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International Road Federation
Illustrates nine steps for repair of base and subbase. Shows on-site tests of moisture content of subgrade and base materials.
MN0100 12:00 Base Repair
Utah DOT
Base repair is the elimination of the cause of base failure. This involves many steps, outlined on this tape.
MN0150 12:00 Base Repair [Spanish]
Utah DOT
Base repair is the elimination of the cause of base failure. This involves many steps, outlined on this tape.
MN0200 11:45 Blade Patching
New Mexico DOT
This video shows how to patch roadways with a blade.
MN0250 22:00 Blading Unpaved Roads
National Association of County Engineers/Federal Highway Administration
The tape describes using a motor grader to maintain unpaved roads. It shows the operation of the motor grader at intersections, railroad crossings, driveways, and bridges.
MN0300 21:00 Common Maintenance Problems & Causes
International Road Federation
Six causes of maintenance problems in seven maintenance areas are discussed. Understanding the causes of maintenance problems will aid in their prevention and promote better repairs.
MN0350 8:00 Creating Meadows Through Road
Maintenance
USDA Forest Service
Presents methods to restore or preserve meadowlands and wetlands along low-volume roads. Methods shown are replacement culverts in eroded channels, Jersey barrier walls in front of culverts, and elbows on culverts on the upstream side of the road.
MN0400 12:25 Edge Rut Repair & Grade Gravel Shoulder
[Spanish]
Utah DOT
This video shows examples of using a grader to fix edge ruts and to repair shoulders.
MN0425 18:00 Forest Roads and the Environment
USDA Forest Service, FHWA
How roads and environment interact with each other highlighting several issues that benefit from proper maintenance activities, including water temperature, fish habitat and aggregate surfacing loss.
MN0450 57:50 Highway Maintenance:
1) Maintenance Supervisor’s Responsibilities
2) Patching PCC with PCC
3) Patching PCC
Utah DOT
This tape presents an overview of highway maintenance and includes procedures for traffic control in maintenance and construction areas.
MN0500 2:03:08 Highway Maintenance:
1) Overview: Traffic Control Work Areas
2) The Flagger
3) Traffic Control in Moving
Utah DOT
This tape presents an overview of highway maintenance and includes procedures for traffic control in maintenance and construction areas.
MN0550 1:46:00 Highway Maintenance:
1) Patching With Hand Tools
2) Maintenance for Non-Hard Surfaces
Utah DOT
This tape presents an overview of highway maintenance and includes procedures for patching with hand tools and maintenance for non-hard surfaces.
MN0600 1:54:41 Highway Maintenance:
1) Routine Structure Cleaning
2) Edge Rut Repair
3) Maintain Drainage
4) Mowing/Chemical
Utah DOT
This tape presents an overview of highway maintenance and includes procedures for traffic control in maintenance and construction areas.
MN0615 26:00 Highway Sanders & Highway Sander Calibration
Utah DOT
This video demonstrates the use and care of a truck–mounted hydraulic sander for distributing de–icing materials. Mounting and hookup in a dump truck bed is shown, and an operator walks through daily maintenance checks, focusing on oil levels, the dump box, and the spinner. Sanding controls are demonstrated, and the issue of when to sand is discussed. Cleanup and storage are also shown.
MN0625 18:30 The Importance of Road Drainage
Federal Highway Administration, LTAP
This video provides reasons for ensuring proper drainage on roadways. Included in here are surface and subsurface drainage systems and their inspection.
Technology
Strategic Highway Research Program
This video presents techniques and equipment such as pothole patchers, a fault meter for measuring differences in joint elevations and a vacuum tester for joint seal leaks.
MN0650 19:54 Low Profile Treatment Methods for R/W
Dow Elanco
[Promotional video supplied by vendor.]
MN0700 10:11 Maintain Drainage [Spanish]
Utah DOT
This video shows the damage that water can do to pavements and the importance of maintaining drainage. Through typical drainage problems, the video shows these steps for maintaining drainage: 1) establish traffic control,
2) determine the cause of the problem by examining inlets and outlets and the condition of the drainage features, and 3) apply corrective actions. Utilizes both lecture and demonstration instructional format.
MN0750 10:20 Maintain Non-Hard Surfaces [Spanish]
Utah DOT
This video shows the correct procedures for gravel road maintenance. It demonstrates how to grade the road, taking into consideration moisture, shape and drainage. Utilizes both lecture and demonstration instructional format.
MN0775 16:00 Maintaining the Ditch and Surface Cross Drains
USDA Forest Service, FHWA
This provides comprehensive instructions for correctly constructing and maintaining ditches, culverts and various surface cross drains. Highlighted in this video are surface cross drains such as rolling dips, earthen water bars and interceptor dips.
MN0800 21:30 Pavement Repair: Do the Right Thing at the
Right Time
Minnesota DOT, 1991
A local homeowner walks the viewer through the basics of pavement maintenance. He explains why asphalt pavements break up; the consequences of broken pavement; how local transportation agencies gather data on roads and alternatives for pavement rehabilitation. He utilizes both lecture and demonstration instructional format.
