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Nobby's Betamax Video
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Also looks like they've installed the seating rails in the WSU. At least to the half way line from the southern end.
They've been busy putting in the barriers at each end of the South Stand too.
They've been busy putting in the barriers at each end of the South Stand too.
More pipes?! Don't think so! More mud, then GRASS.
EastbourneGull
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- Oct 1, 2008
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Wrong I think. The blue pipes were drainage, the black pipes were for the sprinkler system. Undersoil heating pipes go in next. They'll be narrower pipes and aligned much more closely together. Then more mud and grass seed.
Is the correct answer.
Horsham Gull
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are they having the day off today nothing much seems to be going on?
sjamesb3466
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Looks nicely prepared for undersoil heating to me 
So.CalGull
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This has already been posted before, timing wise it seems about right though, and should clear up what undersoil heating looks like.
Nobby's Betamax Video
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Cheers So.CalGull. I'm sure it's hidden on the original thread for this, but do you know the rough duration this video covers?
Coleby1007
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That is one of the most satisfying videos ive ever watched
Norman Baker suck my lozenge
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very good
So.CalGull
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For some reason, and I have nothing to back it up, but I seem to remember the laying of the pipes, and the covering of the topsoil and final grooming stages took less than a week, the grass growing part, no idea. Anyone....?
Nobby's Betamax Video
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Cheers So.CalGull. Aren't we doing something a bit clever with the use of synthetics in the pitch (Desso or something similar)? I recall seeing a Desso Grassmaster video of their installation at Cardiff, but I'm unsure now which supplier / system we're using now....which will have a bearing on timescales.
I'm sure it's this stuff but not sure of the supplier.
Fibrelastic evolution of Sports Turf, Sports Pitches
So.CalGull
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Mr Burns
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I thought this, but someone I know who works at the club, insisits the undersoil heating is already in. Its not pipes its on sheets, along the lines of the sort you get in bathrooms, but on an industral scale. If it was those sheets that went in a while back, I'd have thought they'd be too deep to defrost anything!!
Horton's halftime iceberg
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Wow, I don't quite get it but one crazy knitting machine, he said it takes about three weeks to do a pitch and it sews in 20 million fibres, deep into the pitch.
It will be fun to watch that machine slowly move around the pitch, results look fantastic and prevent bald patches on the pitch.
It will be fun to watch that machine slowly move around the pitch, results look fantastic and prevent bald patches on the pitch.
Nobby's Betamax Video
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Cheers Whitelion. Clicking the link and having a quick scan through, it is definitely this one (the Albion Badge is the 1st clue & if you click on the "news" tab there is an article re: Albion being latest client). There's also an interesting article from "The Groundsman" magazine with Steve Winterburn about the choice of product!
Looks like they've got John Inverdale spreading the word for them and the photo of the Ibrox pitch looks fantastic.
It looks like there's "knitting" involve ala Desso and that the mix they've just spread on the pitch could be the Fibrelastic Rootzone? If so, it appears that they "simply" add the topsoil & seeds and off they go.
Thanks to you too Nobby. Didn't have the patience yesterday to browse this website.
The Groundsman December 2010