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Some cracking pics there chaps! Tilcon laying, it appears, wet-mix which probably came from our Ballidon quarry, my pal Tony Fox with his Clydesdale when he was a Tarmac O/D, surfacing Slack Hill (did that again many years later from Ballidon) and one of those small Barber Greene's on tracks which w...

All in a days work Pete :lol: Was the blacktop gang sober on a sunday ;) Ha ha! It was one of Tilcon's own gangs I think but yes they seemed sober! Now if it had been Charmac doing the job..............who knows :roll: Somehow Sunday work always seemed to have problems, you planned a nice steady mo...

Not sure where you are based Howard, I guess not the UK, but for any advice on the Wisconsin engine and parts there are some great guy's on the SMOKSTAK forum who have helped me out with My Wisconsin AK.

http://www.smokstak.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=27

Pete.

Talking about colours reminds me of the time when we did some Sunday work on a main road through Bolton, the material should have been supplied from Tilcon's plant at Weaste, Salford, but they could not raise enough vehicles or staff (not sure which) for a Sunday so it came from Tilcon's Ballidon qu...

I think that you are right about the machines Richard, we used to do work at MIRA but they just used a pair of standard machines fastened together if I remember correctly. I know that I had to take a laden eight wheeler round the banking at MIRA and I was following the roller, made the old ar*e chee...

Very similar to how Toyota's test track at Burnaston, Derby, was surfaced. The paver however was a one off in that the machine and operator sat level and the chassis was at a steep angle, we supplied wet mix from Tilcons Ballidon quarry and (I think, it was a long time ago!) an elevator transferred ...

Hello Pete ,I know what you mean , I did quite a lot of work at the Millbrook circuit in Bedfordshire some years back , some of the gradients maybe 1 in 10 or less and savage crossfalls on severe curves you think you are going to tip clean over , really does focus the mind ! By the way Pete who man...

Hello Pete ,did you ever run material to Tilcons job at MIRA ? off the A5 near Nuneaton where because of the gradients they apparently bolted two BKs together while surfacing the test track ,that would be back in the 90s. Never saw it myself so don"t know how much truth is in that bit of folkl...

When the test track at the Toyota factory at Burnaston was being constructed they used a roller which was pulled up and down the banking by a winch on a dozer. The paver was a special one built for the task, it travelled around the banking but the drivers seat and engine etc was upright so that the ...

No bad thing not allowing driver's to get in the pan, when you machine lads had lathered diesel all around it the thing became lethal! ;) Many times I nearly ended up on my backside, and then you got back in the cab with slippery soles to your boots and kept sliding off of the pedals. We only had on...