It can eliminate the ripple effect on the finished hard mat in the long term - meaning months and years after placement." "You have to make sure that the surface after the milling process is clean of all loose debris so that the tack coat and asphalt have a permanent and solid base to adhere to. There is an advantage to using the MK-1, according to Ben Tucker, equipment manager for Barriere.
The MK-1 can load to a height of 10 feet 6 inches straight ahead or to either side. The Broce MK-1 Transfer Sweeper is designed not only to sweep debris off the roadway, but also to remove and load the material into a dump truck in a continuous operation. This was done to give the newly milled surface a final sweeping before the actual asphalt placement. These three American-made (Dodge City, Kansas) machines, immediately following the contractor's two Roadtec milling machines, preceded the tack truck in front of the Roadtec SB-2500 Shuttle Buggy and Cat AP-1055D laydown machine. They were working in an echelon formation, very close behind the milling machine and only slightly preceded the asphalt paving train.Ī Broce MK-1 Transfer Sweeper with conveyor and a separate dump truck immediately followed two Broce CR-350 brooms that were working in a stepped overlay formation in order to sweep the newly milled surface clean of all remaining millings and other debris. On the recent milling and resurfacing project on Route 23 in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, about 30 miles south of New Orleans, Barriere Construction Co, used three Broce mechanical brooms. It has been shown that among the best ways to accomplish this is with the use of a modern mechanical broom. Without it, the longevity of the new road surface becomes suspect. The clean sweeping of any residual debris following the milling of an about-to-be-resurfaced highway is one of the most important phases of the job. It's a minor operation that plays a major part of an incentive-winning mat! They introduced their new MK-1 transfer sweeper that both cleans the milled surface and outloads the debris, dust and milling remains from the job just ahead of the paving train. from Dodge City, Kansas, has recently addressed this latter problem. These can range from the temperature of the mix from the plant to the project, to the smoothness and cleanliness of the milled mat to be resurfaced.īroce Manufacturing Co. As most experienced asphalt contractors are well aware of, it's most often the little things that can make the big differences. Often all but overlooked in the importance of a major hot mix asphalt-paving project are the "little details" that make the difference between just another blacktop job and an incentive-earning, award-winning, roadway-resurfacing project. In between the two events, the state had expended no major maintenance funds on the stretch of highway. Highway 23) at Pointe a la Hache, near Port Sulphur, Louisiana.īarriere earned the low bid resurfacing contract with LDOTD on a roadway for which they had already won a top National Asphalt Pavement Association's "excellence in craft award" a quarter of a century earlier. It took place on a $3.5-million, 4-mile-long, milling and resurfacing job on a section of Belle Chasse Highway (La. It is also a well-established fact that the American taxpayer is the ultimate beneficiary in a contractor's effort to put down a longer lasting roadway surface, as Belle Chase-based Barriere Construction Co.'s South Shore Asphalt Division recently demonstrated.
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