Asphalt

   / Asphalt #41  
Soundguy said:
Made cheap single ink color copies for handouts for kids at school to take tests on.. etc.. Just hook the master ont he roller, and plug her in and feed her paper.. made a thump,thump,thump, sound as it shot the copies out.

Soundguy

You musta gone to one of the fancy schools. We had to hand crank ours. The nuns hand-picked the problematic children to turn the crank. Seemed like my name came up more often than the other kids. Maybe if they only knew ADD had more than one meaning?
 
   / Asphalt #43  
If he is going to drop a single axel load just use a shovel and have him make 3 drops.
A stone rake that is FLAT can be used for finishing, the ones I am talking about are about 50 bucks new. A rounded garden rake is worthless.
Use the teeth down to move the asphalt and the back of the rake to smooth it. Wet the rake and your shovel with deisel fuel before starting and as needed, that will help keep the blacktop from sticking, use a putty knife to scrape it off. A lute ( I assume thats what FL guys call loops :)) is better but you dont need to spend money on something you wont use again. A good stone rake will last a long time. You can also but a asphalt rake, looks just like a stone rake with a 18" long iron neck to the head. They are great, but they are expensive and hard to find.

Rent a plate tamper that has a water reserve. Tamp the base hard before the truck gets there.

If you are going to go with one layer go as deep as needed not less that 2 inches though. If you are going to go 4 inches, you need to do it in 2 layers or your tamper will dig in on the turns and the whole thing will not compact nice and smooth.

This is assuming that you are only going to do a little area (15x15 or less). If your plan is to go a little here and there until it is finished, you could, it will look like crap, but you could.

If it is a small area and the guy wants to hunt, he can bring 2 guys and a tamper along. If he doesnt want to hunt then......... If you are looking at a long driveway then I can understand him not wanting to just do it.
 
   / Asphalt #44  
Yep.. LOOP.. big fingers.

I agree.. What we call a leaf rake here in fl is useless.. what we call a garden rake ( flat back, and stiff 2" tines ).. will work 'ok'..

Soundguy
 

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