The township road Commissioner I worked for in western Illinois, 20 miles east and a little south used heavy Bituminous oil to seal their dirt roads, and they spread limestone chips on the roads to dry up the oil and give the surface strength and volume. We had our own oil heater, the oil in the rail cars we got in was 70 degrees, barely flowed out of the cars, the heater got it up to 150 to 170 degrees, very fluid so it sprayed well, and we had the oiler too. First year I was the poor guy on the back of the oiler, turn the oil on & off, raise the boom end for narrow bridges. My ratty old coveralls could stand by themselves they had so much oil in/on them, had a hand towel I wiped the Vasoline off I smeared all over my face, had Mom sew a hand towel onto the sweat band of a solid cloth cap to keep oil out of my ears & hair. I burned my work shoes, cap, coveralls, couple towels, used an entire BIG jar of Vaseline. The next year I sanded & chipped the roads. It costs a LOT of money to pave blacktop roads thru all these rural areas. Between the 1st & 2nd year I worked oiling, the cost of oil went from a Penny or two per gallon to a DIME. WE didn't oil near as much that 2nd year. I'd to know what the oil costs now!
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