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