Does Asphalt Ever Need an Artistic Touch? Yes! | Watch FCP

This specific technique is crucial to filling in divots and gaps in the mat, but it isn't easy to pick up.

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The crew barely spoke. Brandon Noel called it the quietest job site he had ever worked, and said watching them move looked like a dance. Then one of them stopped to teach him broadcasting: half a shovel of hot mix, thrown low and flat across the mat, filling the voids left behind in the middle of a pass. Done properly the material settles itself and nobody has to rake it. Noel tried it and earned a four. Then they finally let him take a roller across hot asphalt.


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