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Does anyone else put their hand on the windscreen when driving through loose chipping

john9876 · 2020-07-25 20:44:10

I now live in the UK and did it yesterday when driving through some loose chippings with a friend from the UK. He asked me what I was doing and I said I'd always done it as everyone did it when I was a child in Ireland. He thought I was mad as he'd never heard of it. Maybe I am mad. Do other people do this or was it some…

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#32 01-08-2020 01:22PM

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They're often used to top the tarmac when the road is resurfaced to make the newly-surfaced road less slippery (at least, that's what I've seen on R roads around here); a steamroller should press them into the tarmac soon after, but more likely than not they're left for days until a road sweeper comes along weeks lster.

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#33 01-08-2020 01:29PM

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I'm doing it all the time on any roads with loose chips, driving nearly 40 years, it is a learned habit, think I'll keep it up, it reassures me...

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I never even knew this was a "think". Nor did I know the CD was meant as more than a decoration. Learn something new every day.

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topper75 wrote: »

I've never seen loose chippings in any other country. Not even Scotland.

Mostly private roads. We put them down on the farm at home on the road where the public road ends. It's probably only on farms that you'd see losses chippings today.

I asked a question about the history of roads construction and there are some very interesting posts here by a user named Tabbey

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin//showthread.php?t=2058095376

That's something almost unique I like about this site, you can pick any topic and someone will always be able to tell you the specific information you're after

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