Driveway/ runway marker/Shelter prep Help On Saturday 4/13

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    • #5816
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      Hi all,

      We have just gotten board approval to do some much needed work to fix the driveway and runway markers!

      We will be having a large load of gravel delivered to the field and we need as many able bodied helpers as possible to move it to all the right places.

      We’ll try to do it this Saturday if enough help is available.  If not, we may have to move it to a later date. So if you’re able to come out and help shovel rocks for a while, post below!

      Also, YOUNG GUYS, please come out and help take care of this for the more “experienced” club members!

      Thanks!

      Also

    • #5817
      Erik SchnaubeltErik Schnaubelt
      Participant

      I’ll be there! What time were you thinking?

      • #5818
        Anonymous
        Inactive

        I haven’t scheduled the delivery yet, but I’m going to aim for 10. Once it
        looks like we’ll have a couple people to help, I’m going to contact the
        gravel company and set the time.

        Also we have a trailer and several of shovels at the field. We could
        however also really use a wheelbarrow if someone has one they can bring and
        a vehicle that can pull the trailer. (something tells me my little civic
        isn’t going to do the trick)

      • #5828
        Anonymous
        Inactive

        The limestone is ordered and all 8 tons will be delivered tomorrow morning
        (the 13th) at 10 AM. Come out and help shovel if you’re able!

        On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 1:41 PM Logan Thomas <logan.a.thomas@gmail.com>
        wrote:

        > I haven’t scheduled the delivery yet, but I’m going to aim for 10. Once it
        > looks like we’ll have a couple people to help, I’m going to contact the
        > gravel company and set the time.
        >
        > Also we have a trailer and several of shovels at the field. We could
        > however also really use a wheelbarrow if someone has one they can bring and
        > a vehicle that can pull the trailer. (something tells me my little civic
        > isn’t going to do the trick)
        >
        > On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 1:34 PM Sky Soaring
        > wrote:
        >
        >

      • #5833
        Anonymous
        Inactive

        Huge thank you to everyone who came out and helped with this today!! It
        made everything go much smoother and the results look great!

    • #5820
      Dennis BurkeDennis Burke
      Participant

      Good luck, hope you ordered the right kind of gravel.
      I was blasted last Spring for getting the wrong type of gravel pea-size, so
      only the East markers got attention, I never finished the West markers.
      Some of the long-term members may want the RW marker gravelstone also
      painted white, later on.

      • #5822
        John PhelanJohn Phelan
        Participant

        Back in the day when I did this, we started with a good dosing of RoundUp or Triox to kill everything in sight, then laid down a couple of inches of crushed limestone (use a coarse crush, not the pulverized stuff). Then ran the roller over it to make sure it didn’t move. If we got weeds mid-summer, we burned then with a torch. Don’t use gasoline to burn them. That will blacken the rock when it burns. Use a propane torch or another blast of RoundUp or Triox.

        Make sure the rock is low enough that the mowers can go over it without damaging the cutting blades.

        I can understand the pea gravel issue. Propwash (and the mowers) will fling pea gravel all over the place, including at the tail of the plane and the glider on tow.

        Stay safe out there.

        Best Regards,

        John F. Phelan

    • #5821
      Laurentiu NicolaeLaurentiu Nicolae
      Participant

      Hi guys,

      I will show up Saturday to help out.

      Lawrence

    • #5823
      Petr FolwarcznyPetr Folwarczny
      Participant

      Hello just make sure every time I respond via email you get my messages too…:-) I will there on Saturday too

    • #5824
      Anonymous
      Inactive

      I was just talking with a coworker. His son’s scout troop is looking for
      some volunteer work to do. He was interested in running the idea of
      helping with this (and possibly other projects in the future) by the
      troop. Might be a great way to get some extra help with some of the
      bigger jobs, and good way for some of those scouts to get exposure to and
      maybe develop an interest in flying.

      Any thoughts?

      • #5825
        Art SilvermanArt Silverman
        Participant

        The help would be greatly appreciated.  Try to arrange it!

        —–Original Message—–
        From: Sky Soaring <webmaster@skysoaring.com>
        To: Arthurttu

      • #5826
        John LincolnJohn Lincoln
        Participant

        Sounds like a good idea. Scouts exposed to soaring can’t be all bad.

        John Lincoln

        • #5827
          Don GrilloDon Grillo
          Keymaster
          There may be insurance issues with non-members being involved in operations. 

    • #5832
      Steven SnyderSteven Snyder
      Participant

      As long as they have supervision they should be ok. We can also offer a free flight to the one you feel works the hardest.  Next step would be to offer to help with the aviation merit badge.

       

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