Message Board - Natural Turf: turf after events
3 Feb 2008 by HG
Hi just throwing a question out to you all far more qualified than myself which is
We have been asked to reistate an area which was covered over by an ice ring 1m off the ground and light was totally excluded from the turf for a total of nine weeks.
To our clients amazement and ours the turf was just the same as when the structure was put up with no discolouration or growth and was just the same colour as the turf outside the ring.
The client has actually harvested this turf and used on site elsewhere
The areas covered by normal suspended structures have been marked so at least we have big roll turf still to lay.
Does anybody have answers to the grass being in such exellent shape?(Its not being treated in any way prior to the event)
4 Feb 2008 by BC
Not without being there first hand in person too see all aspects. Do you have any pics? I have been roped into overseeing a reinstatement in Moscow where they covered a full size grass football pitch with an ice arena for the world bandy championships. (a larger form of ice hockey). I will be interested to see whats under there but they are only just in process of dismantling so I will maybe post a pic of the grass once uncovered. The ice rink here was constructed with plywood boards directly on grass then 150mm coarse sand. Then the pipng then more sand approx another 150mm. The rink covered the grass since mid december so like yourself approx 9 to 10 weeks total. Maybe the big difference here was that the turf was frozen solid at time of ice construction.
I intend to live forever, so far so good...
4 Feb 2008 by Neil Dixon
Hugh
It will be down to;
The structure being off the ground, so allowing air movement
The fact that light levels are generally low at the moment so the grass plant does not need so much to function, and alos that the grass is not growing.
You will find that if you had done this during the growing season, the grass leaf would have become very long and pale / white in colour, where it is looking for light, the white colouration would have been due to a lack of Chlorophyl in the grass leaf ( due to lack of light)
Glad it all worked out for you, though in the future if you do have to do something like this in the growing season, apply something like Primo Max to the grass before hand, it stops the grass leaf " elongating" in its search for light.
4 Feb 2008 by LittleDave
Well it seems that Hugh's found the answer to any groundsman who's pitches host concerts in the summer....have them in winter instead!!!
I mean, the pitches are't under any strain this time of year anyway are they? And if they look fine after 9 weeks under cover, a week covered up should be fine!
I'm joking...
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