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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 16, 2023 11:27:55 GMT -5
Phreek, you missed your true calling!  You surely can't mean a calling as ruler over imperium (a geographic space yet to be defined, but certainly exponentially larger than Worcester County). BTW, 50-50 chance this guy is in the family tree. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RichomeresBTW(2), flash flood warning issued for Worcester. |
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Post by sader1970 on Jul 16, 2023 11:39:48 GMT -5
You're right! I surely didn't mean that!  |
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Post by timholycross on Jul 16, 2023 17:44:06 GMT -5
What's the weather situation in The Woo at this point? Cape Cod again not seriously affected.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 16, 2023 17:45:02 GMT -5
You're right! I surely didn't mean that! ...and don't call me Shirley! (RIP Leslie Nielsen) |
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 16, 2023 19:47:47 GMT -5
What's the weather situation in The Woo at this point? Cape Cod again not seriously affected. Heaviest of the rain has slid a bit east. Flood watch until 2AM; will pr obably be discontinued soon. |
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 17, 2023 7:55:33 GMT -5
Busy installing the turf this morning. The turf is a fairly thin layer colored green, which they get the kinks by rippling it like a sheet on a bed. They are now on about the 50 yard yard line aligning the strips so there are presumably seamless. Working very fast. Scroll back on the timeline. they started about 7 AM, now almost 9 AM www.youtube.com/live/tFdXwryvrY0?feature=share |
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 17, 2023 10:48:30 GMT -5
 This is the field at 11:45 AM today. No sign of the black pellets (crumb rubber) sometimes used as infill. |
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Post by rgs318 on Jul 17, 2023 10:57:48 GMT -5
Looking good.
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 17, 2023 11:00:28 GMT -5
This is the field at 11:45 AM today. No sign of the black pellets (crumb rubber) sometimes used as infill. I believe that is put in after the field is pieced together by a machine. |
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Post by timholycross on Jul 17, 2023 13:07:09 GMT -5
...and some of them use different infill materials now. Was on one today that seemed to be cork or something similar to that. Helps keep the temperature of the field down a tad.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 17, 2023 13:26:28 GMT -5
Back in 2009, I watched the installation of the rubber pellets as well as the alternating sand mixture for Fr. K field. There was a small tractor that went back and forth putting down the mixture on the installed carpet. When the IPF field was installed in 2017, a different type infill mixture was used with green biodegradable pellets.
At a local high school that installed an outdoor turf field recently, rubber pellets were not installed. It has a base similar to the new HC field hockey surface, without pellets, but soft and spongy while walking.
Maybe the renovation of Fr. K field will be without the rubber or biodegradable pellets seen in past installations of artificial turf.
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Post by sader1970 on Jul 17, 2023 14:43:14 GMT -5
As I posted on another thread:
P.S. He said that while the Jesuits have made their move, the new place is "a mess!" [Having moved about 10 times since graduation, that's a given]
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 17, 2023 15:13:39 GMT -5
Back in 2009, I watched the installation of the rubber pellets as well as the alternating sand mixture for Fr. K field. There was a small tractor that went back and forth putting down the mixture on the installed carpet. When the IPF field was installed in 2017, a different type infill mixture was used with green biodegradable pellets. At a local high school that installed an outdoor turf field recently, rubber pellets were not installed. It has a base similar to the new HC field hockey surface, without pellets, but soft and spongy while walking. Maybe the renovation of Fr. K field will be without the rubber or biodegradable pellets seen in past installations of artificial turf. The field hockey field at HC is a different type of surface (close to the old Astroturf type surface) than is used for normal field sports (Fieldturf type). Unless that local high school ONLY uses that field for field hockey, they did NOT install that. |
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 17, 2023 15:15:52 GMT -5
...and some of them use different infill materials now. Was on one today that seemed to be cork or something similar to that. Helps keep the temperature of the field down a tad. I think the different infill material is due to the cancer studies with the ground up tires out there. Not saying they are true or not but there is some people that believe in that stuff. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7181390/ |
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 17, 2023 16:43:59 GMT -5
Back in 2009, I watched the installation of the rubber pellets as well as the alternating sand mixture for Fr. K field. There was a small tractor that went back and forth putting down the mixture on the installed carpet. When the IPF field was installed in 2017, a different type infill mixture was used with green biodegradable pellets. At a local high school that installed an outdoor turf field recently, rubber pellets were not installed. It has a base similar to the new HC field hockey surface, without pellets, but soft and spongy while walking. Maybe the renovation of Fr. K field will be without the rubber or biodegradable pellets seen in past installations of artificial turf. The field hockey field at HC is a different type of surface (close to the old Astroturf type surface) than is used for normal field sports (Fieldturf type). Unless that local high school ONLY uses that field for field hockey, they did NOT install that. I walked the new field hockey surface last fall and again recently in the spring, it is not like the old Astroturf regarding playability and sponginess. A far cry as it is a relatively soft surface and a joy to jog on. The surface at the local high school while not the same as the surface for HC field hockey, also is not the Field Turf from 15 years ago. It does not contain pellets of any sort. I have examined it extensively. The high school field is used for football as well as soccer. The school does not have a field hockey team, so that was not a consideration regarding installation. The first time I saw a new field turf surface with the heavy rubber pellets was at a Holy Cross soccer game at the University of San Francisco’s, Negoesco Stadium in 2003. Constantly throughout the game there was a heavy spray of pellets in the air on kicks as well as tackles. The previous surface at Fr. K field was closer in composition to Negoesco Stadium. The reason for the elimination of the pellet based field is due to nasal ingestion. A artificial turf system was developed in the early 2000s based on "crumb rubber." The black crumbs are small pieces of styrene-butadiene rubber made from grinding up old vehicle tires. The tire crumbs are poured in between the artificial grass blades, giving the artificial fields more cushion and support. The surface in the IPF is different from the previous Fr. K field. |
