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YUEN:Okay. Well, our application called it an asphalt concrete batching <br />plant. <br />HARLAN:Right. Well, it wasn€t exactly, the wording wasn€texactly right. <br />YUEN:All right. Okay. Explain that. <br />HARLAN:An asphalt plant is similar to the same thing. It has got three bins <br />to it and a burner. But to do asphalt, it would be maybe once or twice a year at the very <br />most because you just wouldn€t fire up an asphalt plant unless there was a job warrant big <br />enough to do it. <br />YUEN:Is it different? Is it much different? You see these ready-mix <br />trucks,odd-mixtrucksontheroadwherethere-. <br />HARLAN:Okay.Yeah,wehaveoneofthosenowthatmix,thatsitsonthe <br />truck now that mixes the concrete fresh right on the job, which is the same thing. You <br />got half the truck hold sand, the other half holds rock and you got a water tank up front to <br />hold the water and you have a small compartment to hold the cement. And the cement is <br />powder, what it is, and it mixes it together. It€s the same thing as a concrete batch plant <br />but it€s sitting on the truck. <br />YUEN:No, what I mean with asphalt. You see these, I don€t know what <br />you call them but I think that you got those hot-mix machines. I mean, when the State€s <br />doing it, they€re doing an asphalt job on the road and they€re laying asphalt -. <br />HARLAN:Well, that€s the lay-down machine. <br />YUEN:Okay. <br />HARLAN:Yeah, that€s not what we -. <br />YUEN:Okay. And then the asphalt plant melts -. <br />HARLAN:It heats, what the asphalt plant does, it heats the oil up that sticks to <br />the rock that makes, and you put the sand and the rock in the oil and it goes through a <br />heater. It heats it up so it becomes hot so it adheres together, kind of like making a cake <br />or something. You know, you put a little flour in, I mean, a little shortening in to kind of <br />hold everything together; and that€s what that plant does. <br />YUEN:Okay. Thanks. <br />HARLAN:And right on Railroad Avenue, there€s three asphalt plants. And <br />there€s like, I think, three concrete plants and three crushers sitting within like a mile of <br />where we are right now. <br />21 <br /> <br />