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- Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:48 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Blaw Knox Pavers
- Replies: 521
- Views: 280517
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 ...
- Sat Dec 13, 2014 11:31 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Mystery mini tracked paver spotted today
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4225
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
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
- Mon Sep 22, 2014 12:16 am
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Track pavers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9654
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...
- Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:07 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Rubber Tyred Rollers
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4231
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 ...
- Sat May 03, 2014 9:21 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Blaw Knox Pavers
- Replies: 521
- Views: 280517
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...
- Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:24 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Wirtgen road planer; but what model?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 23834
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 ...
- Mon Feb 17, 2014 5:39 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Wirtgen road planer; but what model?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 23834
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...
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:36 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Extreme Paving
- Replies: 12
- Views: 22969
Re: Extreme Paving
Hope their paying the man on the Bomag roller well that looks one scary place to be
- Mon Jan 20, 2014 4:30 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: Colour matching
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5189
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...
- Mon Nov 18, 2013 2:47 pm
- Forum: Paving Equipment
- Topic: JCB compactors?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 5390
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 ...