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 17, 2023 18:32:46 GMT -5
The field hockey field at HC is a different type of surface (close to the old Astroturf type surface) than is used for normal field sports (Fieldturf type). Unless that local high school ONLY uses that field for field hockey, they did NOT install that. I walked the new field hockey surface last fall and again recently in the spring, it is not like the old Astroturf regarding playability and sponginess. A far cry as it is a relatively soft surface and a joy to jog on. The surface at the local high school while not the same as the surface for HC field hockey, also is not the Field Turf from 15 years ago. It does not contain pellets of any sort. I have examined it extensively. The high school field is used for football as well as soccer. The school does not have a field hockey team, so that was not a consideration regarding installation. The first time I saw a new field turf surface with the heavy rubber pellets was at a Holy Cross soccer game at the University of San Francisco’s, Negoesco Stadium in 2003. Constantly throughout the game there was a heavy spray of pellets in the air on kicks as well as tackles. The previous surface at Fr. K field was closer in composition to Negoesco Stadium. The reason for the elimination of the pellet based field is due to nasal ingestion. A artificial turf system was developed in the early 2000s based on "crumb rubber." The black crumbs are small pieces of styrene-butadiene rubber made from grinding up old vehicle tires. The tire crumbs are poured in between the artificial grass blades, giving the artificial fields more cushion and support. The surface in the IPF is different from the previous Fr. K field. BTW, "Fieldturf" and "Astroturf" are company names so this gets a little confusing. I consider anything with an in-fill Fieldturf and anything like a Field Hockey field Astroturf like. Negoesco Stadium got new turf in 2016 with a pumice like material for soccer. The following is on the facility site. The Holy Cross field hockey field product is literally called AstroTurf12 system. It is literally watered before the game and at halftime at the college and international level to make it less abrasive and give true rolls/bounces. (Someone always forgets that the field is watered at least once per season ;-)) |
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 17, 2023 21:04:38 GMT -5
I would speculate that the new surface for the Smith Soccer Stadium will be similar to the new infill at Negoesco Stadium. I did not like the Pitch in the game I witness in September of 2003, in the Diadora Classic.
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Post by timholycross on Jul 18, 2023 7:49:53 GMT -5
Astroturf (the company, owned by Sport Group) has many products, most of them are of what we'll call the "Field Turf" variety.
The many fields I've been on that have been installed in the last 10 years have either black infill (rubber, no doubt) or tan infill (cork? sand? both?).
Can't say that I've been on one with no infill that wasn't installed in the 90s or earlier than that.
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 18, 2023 8:16:37 GMT -5
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 21, 2023 14:49:20 GMT -5
The field is being striped for lacrosse. The stripes appear to be stitched in to the turf. << This is consistent with the design rendering. The sidelines appear to be royal purple.
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Post by Crucis#1 on Jul 21, 2023 16:30:03 GMT -5
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Post by bfoley82 on Jul 21, 2023 22:30:39 GMT -5
The field is being striped for lacrosse. The stripes appear to be stitched in to the turf. << This is consistent with the design rendering. The sidelines appear to be royal purple. The men's and women's lacrosse dimensions are slightly different. Women's has a bigger field. |
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Post by Pakachoag Phreek on Jul 22, 2023 5:20:46 GMT -5
The field is being striped for lacrosse. The stripes appear to be stitched in to the turf. << This is consistent with the design rendering. The sidelines appear to be royal purple. The men's and women's lacrosse dimensions are slightly different. Women's has a bigger field. ^^^ Source? turftank.com/us/academy/lacrosse-field-dimensions/#:~:text=A%20lacrosse%20field%20is%2060,at%20college%20and%20professional%20levels. A women's field lacrosse field may be longer, up to 120 yards, and wider up to 70 yards, but the uniform dimensions for both genders is 110 x 60. It will be interesting to see if they stripe a shorter field width for football practice. |
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Post by timholycross on Jul 22, 2023 7:57:15 GMT -5
The field is being striped for lacrosse. The stripes appear to be stitched in to the turf. << This is consistent with the design rendering. The sidelines appear to be royal purple. Most of the fields seem to get lined that way, which I can't say I'm in favor of as rules can change vis-a-vis field dimensions and, more importantly, the suckers fade over time and there doesn't seem to be a lot of painting over that goes on. Apologies if it was mentioned here at one point, but I know there's a machine that uses GPS to line the fields, in the same manner as a Roomba vacuums. |
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Post by longsuffering on Jul 22, 2023 15:21:21 GMT -5
The field is being striped for lacrosse. The stripes appear to be stitched in to the turf. << This is consistent with the design rendering. The sidelines appear to be royal purple. Most of the fields seem to get lined that way, which I can't say I'm in favor of as rules can change vis-a-vis field dimensions and, more importantly, the suckers fade over time and there doesn't seem to be a lot of painting over that goes on. Apologies if it was mentioned here at one point, but I know there's a machine that uses GPS to line the fields, in the same manner as a Roomba vacuums. GPS? I thought Roomba used the same sixth sense as the deaf, dumb and blind boy in the rock opera "Tommy". |
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