For Michael’s Paving Company in Wisconsin, they chose a 2-gang drill with the idea that it would be enough to keep up with two jobs at the same time. According to Ryan Ramthun, project manager for a paving project on Highway 45 north of Oshkosh, the E-Z Drill Model 210B-2 SRA is more than up to the task. At night, the drill is on Highway 96 in Appleton, drilling holes on a full-depth repair project. During the day, the drill is back on a 4.5 mile stretch of Highway 45, where Michael’s Paving is converting the two-lane highway into a four-lane. The tricky part is that they only have 80 days to get the two southbound lanes repaired and open to traffic. They have already opened up 59 patches that had to be repaired that included drilling 1 3/8” diameter holes 9” deep for their 18” dowels.
Ramthun said he “loves to watch that drill run”, and that it has made them more efficient. The drilling is keeping ahead of the paving to the extent that the operator doesn’t have to run the drill all day, freeing him up for other duties.