|
|
Joined:
August 2009
Posts: 197
Location: Pennsylvania | Originally posted by Gallerinski:
They scrap off about 2 inches of existing soil/sod and put down a weed/grass killing chemical and then cover with very fine sand (like dust), which I was told is crushed granite. They pack it down with a machine and then lay the fake grass on top of it. The grass is then covered fine black rubber dust that's made from recycled car tires and it's worked into the subsurface. The weight of the rubber is actually what holds it down. Ever see a slow-motion tackle on a football game and there is a little black dust coming off the turf? That's what it is. But it's worked into the "roots" so far that you'd really have to smack it to get any flying up. I guess a 300 lb lineman could do it but I can't. When I was in Peoria, AZ in 1985 I saw a few yards that were completely concrete and painted green. Glad to see that the technology is much more advanced and realistic looking now. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
December 2009
Posts: 143
Location: Ontario Canada | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Probably would have been OK if it was faded green, but it's blue here. Hello Mark,
That's a new one, not Kentucky blue grass but Idaho blue grass.
Jim |
|
| |
|
Joined:
August 2002
Posts: 8307
Location: Tennessee | My son has been playing football on field turf for about five years now, and my other son has been playing lacrosse on turf like this for more than that. Almost all of the football fields in our area here are made out of this stuff now. We too get a lot of sunshine and fairly warm weather, and it does hold up real well. I've spent a lot of time on the field and the "grass" is really great stuff. Really nice to run on, and totally different than the astroturf I played on (or shall I say bled on) because it doesn't scrape you up. Also no turf toe, it eliminates most all knee and ankle injuries from cleats sticking when you cut, and like Mark said it had good cushioning for heads and other hard hits. Every few years they need to put down some new rubber into the turf, but so far that's it. It has been a huge cost savings for our schools here even with the large initial investment.
I'm just waiting for the designer colors and patterns to become available. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2003
Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | Back in '70 the track around the football field was.... I kid you not... cinders. Big black, chunky, glassy rocks with razor sharp edges. You did not want to fall. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
February 2005
Posts: 11840
Location: closely held secret | We still have that... except it's crushed lava. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
September 2003
Posts: 9301
Location: south east Michigan | yeah... thats the stuff. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2004
Posts: 2850
Location: Midland, MI | Originally posted by Slipkid:
Back in '70 the track around the football field was.... I kid you not... cinders. Big black, chunky, glassy rocks with razor sharp edges. You did not want to fall. In high school, one of our "away" cross-country meets was at a high school with a cinder track. The last quarter-mile of the course was, naturally, a lap around said track. After I finished, I turned around to watch the rest of the pack come in and saw a group of six or seven runners go down in a heap on the last turn. Lots of scraped knees, elbows, hands, &c. I wonder if the athletic director was sadistic or if cinders were just incredibly cheap surfacing material. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
March 2005
Posts: 12759
Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by stonebobbo:
I'm just waiting for the designer colors and patterns to become available. 
Bronco blue is available. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
October 2006
Posts: 5575
Location: big island | so it's already february in arizona? |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2008
Posts: 4996
Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by lanaki:
so it's already february in arizona? Randy the clocks in Hawaii are "behind" Arizona, but not THAT far. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
October 2006
Posts: 5575
Location: big island | i was simply responding to your initial post in this thread...
or since you are selling your calendars, perhaps you don't know what month it is???
love the turf and the guitars nevertheless! |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2008
Posts: 4996
Location: Phoenix AZ | Ah, now I get it. February? Yeah, well the winters in Arizona are short you know. |
|
| |
|
Joined:
April 2008
Posts: 2336
Location: Brighty in Blighty | Its a great shame those lovely pics of grass are ruined by those horrid guitars ;) |
|
| |
|
Joined:
May 2008
Posts: 4996
Location: Phoenix AZ | Plastic guitars on plastic grass |
|
| |
|
Joined:
June 2003
Posts: 1792
Location: Rego Park, NY, | Originally posted by MWoody:
What's "Playboy"? Mike that's the magazines with all the interesting articles in it, or lack of. ;) |
|
| |
OT: Guitars On Grass
