Machines And Supplies Used In Road Construction
You have just purchased a palatial flat intending to repair it and then flipping it at a higher price. However, the road inside the property, and leading to the gateway of the building is in a poor condition. You can rest assured that prospective clients will not even enter your building because the sight of the dilapidated roadway discourages them from checking the property. Therefore, your first job is to repair the road and make it presentable. Apart from this, you will also have to repair the exterior and interior of the home. If you have experience in the construction business, you no doubt know where to purchase supplies for construction.
In this article, we shall focus on repairing the road, the equipment, and the supplies you need for the job, along with a brief description of each of them.
1. Crawler excavator: You need this machine for moving or excavating debris, clay, rock, and soil in road construction sites. Although you can find different sizes of the crawler excavator, you shall need a small one, as you will only be repairing the road leading from the gate to the door of the building. This equipment is mounted on a track, just as military tanks are.
2. Motor grader: You simply cannot carry out the road repairing or construction without this machine, whose purpose is to level the road's surface before you or your workers can pour molten asphalt on it. Homebuilding companies use this equipment for the construction of dirt or gravel-based roads. The modern generation motor grader has three axles, one in the front and two at the rear end of the equipment. The blade that lies between the rear and front end of the machine levels the intended surface. These machines are available in various sizes to suit different scales of road construction activities.
3. Road roller: You require a road roller to compact layers of asphalt to increase the smoothness as well as the sturdiness of the road's surface. You can also use this equipment for compacting gravels and soil on the road before laying asphalt on it. Some of the different kinds of rollers include vibratory rollers, pneumatic tired rollers, smooth wheel rollers, and double drum (tandem) rollers. This equipment either has multiple or single drums that can be filled with sand or water to increase their force of compaction and weight.
4. Asphalt melting equipment: The purpose of this equipment is to produce coated road stone and asphalt concrete by mixing binders, fillers, minerals, asphalt, aggregates, and sand in the right temperature and proportion. It is vital to keep this mixture hot until you apply it to the construction site to avoid a premature setting.
5. Wheel loader: Also known as a bucket loader or front loader, this equipment contains an arm with a big bucket attacked to it. You will need it for lifting as well as moving debris, rocks, and soil in and around the road construction site. You can also use it for backfilling holes or trenches dug up during the construction of roads.