On 6/15/2014 11:02 AM, David Shaw wrote:
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> Over here in the UK, the standard tarmac/asphalt layer is the Blaw
> Knox, as pictured on the Wikipedia Blaw Knox page.  The hopper is,
> indeed, not big enough to take a full dump truck load so the dump
> truck backs up to the hopper and then reverses with the layer as it
> spreads the asphalt. Even on the motorways, this is the only method of
> transferring from dump truck to spreader I have ever seen used.
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> My father used to be one of the team in charge of all civil
> engineering, including road resurfacing, for our local council and I
> got to see a lot of this stuff during school holidays :-)
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> David Shaw
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Yeah, that's the general style I'm used to working with. The company I
worked for kept rather punishing hours, for about a year after I quit, I
still had nightmares about that thing eating me.

When I think of the large machines, I think of things like this:

http://www.site-kconstructionzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Dynapac-CM2500-CompactAsphalt-side-PHOTO.jpg