Bitumen boiler and road repair

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
We had the farm road redone by national grid when they had to replace the 400kv lines about 7 or 8 years ago. It is a lovely Tarmac surface but is now showing its age in places where it is cracking/moving slightly.

Money is a bit tight and don't want to go down the water based tar and grit route over the whole length as I don't think it is a lasting method of repair, is a big job and contractors are just going to rape me!. By that I mean that the water based products are cr*p and the grit does very little but flick into the hedge and could even make the cracking worse.

What I do have though is a trailed tar boiler with a barrel about six foot across with burner and stirrer incorporated. I was hoping to get some proper bitumen/tar based product we could melt in this pot and apply road dust over the top to seal it and keep the frost out of the few 6ft square patches that are blown.

What tar would you get and would roofing bitumen be good enough? I can get this in 20 odd kilo blocks pretty much anywhere but don't know the suitability.

Ideas and experiences appreciated.
 

milkloss

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
East Sussex
Sounds like you need to stop the next hare courser you come across and ask them where they get their stuff,:-o

They stop themselves and that is the problem as it has made me realise it needs doing. You know they are going to bend you over somehow especially in an unconvincing hi-viz highway maintenance vest (hat as well; I thought that was overkill myself). 'Doing a job up the road mate and need to clean the tanks out', yeah right!


Yes, I hadn't looked them up and now I have I am non the wiser unfortunately. I think most of their products are aimed at larger equipment (no blokes chucking dust on with a shovel that's for sure) and larger orders. Will give them a ring if I don't learn much more soon.

Thanks guys.
 

Mydexta

Member
Location
Dundee/angus
Lot of roads up here get surfaced dressed( the water based tar and chips) throughout the summer as it seals them up for the winter. If you're road is cracking it would be worth getting the worst bits cut out and re patched Ad then surface dress the whole road the following year or whenever you can afford it.

My last job was with a roadworks contractor and we used to do a fair few farm roads like this and most used to re do the surface dressing either every year or 2nd yr depending in the volume of traffic
 

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