Rick contemplates wallride ting.
Rick in for scale of tings.
Rick in 6ft bowl ting.
Another shot of yer man, for scale ting. Note new patch inbetween ting. (see yesterdays photos)
lots of ting
Scraping ting.
Brush, spray and scrape tings
Shiny ting
Overall Report: Still a week or more until Clachan reckon they will be done. Lots of buffing: and evening ofsurfaces to be done.
Most of the buffing on the flat surfaces is not to make itice-skateable, but to get the caked-on layer of muck off of thestructural concrete. Most of this stuff scrapes off with merely a bitof elbow-grease. The machine will just do larger patches of flat.Though not as well as doing it by hand, admittedly. Once all the crudis taken off the park, it will also dry a lot quicker when rained on.The proper surface is quite smoothand won’t hold the moisture like the gunk caked onto it. Not shinysmooth though… just nicely smooth.
The other buffing is continuing to take out proper-lumps, dangerous wheel-stopping bits, ridges at joins, etc.
The wallride is still v sketchy in finish. Lots of lumps and wibblysections. Not great at all. It may have to be addressed far moreseriously next week. Perhaps with more cut-n-patches. There are severallumps that would not be at all fun to hit when carving. Unless youreally dig pain.
First 5 patches seem ok. Edges still to be machine smoothed next week.
Landscaping work: noise-barrrier hills still to be made .
Pedestrian barriers and signage must be in place before legal admittance of any of us to skate.
Don’t bother going in yet, please. No matter how tempting.
All the dust and grit make it sketchy anyway, and there are no covers on drains.
There are also many legal issues etc. etc.
Iwill of course be pushing for entry as soon as possible, but that isstill easily a week or two away at minimum… Hang tough y’all.Sooner than you think! More OFFICIAL NEWS next week. Meetings ahoy.
Keep cool, we are almost there.
SATURDAY 21st: Wallride buffed a lot more,looking much better. Still some dangerous lumps to be removed.Generally the Park is very smooth and lovely, under all the grunge anddirt.
Not long to go.
I will report back a more definite timeline sometime in the next few days. I promise.
Come and celebrate the birth of this 1000 square meter baby! (If you are old enough)
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Tuesday 24th: Update tomorrow methinks.
I have meeting on Monday the 30th, to discussfinishing-up-for-access issues with park manager (landscaping etc,)health-n-safety guy (access issues before we have a real fence,)legal-chap (wording of signs for mandatory council warnings.) Itwas the earliest we couold arrange it.
Clachan will still be in for another week minimum anyway. Theyare marking out the placement of the pedestrian barriers Wednesday(tomorrow,) and possibly putting them in too. The park is just gettingcleaned up and de-crusted mainly…. the blocks were still needingwork, last I saw. PLus several other minor, wheel-catching bits to snag.
They will also be doing the last earth moving to make the noise-barriers and tidy the place up. The intial landscapingwill put a small mound on the castle (East) side, and a larger mound onthe bowl side (west,) and a wee one on the North (up above that lowbank seen in the last couple of photos.) The trees and shrubs to the North are also all getting kept, instead of the much earlier plan to make it all grass banks.
The Council’s Parks Dept can’t seed the soil with grass until atleast mid March, so it’ll be a bit muddy for a while. The issues ofpeople standing at the edge of the park will have to be temporarilyresolved (plywood? geotextile fabric?) so we don’t make the place apig-sty with mud and stones etc.
The permanent fencingis still several months away. The fencing matters, (apart fromdogs, small kids, the blind, drunks, random punters and the whole legalthing) because for the moment we will have a nasty’chestnut-pale’ (the medieval-looking sharp sticks-n-wire stuff) job atthe bottom of the “rather nasty” southern slope. The slope is like…several meters high and VERY steep.Could be a very muddy / bloody exit from the park if taken at speed in extremis. There was no money for banks to hold one into a speed line.
When a real fence goes in, it will MOSTLY away from theedges of the concrete, but essentially touching at the two southernpoints, mostly due to space issues at that edge. However, if anything,it’ll be good for holding people back from flying into space like theCoyote in the Road Runner cartoons. Still dunno what to do temporarily though…
more soon.
d