Spenborough Work Party
 

Although the track has come through the winter much better than normal, it will be necessary to organise a work party to bring things up to top standard.
Please indicate in the poll above if and how you would be best able to attend and assist.

I can try to be there, pretty flexible but evenings 7th-11th not great as I have a busy week.

What does it usually involve?

Good stuff john. I can do a week on saturday. Do we have any astro? MMaybe we can fill in the ruts n cover them with astro? Doubt that dirt will stay in them without some weeks to settle.

Strimming needed to get rid of all the weeds/grass - especially around the markings.

Once we can see the markings will need to get the paint brushes out and paint the red and white edgings.

Container could do with a coat of paint.

Cannot do painting on a Sunday and then race afterwards as it will obviously need time to dry.

Mike Parker has supplied us with reasonably priced paint before so hopefully he can get us some red, white and green paint from work (if he still works there)!

Chris, Track work is varied from a bit of painting, to strimming around the extremities of the track, to filling in the potholes (#1 task in my opinion) so jobs for people of all abilities :)

Danny, no idea what's happening with astro, I heard we had some reserved but I don't know if that is either A true or B if it can be delivered in time. I guess only Steve would know that??

I've got a decent petrol strimmer, so don't mind doing that. week night, late aft/early eve is preferential to me, but i could go do it anyway if i cant make the weekend/saturday.

might be best to strim and start filling potholes mid week, then let them settle for a weekend work party

There should be 2 petrol strimmers in the container Neil ;)

[QUOTE=Oscar;848717] filling in the potholes (#1 task in my opinion):)/QUOTE]

This :thumbsup:

Ill spend some time putting the track right (better than right infact!) If we have any materials needed, ie dirt/filler, some offcuts of astro, tools. I could even get down tuesday.

I agree that holes in the track are number one priority.
I haven't voted on a date as I will be moving house in the next two weeks.
If I can help on a date that someone is at the track I will.

Is it worthwhile going round the edges of the hard features with some weedol..?

Anyway, I'm up for a bit of container painting if we have rollers n trays? I don't fancy the task wiv a brush n paint pot n that's a fact!!

I'll muck in best I can no worries... Btw, do you mix a bit of sand n cement with the pot hole filler n water it in? If that's a silly Q, apologies offered! A gardener I ain't!!

I can get down there a few evenings this week. Do some strimming n stuff.

It would be great if we could get our hands on some astro. Especially for the top section of the track, before the straight. That part is shocking! :cry:

the one i used last year was useless. the engine ran, but the rotating strimmer head was broken.
I'll bring my own, i know it will work. :-)

When do you fancy going down Neal. I have a decent strimmer too. We could get that done one evening this week.

Is there any work party this weekend 5th or 6 th April..?

Sorry James, just seen this. Very busy week... It will have to be next week sometime. Not next Thursday as I've some evening work on for a client.

A couple of us plan to make a trip down tomorrow and do what works we can.
The idea is we will be there from maybe mid afternoon, but if anyone else can come down to lend a hand for an hour or so (even if later on), that would be magic. :thumbsup:

I'll nip down to lend an hand but will have to set off home at 3.30.
Any idea what time someone will be there?

Back home now for good , I will call on way home from work and see if any one still there and help out :thumbsup:

I might be able to stay longer if the missus is back at 3.30...

depends if I get my car back in time, or if I grab a lift off Neal. I'll post on here when setting off down there.

John - have you got a set of keys?

Yes I have keys, so will be able to open up the container and access what ever we may need. :)

We will be there in 5 mins if anyone can join us

I'll be there after 4pm John, with my strimmer.

Thanks to all who came and helped today... you know who you are.

Jobs done tonight:
Filled some track holes.
Mowed and strimmed track and surrounding area.
Put weed killer down.
Re-wired genny leads and tidied some electrical stuff in container.


With discussions with John Price, I've put together a list of jobs that need attacking over the coming weeks. These will make for a much better summer season at Spenborough, so please if you can come along and help at a work party, or do something before/after/during a sunday club meeting, then please step forward by putting your name down below.


