[AT] OT Roller!

charlie hill chill8 at cox.net
Wed Mar 17 13:35:59 PST 2004


Yeah I saw those marks too Mattias.  Looks like where the rollers were
sitting on the pavement.    That is not the sort of rig that would blow over
in a wind storm!

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kessen, Mattias (Road SE)" <mattias.kessen at ncc.se>
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Subject: SV: [AT] OT Roller!


> No idea, but there are some marks as if the front and rear roll had been
on
> the pavement so I don't think it was there prior to the pavement. It's
> definetely an asphalt roller. I would also guess that a roller that big
> weighs between 10 and fifteen tons so it must have been a heavy roll.
>
> /Mattias
>
> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: charlie hill [mailto:chill8 at cox.net]
> Skickat: den 17 mars 2004 16:46
> Till: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Ämne: Re: [AT] OT Roller!
>
>
> For the life of me I can't figure out what turned that thing over.  It is
> sitting on fairly flat ground and there are no marks on the fresh asphalt
> beside it.  Maybe it was already turned over before the new asphalt was
laid
> but now they are going to mess that up trying to set the thing back up.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kessen, Mattias (Road SE)" <mattias.kessen at ncc.se>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 10:31 AM
> Subject: SV: [AT] OT Roller!
>
>
> > Maybe it's like when a former friend of mine was working in Saudi Arabia
> and
> > african countries. The employees in those was not the most eager workers
> if
> > you know what I mean. One day he showed them a rake that he had made by
> the
> > local blacksmith, the flat kind to use on the seam between the asphalt
> > previously paved and the newly pawed (behind the paver). before that
they
> > used the kind of rakes that one would use for leaves. An ordinary rake
is
> ca.
> > 60 centimetres ~2'. The one using it became very happy whit it, so the
> next
> > day he too had visited the blacksmith and came with rake whit a two
meter
> > (~6') blade :-0
> > Maybe this roller is made by the same guy and he has figured like now I
> have
> > to make 4 passes instead of 6?
> >
> >
> > /Mattias
> >
> >
> > --Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> > Från: George Willer [mailto:gwill at toast.net]
> > Skickat: den 17 mars 2004 16:17
> > Till: Antique tractor email discussion group
> > Ämne: Re: [AT] OT Roller!
> >
> >
> > Mattias,
> >
> > It confused me too.  Up till now I thought of rollers as either
tri-roller
> > or tandem.  I guess that one would be a tri-tandem.  I don't know where
> the
> > vibratories with one roll fit in.
> >
> > George Willer
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "Kessen, Mattias (Road SE)" <mattias.kessen at ncc.se>
> > To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
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> > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 9:30 AM
> > Subject: SV: [AT] OT Roller!
> >
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > There has to be a story behind that!  How do you roll a roller?
> > >
> > > Charlie
> > >
> > > Yes but I've only seen the picture. A friend of mine sent it to me.
I'm
> > going
> > > to asking him where he found it. I btw think it's quite a strange
roller
> > with
> > > the three inline rolls. Never seen one around here.
> > >
> > > /Mattias
> > >
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