i think this would work out good how ever with our over 60 crowd it would a good thing to think a bought gitting some help from the boy scouts as we have a hard time getting more then 10 out at the field lol
It depends if they have had their Geritol or not that morning! Or one of us wins the lottery and donates $30,000.00 to the club, tax deductible of course and then we pave the sucker the right way.
I decided to find out a bit more about the geotextile durability relating to vehicles especially, and contacted the folks in Los Alamos, so I contacted them to find out if their field was well fenced to prevent vehicle use. Their reply is below:
our field is partially fenced off, but vehicles can still get to it. ATVs and motorcycles are on the field several times a month. so far they have not done any damage. i think the fabric is too slick for them to really do much harm, and we staked it down really well. we wish we could fence it off better, but the landlord wont really facilitate that. overall the stuff has held up fine.
i even drive on it with my pickup truck when i am moving the drag over the field, and it seems to be fine with it.
it is surprisingly durable.
good luck, and you are welcome to come see us sometime.
I asked the Las Aalamos folks a few more question about the geotextile surface. One of the reasons I contacted them again was because our Mancos shale has lots of frost heave, and it also has tremendous shrink/swell characteristics which help to push some things out of the soil. My concern there is whether the staples would hold. They apparently do not have heavy duty clay soil to deal with but do have the frost heave issue. Here is the response.
"yes, our soil does get a lot of frost heave. the staples tended to come up a bit, especially while the fabric was still shrinking. a quick work party and 1/2 an our or so and you can knock them back in.
the fabric is porous, so i suppose that if there is a low spot that does not drain, the water will tend to stay longer, but should eventually evaporate.
the stuff will not be maintenance free. you will have to spend a little time each year rolling the ground, weeding, re-setting stakes, and repairing the rips. probably plan on one work session a year, maybe two if the weeds get bad. overall, at least it is something a club can do, unlike paving which takes a professional to maintain.
