Message Board - Cricket: 1st idiot question.....re-using loam
26 Sep 2010 by CoachVealie
Take a deep breath before answering this one.......
Is there any reason why you couldn't re-use the loam arisings from end of season scarifying work when undertaking temporary footmark/crease repairs the following season. We spend a lot of money on this loam and it seems to me that once it is sieved and all old grass and thatch removed it would be suitable.
Comments?
26 Sep 2010 by Andy Matthews
I have tried this before and I think I have seen replies where others have as well and I found that it just fell apart it wouldn't bind together properly, use the search feature and you see plenty of threads about foot end repairs.
26 Sep 2010 by jontaylor
Coach,
Even with sieving you will still have a high organic content in the loam which will result in weakness.
Do your arisings really have a high soil content? If so, why were you still scarifying? I stop when the manual weight check says I'm getting to what I think is about 50% soil content - but it could be closer to 25%, I've never checked. Certainly when the piles rot down, the volume drops dramatically. I use this stuff to fill divots etc on the outfield in spring. Use any wet bags of laom for end repairs rather than recycled stuff.
The ciderman rolls
26 Sep 2010 by paul kelsey
Agree with Jon save the old stuff for the wankers that gouge a 2" deep bowling mark out even when youv'e left the bowling markers behind the stumps
26 Sep 2010 by CoachVealie
Jontaylor,
We are following a program given us by the local pitch advisor. 4 years ago we had a serious problem with thatch and we have had to scarify heavily to remove it.
We are just at the end of that cycle and it seemed to me that this year we were bringing up mostly loam and grass. The box was too heavy for one person to lift.
We also have a pretty big pile of the last 3 years arisings that has now rotted down. We have been asked to remove this pile as it is unsightly but I was wondering about bagging it and using it for outfield and crease repairs instead.
27 Sep 2010 by jlawrence Last edited 27 Sep 2010
Last year we hollow cored our main square and I've been using the cores from that for the end repairs this year.
Arisings from the square are used to top dress the bonfire area (after we've burnt a bloody great circle). Hadn't thought about using it on ourfield areas - that sounds a good idea - but I wouldn't use it on my ends.
Of course there's no bounce, bend your back and put some bloody effort in.
1 Oct 2010 by Mark Edward
Hi guys, on a similar note we have done our 1st ever end of season and have loads of 25kg bags left over. So the question is... If we keep the loam bagged and stored dry will it be ok to use for end of season work next year? any feedback appreciated?
1 Oct 2010 by Andy Matthews
Yeh it will be fine Mark just make sure you keep it dry or it will be useless.
1 Oct 2010 by eddyinfreehold
If it's in your machine shed it's always worth getting a dry pallet, line the base with used loam sacks and store the unused sacks on that. Leave an air gap between the stack and any external walls. Any torn or part used bags, put on top. Over the winter you might find water or moisture seeps in from the ground or walls otherwise and travels through the bags one by one. Watch out for mice. They chew everything. Then again you might have a perfectly weathertight machine shed.
1 Oct 2010 by Vic Demain
Left a complete pallet of Gostd out from last September, no covering other than that it was delivered in, used last week and not one wet bag.
1 Oct 2010 by Minormorris64
Put mine on pallets in my shed, used 12 months later no problem.
What goes around, comes around
1 Oct 2010 by Mark Edward
cheers fellas. Very helpful, we are fortunate to have a new watertight brick building on the side of the pavilion. will put on pallet as described.
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