The list.

1. Remove old wood floor from rostrum. Replace wood floor with new boards. Six 8x4x19mm ply required.

2. Paint container/rostrum.

3. Replace loop with new one. (John Price has this)

4. Obtain/buy astro piece for far end of track 3x20m approx. lay astro from brick curve to far upper corner. We'll need a few bodies for this...

5. Remove cricket mat patches from track, replace with either grass seed or fresh astro.

6. Fill more holes with mud/turf.

thanks,


To add to what Neal said, this List is just our opinion of which things to tackle. It's not exhaustive, so if anyone else believes other things require attention, please make it known. This way each club member can then work out in which way they could best help out. If everyone contributes just a little, it soon adds up to a whole lot ;) John

I could be wrong, but I thought Dianne had a source for astro..?

There is a place very close to the track that supplies/uses it. John Price is going to speak to them to see what they have.

The used astro I found in Leeds is now on RHR.

Sorry I couldn't get down last night - didn't get home from work til late and then had another meeting!!

Well done and thank you to those who did - hopefully my efforts with the lawnmower on Sunday morning made it a bit easier...

After speaking with Steve, the conclusion was that the drawback of used astro is the transport cost, (plus huge amount of manpower needed to move it about) It might actually be easier just to source some new locally.

This will be cost dependant of course, but once my car is fixed I'll look into some quotes which we can evaluate.

Put me down for helping

I thought there was some that James had put aside for us at RHR and the only reason we had not done anything yet was because we did not want to use it at Spenborough if we were going to have to move.

I also thought that Steve had some put aside at Sarah's nursery?

Apparently the stuff at the nursery is still laid down and would need lifting. Realistically you would need around 15 people to travel over there to lift and manhandle it onto a vehicle. Transport back would be via a hired HGV as it would be too heavy for a regular trailer or van. There would then need to be a similar number of folk back at Spenborough to unload.
I'm not sure what is left at James's place, (I'll find out this weekend when down there) but similarly we would be looking at £500 ish for a HGV to deliver to Spenborough. James could load up at RHR , but we would want a JCB or similar to unload at our end.
The conversation Steve and I had was that we do need to think about what is realistic. Even a single piece of used Astro to do the section from the corner over the small jump and up to the start of the straight, would likely weigh in excess of a couple of tonnes. New astro before it has sand added, is comparatively very light and easily manageable with fewer hands. New stuff would also avoid the patchwork quilt effect which is very easy to end up with when laying old pieces from elsewhere.

I have been tinkering again today and got a spare Amp from the Whitcliffe container up and working. Prior to Sunday I'll go set it up in the container so we can have a dedicated separate output onto the rostrum. This will allow us to independently run appropriate PA volume levels to both drivers and into the pits. I'm sure our neighbours will benefit as much as we will ;)
I will post on here when I'm going down, so if anyone else is free at the same time we could maybe meet up and tackle another one or two of the endless list of jobs :)

Astro:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@53.70...aQ!2e0!6m1!1e1

Good spotting Neal....there must be some going spare there..!!

They sell it. its just round the corner from the track.
John was going to have a word when he has his car back.

The rostrum is now getting in quite a bad way we have 2 more foot sized holes and a lot of the boards have now started to come away from the container , I don't know if it's the weather that is lifting them or vandalism either way it won't be long before it's not safe to use

I am in the process of getting my garden tidied up and we have an area of decking approx 5m*20m that looks untidy. We have got it booked infor someone to take up the decking and replace with new. Therefore I will have a significant quantity of decking boards that could be laid over the existing structure. There are only 3 boards that I am aware of that have any signs of deteriation so the vast majority have plenty of life left. I have no means of transporting them, but if there is no immediate urgency (i.e. the job is booked for approx mid June assuming weather doesn't get in the way) and someone has a van that could be used to transfer from Mirfield to Spen, then you are welcome to have them when they come up?

I think mid June will be too late , and I'm sure that decking wouldn't be suitable to fix to the top of the container either :)

No worries:)