You can see that the road did need work, and this isn't one of the bad parts. Surely wish I thought it would be nice, after they are done, for more than a couple of years...................................
This is maybe the most astonishing part of the whole operation (so far).
This would be the street-eater. In front of it, street. In back of it, dirt that was below the street, when there was street.
That's pretty amazing in itself, imh, but even more surprising was that it was one of the quietest things they've done. Ok, there was truck-rumble, but no more sound than that.
I suspect this individual was doing the fine-tuning on how deep and exactly where the street-eating was happening. It was apparently necessary for someone to walk along and twiddle these switches, etc.
Here's where the street went. These trucks filled up pretty fast. They were lined up, waiting for their turn to receive what used to be the street.
I bet it took four passes to remove the whole street.
Overnight we had dirt, only. The next day, they sprayed what looks like tar on the edge of the curb.
And now, the street-creator. Like the street-eater, it moved slowly, leaving amazing transformation in its wake.
The asphalt was in the red truck. How it got from there into the street-creator, I didn't see.
It moved right along. When I came back upstairs after breakfast, it was done with the second pass, at least at our end of the street.
Guess what happened the next day!
Another layer of asphalt, to bring the road surface up to the level of the bottom of the curbs? Not!
Now we're chopping up more curb!
Serious amounts of curb chopping, not just a little chunk here and there........
Note yellow front-end loader with load of curb (some dangling from its rebar), ready to dump into the red truck.
I say again -- just thrilled to witness my tax dollars in action...............
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