Equipment Lays Path to Paving Incentives

Created: April 23, 2012

Despite being a year ahead of schedule, Shelly & Sands is maintaining quality and exceeding IRI pavement smoothness requirements

Shelly & Sands can pave ramps in half the time with its new GOMACO Commander III with IDBI attachment.
Shelly & Sands can pave ramps in half the time with its new GOMACO Commander III with IDBI attachment.
Shelly & Sands Inc. is paving Ohio's U.S. Route 24 with a GOMACO paving train, which includes a GHP-2800 with IDBI.
Shelly & Sands Inc. is paving Ohio's U.S. Route 24 with a GOMACO paving train, which includes a GHP-2800 with IDBI.
A front-mounted bar inserter on the four-track Commander III places a number five bar for the ramp's longitudinal joint every 26 in.
A front-mounted bar inserter on the four-track Commander III places a number five bar for the ramp's longitudinal joint every 26 in.
An orange paint dot marks the insertion spot of the independent IDBI attachment's dowel bar for the transverse joint.
An orange paint dot marks the insertion spot of the independent IDBI attachment's dowel bar for the transverse joint.
A T/C-600 texture/cure machine applies a longitudinal tine finish and white spray cure to the surface of new U.S. Route 24.
A T/C-600 texture/cure machine applies a longitudinal tine finish and white spray cure to the surface of new U.S. Route 24.

“On a typical 700-cu.-yd. ramp, it would have taken us 12 to 14 hours for setting dowel baskets, tie bars and paving,” says Johnny VanDyne, paving crew foreman. “With this machine, we have about five hours in total slipping it.”

The IDBI attachment placed 16 bars on 12-in. centers across the width of the ramp. Transverse joints were placed at 15-ft. intervals. The Commander III is also equipped with a front-mounted and two hydraulic, side-mounted bar inserters.

“Before the Commander III with IDBI attachment, each one of the ramps would have been an all-day project for us,” Little says. “Now, with the GOMACO machines, we slipped each one in approximately five hours, using two to three less laborers on the crew.”