ICYMI: This U.K. machine can repair a pothole in eight minutes — via drivingdotca
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A British company called JCB begs to differ. It has, the company claims, developed a single machine that can, with but one operator, repair a pothole in as little as eight minutes. Eight minutes a pothole. If it weren’t for travel time, that would be six or seven an hour. About 60 or so in a day. More than a 100, if you gave one to the night crew as well.
Now, I am not a civil engineer — my B. Eng. being mechanical — but I don’t think anyone needs higher learning to figure out that that’s a lot quicker than a typical Canadian work crew takes.
JCB says that that the Pro can rebuild such 12-square-metre areas in as little as eight minutes and can — this time including moving locations — perform about 20 such road resurrections in an eight-hour shift. Better yet, despite costing upwards of 165,000 pounds — CDN$270,000 — the company says that Pothole Pro can reduces the per-pothole cost of repair by as much as 50 per cent.
Whatever the case, I can’t think of a jurisdiction in Canada — be it city, town, or just the regional road repair crew — that would not benefit from having a Pothole Pro on the job. Lord knows there’s going to be even more work to be done in a couple of months. So far, sales of the Pro have been limited it the U.K., but JCB says that the accolades coming from existing customers are encouraging it to broaden its horizons.
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