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Rubber Hits The Road In Northbridge

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All State Asphalt of Sunderland, MA worked on the road restoration project on Mendon Road and Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
The temperature shows the asphalt/rubber mixture inside this tank truck to be not quite 350 degrees. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthhier
Highway Superintendent Rob Van Meter talks with workers from All State Asphalt. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
The signs on an All State Asphalt truck says it all. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
A large tanker of hot asphalt rubber transfers the product to a smaller tanker being used in the Mendon Road restoration project Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Small, asphalt-coated stone used in the hot-in-place recycling program on Mendon Road and Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
The sheen of newly-laid asphalt rubber on Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Asphalt rubber is laid on Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Asphalt rubber is laid on Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Asphalt rubber is laid on Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
A chip spreader spreads small stones on top of newly-laid asphalt rubber on Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Newly-laid chips on top of recently-read asphalt rubber. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Rolelrs ride over newly-laid stone chips to lock the irregularly-shaped pieces together. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
A chip spread prepares to connect to a truck hopper containing stone chips. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
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Steam rises from hot asphalt rubber as its spread on Quaker Street. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
A hopper feeds small stone to conveyer belts on a chip spreader. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Joe Hendricks operates the chip spreader for All-State Asphalt. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
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Stone chips being spread onto Quaker Street can be seen to the right of the workman's foot. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
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Chips on the conveyor belt of the chip spreader. Photo Credit: Deborah Gauthier
Read the Article Northbridge Road Project Heated And Completed

NORTHBRIDGE, Mass. – One worker, his body under clothing encased in a suit of circulating ice and water, his head and face protected with helmet and shield, rode on the back of an asphalt truck last Friday morning as it sprayed a layer of asphalt rubber to Quaker Street.

The asphalt was blended with the rubber of scrap tire treads and heated to more than 350 degrees. The hot, dangerous job of the boot man is to use a pick to unclog spigots that sometimes are blocked by the mixture.

The inky black of the rubber asphalt is green for the Northbridge Department of Public ...
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