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by Hutch
Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:48 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Blaw Knox Pavers
Replies: 521
Views: 265731

Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Hi Steve Four of Rochester,s finest PF65s with two being hauled by one of the pioneers of middle east transport Astran who are still in business and are based in New Hythe, Kent.They used to do a lot of freight to Iran as well in the seventies.One of the fitters I did my apprenticeship with used to ...
by Hutch
Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:31 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Mystery mini tracked paver spotted today
Replies: 2
Views: 3689

Re: Mystery mini tracked paver spotted today

Hi Gavin
Paver in question is an Antec PT2600 and of Italian origin with the company being brought by Ammann a few years ago . Antec was a rival of Bitelli, having been set up by one of the engineers who left Bitelli to start their own company
by Hutch
Mon Sep 22, 2014 12:16 am
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Track pavers
Replies: 11
Views: 8904

Re: Track pavers

Hi Liam It all depends on what size machine you have the chance of buying.If it is a small paver for footpaths,drives or patching then there is no option but to go with tracks as there is no way that wheels can be fitted to such a small machine that will give the same amount of traction as tracks.On...
by Hutch
Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:07 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Rubber Tyred Rollers
Replies: 4
Views: 3942

Re: Rubber Tyred Rollers

Orthopactors were a type of rubber tyred roller made by a French company called Alberet who were taken over by Caterpillar,Alberet were a company who did not follow the ways of other roller manufacturers and produced some weird looking rollers like the isopactor which had a single drum with the cab ...
by Hutch
Sat May 03, 2014 9:21 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Blaw Knox Pavers
Replies: 521
Views: 265731

Re: Blaw Knox Pavers

Hi All Slightly off topic but can anyone remember a roller hire company called David Meek and what became of them.They appeared in the early ninties with a dark blue and yellow paint scheme and specialised in dead weight rollers having all new Aveling Barford rollers with the fifty pence piece shape...
by Hutch
Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:24 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Wirtgen road planer; but what model?
Replies: 21
Views: 20642

Re: Wirtgen road planer; but what model?

Hi Richard They have a dealer in Sussex but they are really only an Astec dealer and the roadtec part is comes by default.As far as I know the Roadtec range is not sold in the UK as the pavers are too wide and most of their screeds tend to be strike off with no tampers.The market for planers in the ...
by Hutch
Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:39 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Wirtgen road planer; but what model?
Replies: 21
Views: 20642

Re: Wirtgen road planer; but what model?

Hi Richard Have a look at the Roadtec website they have planers that will cut up to 7 metres wide with extensions to the cutting drum and from what ive been told their first planer was based on the design of a British planer called a Simec that was made in Cramlington near Newcastle, of which they b...
by Hutch
Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:36 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Extreme Paving
Replies: 12
Views: 21485

Re: Extreme Paving

Hope their paying the man on the Bomag roller well that looks one scary place to be
by Hutch
Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:30 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: Colour matching
Replies: 7
Views: 4984

Re: Colour matching

Hi Richard The material they are using is not normal asphalt but coloured resin based asphalt.It has a lower temperature and tends to stay where it drops with no bleeding out of the colours.About fifteen years ago there was this big idea to replace the anti skid type surfacing in the UK with this du...
by Hutch
Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:47 pm
Forum: Paving Equipment
Topic: JCB compactors?
Replies: 7
Views: 5194

Re: JCB compactors?

Vibromax were part of the Teneco group who owned Case,Poclain but were demerged when parts of the group were sold off and for some years traded from Gerrmany with no dealers in the UK. I remember working on these rollers in the mid eighties and at that time they had an easy rider appearance as they ...

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