Photo's in The Amex from today

[DT Withdean]

Why have some of the ESL seats at the front (i.e. a long way from the ESU works), been temporarily removed?

 

[terryberry1]

 

[Norman Potting]

I was there watching them do it only 2 hours ago and can confirm that they were removing the top layer (which to me means the grass plus little bit more - I don't know much about pitch management!)

Would this be the opposite to "watching grass grow"?

 

[BBassic]

I cannot wait until August.

 

[leigull]

From BHASnappy:

"Pitch maintenance summer programme commences as top layer is removed ahead of reseeding"

 

[Acker79]

Paul Hazlewood ‏[MENTION=4645]bha[/MENTION]Snappy
#EXTRASEATS Pitch maintenance summer programme commences as top layer is removed ahead of reseeding #BHAFC http://pic.twitter.com/jEfQk7iT

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

Why have some of the ESL seats at the front (i.e. a long way from the ESU works), been temporarily removed?

Don't think it'll be for the crane, more to do with the staging arrangements for next week. PA speakers possibly.

 

[Acker79]

Why have some of the ESL seats at the front (i.e. a long way from the ESU works), been temporarily removed?

Because...

So there is room for the crane to sit while it lifts things to the east stand upper.

 

[Acker79]

Don't think it'll be for the crane, more to do with the staging arrangements for next week. PA speakers possibly.

Paul Hazlewood ‏[MENTION=4645]bha[/MENTION]Snappy
#EXTRASEATS Bonus tweet! Seats have been removed to allow the crane to use its stabilisers #BHAFC http://pic.twitter.com/qwrlAH6Z

 

[Willy Dangle]

Where has the big south screen gone? Where is it ending up?

Some Croydon nob has looted it for his front room.

 

[Superphil]

on the OS now

[MENTION=4645]bha[/MENTION] Snappy's picture shows the top layer of the pitch being removed. This is part of the summer pitch maintenance programme...

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

If they'd hired a larger capacity crane they wouldn't have had to do all that because the crane could have been parked further from the stand. Mind you there aren't that many big capacity cranes, and they come at a premium hire rate, also the big ones are probably busy elsewhere.

 

[somerset]

They were taking the top layer off the pitch, not sure what they're planning though.

They are stripping it, covering it for the FBS gigs, then reseeding it afterwards.

 

[somerset]

If they'd hired a larger capacity crane they wouldn't have had to do all that because the crane could have been parked further from the stand. Mind you there aren't that many big capacity cranes, and they come at a premium hire rate, also the big ones are probably busy elsewhere.

No, its to do with the weight vs angle issue. They dont have height to play with, so that means you need to get in tight to reduce the risk of toppling, especially when the prefabricated concrete terracing gets lifted in after the steelwork is complete.

 

[c0lz]

Thanks for the photos/clips guys

 

[MACROBLUE]

Thought you guys might like to see these!

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If Rusty can provide pics like this then why can't the club? They know the interest from last time, surely its not beyond them to do similar.

 

[The Grockle]

If Rusty can provide pics like this then why can't the club? They know the interest from last time, surely its not beyond them to do similar.

Understand what you're saying but you must appreciate it's a very busy period for the club. It's better to have slightly poor limited shots than none at all.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

If Rusty can provide pics like this then why can't the club? They know the interest from last time, surely its not beyond them to do similar.

The official club photograher provides photos like this every day, on his twitter feed.

 

[34064 Fighter Command]

No, its to do with the weight vs angle issue. They dont have height to play with, so that means you need to get in tight to reduce the risk of toppling, especially when the prefabricated concrete terracing gets lifted in after the steelwork is complete.

True but you just increase the balance counterweight or the distance from the fulcrum of your lighter counterweight giving you balance to avoid toppling, a biggish capacity crane would be able to lift around 200 or 300 tonnes and I'm sure a prefabricated section won't weigh anywhere near that, 40 - 50 tonnes at tops ( any more and it couldn't be easily transported by road ).

One of these babies should manage ( This Terex DEMAG has 350 tonne capacity and was used on one of my projects in conjunction with it's smaller 200 tonne baby brother ). There's even a 1000 tonne crane but that probably is too big to get through the door. What they're using at the moment is just a tiddler by comparison.

 

[Brok]

Thanks for the photos/clips guys

Twice.