still soft and soggy

[NorcoBoy]

:mad: :mad: popped up the hill for a blast yesterday to find the trails are starting to dry out nicely.they are still a bit wet near the tabletop jump,maybe some work still needs doing to that part of the track,maybe we can get some hardcore and a wackerplate to really sort it out once and for all because every time it rains all the water will end up there at the bottom.maybe someone has got a better idea to resolve the wet areas at the bottom.:D

[Will]

InfraRed heaters, or a big fan or even a roof over the top of them ;)

[carrerabiker]

get a permemant gezebo over all the rearly soggy bits

[Cookie]

realistic ideas?

anyway.. if you got a roof over the tables all the water running off the hill and tracks will get stuk there anyway. think about it.

[Xpink]

puddle suckers??? like to suck up all the puddles lol, and then chuck on loads of that road stuff or make a path of breezeblocks that we have just lying there next to the fire road????

[Baker]

as cookie said, the main cause of the water before the 1st table is through flow of watin in the hill. It is made up of layers of say top soil, gravel dirt and clay so therefore water soaks through and flows through the more permeable surface. The bad thing is, we dug down to this layer allowing the water to come out of the ground, and soak the jump!!!

Hope this explains it

[Will]

so baker explain... as clay is a non pourous rock how does water permiate or sock through it lol

[Baker]

hmmm let me consult my encyclopaedia

[mr fish]

i think Bakers explantion is about there ;) if you imagine that the area and i mean the whole area (hamhill) is like a big raspberry ripple icecream of silt(topsoil) sand and aggregate and clay in layers, every now and then where water is trapped under the clay it will find by gravity the easiest way to flowout and down.............so by careful study and a bit of luck we should over a period of time by way of culverts and soakaways be able to manage the worst of natures effects................oh and throw in some TEAMWORK ;)

[NorcoBoy]

i think Bakers explantion is about there ;) if you imagine that the area and i mean the whole area (hamhill) is like a big raspberry ripple icecream of silt(topsoil) sand and aggregate and clay in layers, every now and then where water is trapped under the clay it will find by gravity the easiest way to flowout and down.............so by careful study and a bit of luck we should over a period of time by way of culverts and soakaways be able to manage the worst of natures effects................oh and throw in some TEAMWORK ;)
When I Crashed the other day and ate the dirt beleive me fish it didnt taste like raspberry ripple ice-cream mate,it tasted of mouldy sh*t.:nono:

[NorcoBoy]

we will have to pull together and sort out the soggy areas as they will wreck the track and more and more maintanance will be required,maybe some more hardcore would be good,i dont mind barrowing it down the hill again if it resolves the gloopy bits:D :D