MN0825 42:53 Pavement Structure Repair Technologies (Tape 2)
Federal Highway Administration
A detailed description of the methods and steps used in shoulder maintenance and in asphalt chip seals. Instructions are specific to each problem addressed.
MN0840 30:00 Preventative Maintenance Project Selection
FHWA, Foundation for Pavement Preservation
This video explains how planning is critical in providing cost effective treatments that preserve the roadway, retard deterioration, and improve the functional conditions of the road.
MN0845 16:00 Reading the Traveled Way
USDA Forest Service, FHWA
Learn to quickly identify what the road is “saying.” This segment focuses on understanding what the condition of the road is and providing insights on how to proactively avoid costly repairs by properly addressing the road in its current condition.
MN0846 16:30 Reading Beyond the Traveled Way
USDA Forest Service, FHWA
Properly maintained roads require an understanding of what is happening beyond the road surface. Considering the natural functions before beginning maintenance operations can help minimize significant impacts to the road.
MN0850 22:40 Remove Minor Slides & Clean Out Ditches
Utah DOT
This video demonstrates removing minor slides and cleaning out ditches in several steps: setting up traffic control, piling up excess material with heavy equipment, loading trucks, and cleaning up. Because minor slides involve removing a great deal of material, special attention is paid to maintaining the original grade and back slope of the worksite.
MN0900 14:04 Remove Minor Slides & Clean Out Ditches
[Spanish]
Utah DOT
This video demonstrates removing minor slides and cleaning out ditches in several steps: setting up traffic control, piling up excess material with heavy equipment, loading trucks, and cleaning up. Because minor slides involve removing a great deal of material, special attention is paid to maintaining the original grade and back slope of the worksite.
MN0950 14:00 Repair of Depressions, Rutting and Corrugations
International Road Federation
The basic repair method for depressions, rutting and corrugations is to fill in the low areas with a leveling course of asphalt concrete and then to overlay the entire area with a wearing course. This video describes the proper procedures for using this repair method with a motor grader using eight work steps. Special considerations for placing and compacting each layer in a deep depression are illustrated. The video also shows how to place and compact a thin overlay over the leveling course.
MN1000 19:00 Replenishing Earth & Gravel Shoulders
International Road Federation
Nine maintenance work steps to restore the unpaved shoulder by adding new material are shown in this video. Proper procedures are fully presented for preparing the existing shoulder surface before adding additional material, placing and spreading additional material, and compacting the material. The most efficient equipment and materials are discussed, as well as proper use of the equipment.
MN1050 16:00 Reshaping Earth & Gravel Shoulders
International Road Federation
This video shows the procedures for reshaping earth and gravel shoulders with proper cross slope. A nine‑step maintenance procedure is presented step‑by‑step and the equipment and hand tools required are also discussed.
MN1100 4:00 Retro-fitted Load Transfer Devices
Indiana DOT/Keystone Engineering
This video provides a brief introduction to the repair of cracks in jointed concrete pavement. Carbide grinding is used to dry‑mill slots in the surface and epoxy coated rebar is to establish load transfer across pavement cracks. After the short sections of rebar are placed, the slots are backfilled with a high‑strength rapid‑setting mortar. This technique is intended to prevent pavement faulting, restrain future lateral movement, and transfer movement expansion and contraction to the pavement joints.
MN1125 Varies Rural Road Maintenance
USDA Forest Service, FHWA
Set of 5 videos covering topics from Reading the Traveled Way (and Beyond the Traveled Way) to Smoothing and Reshaping, Maintaining the Ditch and Surface Cross Drains, and Forest Roads and the Environment. Individual videos are all under 18:00 minutes. *Videos may also be checked out individually (look for the above titles in the Maintenance section of the catalog.)
MN1135 17:30 Smoothing and Reshaping the Traveled Way
USDA Forest Service, FHWA
This video covers detailed step by step processes used for both smoothing and reshaping a road.
*Crowned Roads *Insloped Roads
*Outsloped Roads *Transition Sections
MN1150 16:21 Subsurface Utility Engineering – A Proven
Solution
Federal Highway Administration
This video discusses the process known as subsurface utility engineering, which accurately maps underground utilities and structures for use in the development of future construction projects. Utilizes a lecture format.
MN1200 11:45 Technical Advancements for Maintenance
Workers (Chief Administrative Officers)
Strategic Highway Research Program
This video presents the status of research activities in the areas of maintenance cost effectiveness and snow and ice control. These include an overview of safety research (barriers, lights and warning devices) and productivity improvements. The emphasis is on reducing costs and improving safety and public satisfaction (the need to get in and get out quickly and not have to return).
MN1250 14:45 Technical Advancements for Maintenance
Workers (Maintenance Managers & Work Crews)
Strategic Highway Research Program
This video presents a status report on how research efforts undertaken by the Strategic Highway Research Program will affect maintenance operations. The four primary areas of concern involve improved pavement repair techniques, pavement preventive maintenance, snow and ice control, and short-term work zone safety.