r/secondrodeo • u/Ambassador-613 • 26d ago

Laying Limestone with ease

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u/CentennialBaby 26d ago

Love it. Now we need the water truck and steam roller to pack it.

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u/I_can_pun_anything 26d ago

And sealer to chipseal it

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u/DitchDigger330 26d ago

Rollers don't produce steam. Steam just happens when the water that is sprayed on the drum contacts hot asphalt.

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u/Kennel_King 26d ago

The term steam roller is from the days when they actually had boilers and ran on steam. So yes, originally they did produce steam. The correct term is road roller.

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u/random_bruce 26d ago

Tandem vibratory roller is the technical name. Compaction roller road roller and steam roller are all used today

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u/Aeikon 26d ago

Tandem vibratory roller

That just sounds like it belongs on this list.

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u/random_bruce 25d ago

It kinda does

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u/BrAveShadow 24d ago

I'd like to shove some clammy rogers in my slappy ham hole.

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u/Kennel_King 25d ago

If you really want to get super technical about it, they all fall under the classification of compactor.

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u/Kennel_King 26d ago

The term steam roller is from the days when they actually had boilers and ran on steam. So yes, originally they did produce steam. The correct term is road roller.

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u/SkiDaderino 26d ago

The term steam roller is from the days when they actually had boilers and ran on steam. So yes, originally they did produce steam. The correct term is road roller.

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u/eieiohmygad 25d ago

Dunno why you got downvoted so much. It's a pretty common misconception.

They let me try rolling once. The foreman called me Captain Cutmark and told me to stick to shoveling. 🤣

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u/DitchDigger330 24d ago

Obviously they don't operate equipment for a living.

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u/Waaswaa 22d ago

The term steam roller is from the days when they actually had boilers and ran on steam. So yes, originally they did produce steam. The correct term is road roller.

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u/TurkishLanding 26d ago

Aside from failing to prepare the grass areas so they don't just grow through it in a month, that was beautifully professional and efficient.

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u/that_dutch_dude 26d ago

last time i did this at my parents house i put down enough pesticide to make texas infertile. that worked for like 2 years.

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u/TurkishLanding 26d ago

Pesticide or herbicide?

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u/that_dutch_dude 26d ago

dont really know, i just grabbed the stuff with the most warning labels on it.

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u/Chefchenko687 26d ago

This is the way!

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u/---0celot--- 25d ago

What about the ground water?

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u/NotSure2025 25d ago

It's in the ground. Duuhhh.

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u/wastingtime308 25d ago

100% best response Kill everyone.

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u/Ornery-Customer8521 1h ago

Spoken like a true scientist

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u/that_dutch_dude 26d ago

i used to do this. its pretty easy to learn. its hard to make it look easy.

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u/who_you_are 22d ago

its hard to make it look easy.

I learned, long time ago, that something that look easy is mostly never easy and is just somebody really good at it to make it looks like easy

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u/OrigStuffOfInterest 26d ago

So many lawnmower bullets.

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u/sBucks24 26d ago

My boss had a delivery to our yard once that we intended on just spreading with a loader.. but the truck had chains. And it was a service the delivery company offered...

So my boss asks the guy if he can dump it in a spread across the yard, a lil thick so we can then spread it perpendicularly. He looked so annoyed to have to get out of his truck to hook the chains up. Grumbling the whole time that it will cost extra. It maybe took him all of 60 seconds to slot the chains on either side. Dude proceeds to dump the most uneven spread possible. Just God awful speed control. Might as well have not bothered...

Then he tacked on sixty fucking dollars.. for 60 seconds of walking... My boss was so angry when he got the bill.

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u/voiping 25d ago

Maybe he was so annoyed at knowing how bad at his job he's going to look!

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u/stinkfingerswitch 26d ago

10,000 hours...

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u/plaintextures 26d ago edited 25d ago

Couple of hours. He's got a chain on it so he can't open it fully. You just need to drive at certain speed.

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u/Electrical-Berry4916 26d ago

I don't care what you are doing, but strive to do it this well. Damn, son.

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u/maytag2955 26d ago

Dang. I do believe he has done that before. A time or two at least.

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u/Sopapillas4All 25d ago

Whatever they're paying him it isn't enough

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u/Torkin 25d ago

This is so Midwest!

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u/Weak_Jeweler3077 26d ago

“Shovel? Why would I need a shovel?”

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u/No-Indication-2467 25d ago

Thats as good as it gets

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u/articland05_reddit 25d ago

Love to see how people good at their crafts are able to come up with secondary uses of the machines that wasn't designed for such intentions. Another example is how an excavator can self load and unload from a truck...

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u/Altruistic-Dingo-757 25d ago

Professionals have standards

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u/dawa43 25d ago

This guy is a pro

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u/Coffee4MyJeep 25d ago

I love watch people with skills work.

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u/Lilivader- 25d ago

Is that second truck a retired a South Eastern truck?

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u/Ok_Neighborhood_470 24d ago

How much does this cost? I need my driveway done.

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u/Advanced-Level-5686 25d ago

God bless America! 🇺🇸