pot hole quick fixer

I’ve done some googling and can’t find anything, but I’m sure this must exist already.

Rural roads get potholes. Potholes need fixing. This takes time, closing the road, and causing general dismay, delay and hassle. Top Gear did a thing about it. As with all things TV, it’s on YouTube here.

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The idea. A special heavy truck with a 3 foot square drill bit and a compactor. It drives over a hole in the road, is stationary for just 5 minutes per pot hole - scoops out broken bit, drops in pre-set cube of surfaced tarmac into a puddle of molten tar. A perfect surface in an instant. Well, 5 minutes. Maybe 10. It wouldn’t handle some problems, but it would deal with a huge percentage of problems I see.

It would also look very thunderbirdy!

The important thing being that the road doesn’t have to close. It would be a low cost 2 man operation – ideal for single track roads in remote areas, or heavily used streets in city centre where closure would cause vast hold-ups.

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For some reason this job feels like it would be similar to fencing, with all the excitement that entails. Someone must know of a site / link where this kind of thing exists.

CC workman sign from http://flickr.com/photos/currybet/24754916/

September 9, 2007 | Filed Under

 

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3 Responses to “pot hole quick fixer”

  1. Nathan on September 10th, 2007 5:55 am

    I could use something like this (I tried to fill the pot-holes on my driveway last weekend with nothing more than a bag of ready mixed tarmac and a house brick to compact it).
    You could add a ground-penetrating radar to the truck, just in case there is something unexpected underneath the surface like a gas main or unexploded WW-II bomb.

  2. Nathan on September 10th, 2007 6:01 am

    If you painted it black it would make the perfect grave digging machine

  3. patrick on October 26th, 2007 2:38 am

    brilliant…anything thunderbirdy has to be worth manufacturing!

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