The damned county's application of that BS 'chip seal' crap that they just HAVE to put on the roads around here... Bastids...
Used to just do that on the "No lines, wide single lane" one step up from dirt back roads here. Now the busy secondary state roads are getting it.
State worker tools me it's a cost saver. A coat of that Shïtsz extende the
life of the road.
Gotta say putting it down was some of the most interesting truck driving
I've done. Blacktop, they push your truck while you dump.
Tar and chip. A truck puts tar down first.
There are arms on the spreader that reach out and hook rollers into your
rear drive wheels. Then they pull you backward while you dump stone in the hopper.
I had an old Mack with the dump controls out behind the cab.
So here I am being pulled backward at a pretty good clip,
Steering to follow the spreader, watching the guy motion for
me to raise or lower the bed, twisted around, reaching out the window behind me raising and lowering the bed. On skinny one lane roads, knocking tree limbs, hoping the guy keeps me out of the big ones or power
Lines. Leaves and branches falling.....did I mention they go like Hell!
It was a hoot!
7mm.
Rain has been funny this year.
Between Bedford and Mile Level, sort of.
Early July we had a dry period where I went about 10 days without mowing.
Other than that it has been weekly, and that's wasn't enough.
Should have been raking.😂😂😂
Co-worker lives near Weyandt, good bit of summer his lawn was burnt up.
Lucky bastid!
