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Lets make a paved road...Go!
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pegasus1300
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Isn't this chip sealing? I hate this type of paving.
Bob Denman
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mowin
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You are correct. I see no pavement.
However, they definitely can back up straight. :thumbup:
I'd guess at that vid & road being made somewhere in Australia, or at least in a country that drives on the same side of the road as we do & has lotsa wide open spaces as well as the same sort of distances to cover between towns & even houses as we do! 
And if that's the case, bear in mind that by far the majority of our 'country' & outback roads are 'made' that way - well, those relatively few of the hundreds of thousands of miles of roads & tracks that are lucky enough to be sealed, anyway!! It may not be great for making perfectly smooth & debris free roads, it might not be fantastic for belt drive vehicles, but it does mean that they can 'make' miles of road in a day; it makes the road 'all weather' instead of 'dry weather only'; and it sure keeps the dust down!! Besides, when it's the local Council & therefore the relatively few local rate-payers who hafta fund any 'non-major' road sealing that goes on, it's fairly cheap as well as being quick & easy to do! :thumbup:
And if that's the case, bear in mind that by far the majority of our 'country' & outback roads are 'made' that way - well, those relatively few of the hundreds of thousands of miles of roads & tracks that are lucky enough to be sealed, anyway!! It may not be great for making perfectly smooth & debris free roads, it might not be fantastic for belt drive vehicles, but it does mean that they can 'make' miles of road in a day; it makes the road 'all weather' instead of 'dry weather only'; and it sure keeps the dust down!! Besides, when it's the local Council & therefore the relatively few local rate-payers who hafta fund any 'non-major' road sealing that goes on, it's fairly cheap as well as being quick & easy to do! :thumbup:
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mowin
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I'd guess at that vid & road being made somewhere in Australia, or at least in a country that drives on the same side of the road as we do & has lotsa wide open spaces as well as the same sort of distances to cover between towns & even houses as we do!
And if that's the case, bear in mind that by far the majority of our 'country' & outback roads are 'made' that way - well, those relatively few of the hundreds of thousands of miles of roads & tracks that are lucky enough to be sealed, anyway!! It may not be great for making perfectly smooth & debris free roads, it might not be fantastic for belt drive vehicles, but it does mean that they can 'make' miles of road in a day; it makes the road 'all weather' instead of 'dry weather only'; and it sure keeps the dust down!! Besides, when it's the local Council & therefore the relatively few local rate-payers who hafta fund any 'non-major' road sealing that goes on, it's fairly cheap as well as being quick & easy to do! :thumbup:
Chip sealing in my area is a little different. Only asphalt roads that are a little tired get the oil and stone treatment. It's usually secondary/town roads, not state highways or county roads.
I hate when they chip seal the roads. Have to drive so slow to keep the "chips" away from chipping your paint. But, it never fails... Always get some young driver in a rusted out POS flying by at warp speed sending hunderds of tiny rocks into your vehicle like bird shot. :banghead:
Bob Denman
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:agree: When they're chip-sealing the roads around us: word gets out quickly, and folks let everyone know which roads are safe, and which ones aren't... nojoke
Bob Denman
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None of them do! 
We get a couple of Months of really good roads, Six Months of Decent roads, several more of crappy roads, and then two years of the Ho-Chi-Minh trail; before they re-surface them again!
We get a couple of Months of really good roads, Six Months of Decent roads, several more of crappy roads, and then two years of the Ho-Chi-Minh trail; before they re-surface them again!
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Yeah, but out here, where it often doesn't rain for 10 years or more & if it does rain it floods; where there's often only one or two cars or trucks a day using them; & where there are looong distances between houses let alone towns & cities meaning there's a tiny revenue raising base to fund construction, roads made like this quickly & cost effectively can & do last many decades!! :shocked:
It's a 'horses for courses' thing - this sort of road obviously isn't ideal in areas subject to a great deal of rainfall or where it snows annually; they aren't really suited to areas that see hundreds of vehicles travelling on them each & every day..... But where the population & traffic load just isn't that great; where the annual rainfall is measured in fractions of an inch or just a few mms & there's NEVER any snow; and where the alternative is leaving it as a naked dirt strip that will develop vehicle killing corrugations & ruts (& that's REAL vehicle killing roads, not just a figure of speech for 'uncomfortable to drive on' roads!) or probably just to let it blow away within a couple of weeks after it's put thru, they are a great thing!! And honestly, they are a helluva lot easier on my Spyder than the usual sandy or patchy gravelled covered & corrugated alternative we often see as 'roads' once we get more than 50 miles or so away from a major population centre! :thumbup:
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mowin
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I agree with you 100%. That type of road over here would be junk after the first decent rain.
I guess what we're saying is on our side of the globe, that isn't "paving". Paving in your area sure is different than in ours.
Sure is different - I doubt we'd have more than a few hundred kilometres of roads in the entirety of Australia that are 'paved' in the manner your roads are traditionally deemed 'paved'. Most of our 'paved' roads are actually more correctly called 'sealed', ie constructed of various mixes of asphalt & gravel, much of which is that 'chip sealing' that you all dislike so much but which we appreciate as being sooooo much better than the loose gravel & corrugated dirt or sand that's the most common alternative here!!
Putting it into all a little different perspective, we have almost 1,000,000 kilometres of roads here in Australia; with only a total of not quite 355,000 kms of that being sealed at all & even then those sealed kms are largely serving the over 85% of our population that lives within 50km of the Southern Eastern coastline!! And while our coastline length of almost 26,000 kms is just a little larger than the USA's at just under 20,000 kms, our total land mass (of about 7.6 million sq km vs the USA's 9.16 million sq km) is fairly close considering, so our population gets to spread out at a rate of about 360 sq km per 1000 people vs the USA's paltry 30.16 sq km per 1000 people!! Don't you always feel a bit cramped over there??!?
Anyhow, the point is that by comparison, you have a lot of people crammed fairly closely into a reasonably similar total area, with all of those people contributing in some way to maintaining your paved roads network; while our population is much smaller as well as much wider spread & further apart, so our road network (which undeniably is of a major significance to the health of our economy & btw, our economy is still one of the healthiest in the world!!) has an exponentially smaller contribution base to fund its construction & maintenance!! So it's probably a good thing that so much of our country gets so little rain!! If much more of Aus copped the levels of rainfall our Far North Queensland area (North Eastern Australia & Cape York) gets annually for instance, we probably wouldn't have too much road network left at all after the very first Wet Season!! Our roads up that way are largely left as dirt anyway, simply because bitumen &/or concrete paving really doesn't stand up too well to the 'more than 6 feet of rain' that falls on it annually, but especially when it's concentrated into just the couple of months of 'the Wet' as it usually is!! They don't call Australia 'A Land of Droughts or Flooding Rain' for nothing! :thumbup:
So making roads like that shown in the video clip is not only economically sensible here, it's pretty much essential if you want any form of sealing!
