Tar and Chip roads???

[flhtsteve]

Does anyone have any experience with Tar and Chip Roads? My road was recently Tar and Chipped, and it seems to be a very thin layer of tar and a sparse spreading of the Chip.. Please take a look at the picture.

Is this normal?

 

[Radiant1]

Does anyone have any experience with Tar and Chip Roads? My road was recently Tar and Chipped, and it seems to be a very thin layer of tar and a sparse spreading of the Chip.. Please take a look at the picture.

Is this normal?

It looks similar to my road every time the county re-did it. :shrug: The stone will eventually sink into the tar and the tar harden, and then you'll find yourself with a nice hard surface with some loose stone along the edges of the road where cars haven't packed it down.

 

[aps45819]

Is this normal?

yes

 

[ginwoman]

better than tar and feather

 

[Catman2]

My knee had a close encounter with the loose edge in 1973.....dam spiderbike!!

 

[BernieP]

it's paved, get over it

 

[pelers]

This was how they did the roads around where I grew up, I think. Was kind of gravel like until it was packed down. Worked well enough, they had to redo it every few years, though.

 

[belvak]

My knee had a close encounter with the loose edge in 1973.....dam spiderbike!!

This was how they did the roads around where I grew up, I think. Was kind of gravel like until it was packed down. Worked well enough, they had to redo it every few years, though.

I still have a small "blue chip" in my knee where I had to have stitches after a bike wreck. By bike, I mean the non-motorized kind! Think 5th grader... I sat up watching the doctor stitch me up, then our parents took us to the drive-in to watch Tora, Tora, Tora! Yes, I'm old.

 

[itsbob]

Those aren't chips those are friggin ROCKS...

 

[RoseRed]

I seem to recall Jones Wharf Road being done this way. Makes for a long and dangerous ride down to Seabreeze on a bike.

 

[pelers]

This was how they did the roads around where I grew up, I think. Was kind of gravel like until it was packed down. Worked well enough, they had to redo it every few years, though.

Though I guess I should probably mention I grew up half mile from an army base that usually had a few good sized convoys in and out each week to help smash things down.

 

[migtig]

It looks similar to my road every time the county re-did it. :shrug: The stone will eventually sink into the tar and the tar harden, and then you'll find yourself with a nice hard surface with some loose stone along the edges of the road where cars haven't packed it down.

They do that to the road leading to our house every few years. I hate it - for months. Then all of a sudden it's a nice road and you would never know it had been loose rock. :shrug:

 

[dan0623_2000]

I seem to recall Jones Wharf Road being done this way. Makes for a long and dangerous ride down to Seabreeze on a bike.

Man you could really get some speed up going down that hill on Jones Wharf Road and fly around that curve. I Never had a chance as a kid to ride my bike down Sangates Road to Seabreeze

 

[itsbob]

PennDOT would do this on the backroads but they didn't use rocks what they used they called "cinders" which was a black rock ground up very small, a little smaller than pea gravel.

Spread oil/tar on the road, than spread the cinders on top.. nowhere near as dangerous on a bike as the picture shows, and a lot of fun in a car, not every day you can speed down a road and leave a rooster tail behind your car.

Living next to the Allegheny (sp?) they used the same thing on the roads in the winter time in town.. They limited the use of salt, and used cinders more often than the salt. It wouldn't melt anything but would embed into the ice and snow and provide traction.

 

[RoseRed]

I seem to recall Jones Wharf Road being done this way. Makes for a long and dangerous ride down to Seabreeze on a bike.

I meant Sandgates Road. My bad.