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Field conditions at Ohio Stadium

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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;845350; said:
First time I remember seeing fieldturf was watching the independence bowl from Shreveport Louisiana. That stuff was very loose... looked like the players were playing on a bounceless trampoline. They've sure come a long way since then.
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What's a bounceless trampoline? Doesn't that defeat the point?
 
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Buckeyeskickbuttocks;845952; said:
Imagine walking on a trampoline. How it gives is what I was attempting to describe. And, yes, a bouncelss trampoline would defeat the point - if my point had anything to do with wanting to buy or sell such a trampoline.
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Ok. I guess I understand. But now I want to see people play football on a big trampoline. Just running on it might be pretty funny. Didn't Spike TV or someone try to have a trampoline basketball league, or something?
 
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Zurp;845932; said:
What's topdressing?
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On a natural grass field, topdressing consists of evenly spreading sand, soil, or some other material on the surface and then dragging or brushing it down to the soil surface. In this case, with the fieldturf, topdressing means spreading dried silica sand and crumb rubber on the surface then dragging or brushing it down to the base of the carpet, essentially filling the two or three inch area of the fibers with the two materials.
 
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coastalbuck;845901; said:
this will take a while folks.
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coastalbuck;845966; said:
In this case, with the fieldturf, topdressing means spreading dried silica sand and crumb rubber on the surface then dragging or brushing it down to the base of the carpet, essentially filling the two or three inch area of the fibers with the two materials.
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Why does it take a while? Does it take a lot of pases to drag or brush it down to the base of the carpet? Or does it take a while to spread the dried silica and crumb rubber? Both?
 
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It takes a long time because it's alot of material, I mean a whole lot of material. 2 or 3 inches over that area is probably close to 8 or 9 HUNDRED tons. I just put 1 in. of sand on 72,000 sq. ft. and I think it was 3 or 4 hundred tons. Not to mention, unless they have changed, fieldturf is picky about how they add material. They put down some sand, brush it in, put down some rubber, brush it in, ect. ect. ect.
 
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coastalbuck;846145; said:
It takes a long time because it's alot of material, I mean a whole lot of material. 2 or 3 inches over that area is probably close to 8 or 9 HUNDRED tons. I just put 1 in. of sand on 72,000 sq. ft. and I think it was 3 or 4 hundred tons. Not to mention, unless they have changed, fieldturf is picky about how they add material. They put down some sand, brush it in, put down some rubber, brush it in, ect. ect. ect.
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That's correct. Field turf has several videos about the process:

http://www.fieldturf.com/product/techInfo.cfm
 
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coastalbuck;846145; said:
It takes a long time because it's alot of material, I mean a whole lot of material. 2 or 3 inches over that area is probably close to 8 or 9 HUNDRED tons. I just put 1 in. of sand on 72,000 sq. ft. and I think it was 3 or 4 hundred tons. Not to mention, unless they have changed, fieldturf is picky about how they add material. They put down some sand, brush it in, put down some rubber, brush it in, ect. ect. ect.
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i counted 107-4000lb pallets of silica sand on the east corner of the stadium so that is 428,000 lbs of silica sand they gotta lay down
 
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