MARVIN JOLES III CHRIS TAMMANY
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MARVIN JOLES III CHRIS TAMMANY
II have to be honest , LinkedIn has been the Asphalt Industry “ Hot-Spot ” for me as of late . I pop in there daily to post and see what my constituents comment about my posts . My posts are often about something going on at BB . Sometimes about Wis- Coat , though it ’ s our off-season . I also share about my life on there . Things like my observations on being a father in today ’ s world , experiences in being a husband in a complicated world and philosophies on the individual , yet community oriented , journey … that most of us are on . In my community , I have a friend who also uses LinkedIn and posts on that platform regularly , Chris Tammany . Chris is Owner and President at Petra Paving in New Hampshire . He is also an industry mentor that shares the ropes of this space to a lot of us that are still building their asphalt businesses and dealing with life in the process . We are thankful for that , at least I am . Late last year Chris shared a post about a project they were hired for , to fix a depression in a driveway , a deep one . In the post Chris shared that the contractor who installed the base and driveway performed a “ Stump Dump ”. A process in which a contractor uses stumps , taken in the process of clearing the land , and uses them as filler in the base . Which using common sense , would tell us that those will degrade over time and cause air voids . Which will fill in
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