After letting the weeds take over since last year, I finally decided to clean up my backyard track and prep it for some bashing.
I spent about two hours yesterday with a weed eater and about two more hours today with a rake and wheelbarrow in 90+ degree heat and I'm just getting started.
My plans are to buy some weed killer, another 100' roll of black pipe and maybe a load of dirt to build up some small jumps and a tabletop. And I need to buy a BL setup for my B44...or maybe I'll go brushed and do a what's new is old build.
You know what they say, if there's grass on the field- play ball.
Maybe that's not what that saying means.
Looks like fun!
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I would love to have a spot like that to run, then I realized how much work it would be and went back in the house...... well anyways good luck with yours.
I helped build our local track that is now taken over by the evil 1/8 scale fume makers, and rule #1 always build up dont dig down.
Sleeps with a night light on, not because he's scared of the dark but because the dark is scared of him...........stay thirsty my friends
When I stripped the grass back on mine last year I cut it extremely short with my mower and then doused it heavily with weed killer. Raking out all of the the roots was the absolute lot of back braking work though. I have made sure to keep up with the weed killer even when I know I might not be running on it for a while.
"It is not how you finish but how you qualify unless you qualify bad then it is how you finish."
Words of wisdom from the Cox bros at my local track.
when I built a track, I towed a length of chainlink fence behind a lawn tractor, with some weights on it, and just kept going around and around to tear up roots and stones. I used a bunch of old tires/rims as weight, since I had a bunch.
The last time I was at the home hardware outlet nearby, checking out landscaping supplies in the gardening/yard products section, I saw these large rolls of mesh that act as weed barriers for planters or around trees and such. The better one ("Platinum", though that has little to do with the precious metal, was the best) supposedly prevents weeds from re-growing for 10 years or something. Anyway, once you've killed the grass & weeds and removed the roots, you might look into something like that, then spread a bunch of dirt on top of it.
Coelacanth wrote:The last time I was at the home hardware outlet nearby, checking out landscaping supplies in the gardening/yard products section, I saw these large rolls of mesh that act as weed barriers for planters or around trees and such. The better one ("Platinum", though that has little to do with the precious metal, was the best) supposedly prevents weeds from re-growing for 10 years or something. Anyway, once you've killed the grass & weeds and removed the roots, you might look into something like that, then spread a bunch of dirt on top of it.
The weed seeds will just blow in within a year and grow on top of the fabric. That fabric is made to have rock or some sort of non-fertile media on top of it.
teman wrote:Cool layout Dave I think I'd have some dirt dumped. It will have some cost attached of course, but will save some manual labor in the long run
No need to bring dirt in, he's in PA! Dig down about 2 inches!
CamplinP wrote:The weed seeds will just blow in within a year and grow on top of the fabric. That fabric is made to have rock or some sort of non-fertile media on top of it.
The same thing will happen with rock too, it will slow the weeds down from underneath, but you'll still get them from the top.
klavy69 wrote:... when I give you s&#t its a loan...I want it back!
If you are going get some dirt check out landscape centers. cubic yard s around $40 here at the landscape suppliers or $20 from the city reuse facility... Bring a truck
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this one :)
(told you... stupid expensive... but then again it was in the rb6 box... stupid expensive rb6 btw :lol: )
Thanks Paul. Do you also know the part# for their thrust bearing grease?