's something grandpa would have said.

 

[MossRoad]

I think I helped collect some of those on Earth Day #1...:shocked:

There were about 20-25 kids on our block varying in age from late teens to infants. We all hung out together, like extended family. For several of the early earth days, we would walk down the dirt road behind our neighborhood and pick up trash. The city promised to send a dump truck out for us, the newspaper and TV stations covered it. After about the 4th or 5th dump truck the city started getting the idea that maybe they should send out some city employees to help pull the heavy stuff, like tires and appliances, and a couple old cars!

 

[Steppenwolfe]

There were about 20-25 kids on our block varying in age from late teens to infants. We all hung out together, like extended family. For several of the early earth days, we would walk down the dirt road behind our neighborhood and pick up trash. The city promised to send a dump truck out for us, the newspaper and TV stations covered it. After about the 4th or 5th dump truck the city started getting the idea that maybe they should send out some city employees to help pull the heavy stuff, like tires and appliances, and a couple old cars!

That was a real big deal back in the 70's...