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Building a road, car park or large drive takes several different types of machine. One of the most important is the asphalt paver. Asphalt concrete paving is far more complex than almost everyone would think and takes several steps to get it done right. As well as skilled trades folks who follow all of the required steps to get this task done, there’s a number of asphalt paving equipment that’s terribly important as well . There are a few sorts of asphalt pavers including : Barber Greene pavers, Blaw Knox pavers, Lee Boy asphalt pavers, Road Tec asphalt pavers and the Ingersoll Rand Paver. For some contractors, the choice is a matter of brand fidelity, for others it may only be personal preference. Some contractors will only have one name for all hardware that they own, while others may have a wide range of names on their hardware lot. There are a lot of considerations to keep in mind when searching for a new or used asphalt paver including reliability, features, price and payback time. If the machine is predicted to fail before it pays back its purchase price then it is a bad choice and you must shop on.

The Asphalt Paver should be as reliable as the other sides of your paving business and should not be the weak link in the chain, holding things up. If the paver is broken down, then nothing is going to get done on that day. Once the grader has prepared the road, lot or drive, then the asphalt paver should be in a position to go also.

For the new Asphalt Paver road contractor, ensure that you are reading industry reports and other information that can help select the most reliable brand of asphalt paver, making sure that you know which have the best features, which features that you can do without and which have the best price for their size and ability. As well as keeping an eye on which have the best features ( that you do need ) ensure that you look at any reports of recalls or grumbles that been filed about the model that you’re looking at.

There are a number of places where you can buy your new or used asphalt paver, including auctions both live and on the internet. Before you bid though, make sure that you know as much info as feasible about the machine that you are going to purchase. If you are searching for an asphalt paver in a local retailer or at an auction, then investigate it completely before you purchase. In addition, make sure that you figure out the payback time for the paver by figuring out its cost per use and then working out how many jobs a year times how many years it would take to recover the acquisition price. If not cannot recoup the price of the machine in the reckoned length of its usability, consider the lower price machine instead. Asphalt Paver

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The steady drone of chain-sawing from nearby and distant olive groves can only mean that winter is fast approaching. For (as Pooh would have noted) chain-sawing means wood piles, and olive logs, and wood stoves (zompas), with maybe a little something simmering on the top. And cosy evenings with shutters closed, and crosswords, music, books, or DVD of your choice as temperatures fall and winds rise outside.

Crete though has an average of 300 days of sunshine annually, and statistically 22 of these fall in November, so don’t put the walking gear away yet. But shorter days require shorter walks, and this one, from Krios beach over to Vienna, approx. 45 minutes each way, is ideal.
Krios is 9km west of Paleochora, at the end of the road, although the E4 footpath continues to Elafonisi (see below). There’s a twice-a-day bus (around 7.00am and 2.00pm, check in the bus station), or drive/take a taxi ; the 2-hour walk through Koundoura is uninspiring once the road leaves the coast, and not recommended.

As with Kadros, we first visited Vienna with Tony Fennymore, and his notes, included here, will provide much information as to what to see and look for there. From the car park and taverna on Krios beach, walk along the shore to a rocky promontory, and climb over this to a small sheltered bay with a rock islet offshore. At the far end of the beach the path heads inland, way-marked with cairns and E4 black/yellow paint, climbing to join a rough track. Leave the track at a cairn, and take a path, left, gradually losing height, eventually veering left down a rather loose gully to reach the sea.

Vienna is a fascinating place, where “there would appear to be a partially man-made anchorage out of a natural, protected harbour, and the remains of a Hellenistic/Roman sanctuary.” On the shore are the broken remains of several marble columns, which Tony believed once formed a temple here. “The actual building appears to have been located just a short distance back from the shoreline, where there is a raised platform for a room, with a ramp down to the sea, and the columns appear to have formed a portico/arcade at the front.” Where the columns came from, or how they arrived here, is a Stonehenge-like enigma, as they “are of marble or a type of red granite which does not appear to be of local origin.”

So why was a temple built here? Tony thought that it “could well have been a sanctuary or place of worship, and acted as a place of pilgrimage when voyaging around the headland”, and where libations and offerings were made before or after a long and hazardous sea journey.
Shards and fragments of pottery are everywhere, the remains of vessels once containing oil or wine. Tony speculates on the importance of the natural cave in the outcrop high above the cove. “The cave is no doubt the ‘key’ to the site, although there is no evidence whatsoever of any human habitation or use of the cave as a place of worship. In ancient times it could have been deemed to be a ‘home’ of one of the Gods/Goddesses, and it may have been capable of producing natural sounds, ie. from the wind – a sign that the Gods were speaking, or a Siren.” The Sirens were mythical sea-nymphs who lured passing sailors to their deaths with their sweetness of song. Odysseus, who possibly passed this way, filled his crew’s ears with wax, and lashed himself to the ship’s mast, to avoid such a fate. The climb to the cave takes around 20 minutes, and provides a fine retrospective view of the bay, but nothing of historical importance.

The water level in Hellenistic times (323 – 67BC) would have been far deeper than now, due to the raising of the level of the shoreline at this end of the island. “The cove/lagoon has a natural mole to form this protected anchorage, and it would appear that rocks have been cleared away from the cove so as to facilitate the mooring of boats. No doubt the cove was an ideal lair for pirates, and the site would have been looted.”

Water was of course essential, and “to the east of the platform is evidence of a well or pit, an important feature insomuch as the anchorage could well have been a stopping place to replenish water supplies of the boats.”

So what happened here? “From the various positions of the columns, the sanctuary was either badly damaged by an earthquake, or some attempt has been made to remove the columns for re-use.” That is, the site was destroyed and ransacked. Quietly contemplating before walking back to Krios, sitting on a column brought here over two thousand years ago, only one thing is certain – we shall never really know ……

So, ‘kalo xeimonas’ – have a good winter, and remember the words of the poet Shelley:
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind ?” In just a few weeks time the almond blossom will be appearing, and soon afterwards the cherry trees will be “hung with bloom along the bough.”

The 10km walk from Krios to Elafonisi is described in our book ‘Ten Walks around Paleohora’ by Bob & Lynne Tait, available from ‘To Delfini’ bookshop in Paleochora.

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