Hi, Folks.
WOTTTT????? NO traffic control???????? Now THOSE were the days.



Just how they did it..

Desa,
Ya gota be fair he did hava red flag on top

Regards

Cold Mixed mcadam -
Long before Hot Mix batch plants, most was river run materials and some places it still exists and holding up.
Those skills and materials are both long gone. Many of the "oils" used are now not available, many due to enviornmental issues.

Motorists in those times were courteous, appreciative of the efforts of the maintenance people.

Times have changed and so have the attitudes!

Signs mean little, you would be amazed at how many stop and tell the flagperson, you have no signs up! Put the flagperson sign sideways and every one will tell you about it!

CTS

Hi, cts.
A LOTTTT of the road-making materials used here in DwoNunda were ridge gravels or bush gravels, essentially gravels that were naturally occurring and found in various forms and in deposits of varying sizes almost right across the country.. Many of these gravels could be used as either base or top course just as they were found in the bush, loaded straight into trucks and hauled out onto the road bed.

A process called water binding, mixing water with the gravel to obtained the best consistency for compaction, was an art form, especially since the water required and the amount of mixing needed could vary from one deposit to another within a few miles. A fairly reliable guide was when the gravel would 'stand up' from about 2" to about 4" above the top of the grader moldboard when working a reasonably full blade.

In some areas, lime or cement stabilzation was required to create a stable sub-grade from which to build uo with the gravel courses.

Another 'trick' used in what is known as 'the black soil country' was a 'gadget' called a road burner which used either wood or oil fired heat to bake the clay into almost a ceramic in order to stabilize it to create a useable road - 1931 technology..

www.flickr.com/photos/outback_traveller/27597347283

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images.macalba.net/2007/10/20071008-10-00-52.jpg

My understanding is that 3 of these machines were built, 2 of them burning wood to create the required heat and the third burning oil.

FCR - fine crushed rock - materials from hard rock quarries have largely taken over in more developed areas but there is still a lot of bush or ridge gravel used in more remote areas.

Just my 0.02.

i can remember ashfault done that when i was quit young , nice to see some of those mighty allis chalmers at work