col carpenter

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Do you require any specific tools?

Bugle

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Just big hammers and shovels I think..
I'll bring some tools for doing the fence.

too twisted

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Hopefully in the 2nd half of the year.... once your track is finished..... Will this be the venue for the NSW Titles???

X5 Addict

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Hey Ant,

No idea what's happening next week, depends on the weather.

States are at CH this year TT, come here anyway mate!

X5 Addict

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Excellent work with the trench guys! will bring the circular saw (or chain saw!) to cut the sleepers.

ben73

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I just saw a couple of photos from the track at 9:30pm and there are floating retaining walls.....

St Ives got smashed by the rain. totally smashed.

Bugle

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oh wtf
Guess we're going to have to dig a shitload more clay out again.
We need to dig another trench at the top of the track to divert the water coming off the car park around the track.

B4Bandit

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My pleasure mate. I think we did some good work! I'm pretty knackered...

I strongly doubt it due to a few issues:

Who took photos of the track at 9:30 PM? We need to see the pics to verify this claim!!!

I doubt those sleepers would float, and

Although we killed one of their kind, I formed a pact with the funnel webs that if the heavens opened they would run out of their burrows and hold the sleepers in place!

St Ives did get smashed though, at least Gordon did - heavily smashed... heaviest rain we've had in a few weeks for a solid half hour. I hope the retainers are still in situ.

What is interesting though was your assessment of the sand on the surface today. When I went down for the first time last weekend there wasn't any visible sand on the new surface but after rain there is. One must assume that the rain somehow helps leech the sand particles out of the clay. This could be a good thing. If/when we decide to roll the track again we should clean the surface back really well and then roll it. No point pressing the sand back into the surface eh?

B4Bandit

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That's actually a really good idea. Perhaps we could put in some fabricated concrete drain with a grate along the concrete under the drivers' stand.

mharlow

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Waz,

It wasn't pretty. I went up at 9.30 to check the track and the water was about 2 inches under the Silt fencing. And a few of the sleepers had been lifted up and floating on top. It is not going to be easy today to repair the damage.

B4Bandit

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Crap central. Sorry Ben for doubting you

Those damn funnel webs. We had a pact...

ben73

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yeah waz we can only hope the sand content come up and gets washed away. Ill bet a lot got washed away last night.

I agree we need to blow most of it away before re-rolling.

We have a coupe of strategies to combat the sand but will need to test it out to see if it works.

Bugle

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Only a couple of the sleepers ended up floating, the rest stayed in place and not much clay went past them, the wall is finished now..

X5 Addict

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....and it is a GREAT WALL!

Ben the bottom corner should now fill level (in theory!)

As Ben said we have discussed a few options yesterday and today is combat the self sanding after the downpour. The track has really copped a hammering, not just the ordinary sprinkle. A diversion across the top of the track is going to decrease the problem heaps. Probably not so much a drain, moreso a barrier to divert the water around the track, definitely the easiest (and probably most effective) option. With the proposed other binding options the sand could actually be in our favour enabling the binding agent to get into the surface and deep.

Next priority, MORE DIRT!

Maverick CR

Definitely a great wall.
We should have a name for the wall.

And.... I reckon the off camber corner around the tree stump should be named "Panic Corner"