I have been various pieces of equipment over the last 14 years. My question is "when operating a self propelled vibrating drum packer do you have to shut off the vibrating mode when you change forward to backing up and vice versa". Also why?
It will leave a depression where you stopped causing a bump in the stone, asphalt, sand, etc. It can also hurt asphalt. It just depends what application you are doing to when it really shows up and screw things up. Rolling asphalt, it really screws things up. Rolling stone, not so much but there will be a dip.
The reason I'm asking, is that while I don't have a whole world of experience on rollers, I do have some, and to me it seems that, for the moment between when you stop moving forward, and when you start moving backward, you're sitting still in one place, vibrating, and that would cause a depression.
Yes I'm rolling dirt