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Subject: A tentertive ask for help.
Posted: 09 March 2012 at 2:05am

Hi Leon, once you get the proper tools, its not hard to prepare a deck.  One of the most important things of preparing a deck is when setting it.  Luckily at times, dirt that's been sunk on from constant trampling (like players runnings, vehicles riding on it) may just need some watering, then when nearly dried out, some rolling with a heavy roller and it will bounce properly.

If you want to do it from scratch, outline the pitch area, dig it up, and get soil that is more clayish in nature.  Rake in that dug up dirt into the layed out pitch, rakes it fine and level, and then wet it heavily.  Leave it to soak until evening (best to wet it early morning), and then put on a roller on it when nearly dried out.  Apply dead grass on the wet relaid pitch in the morning, because when you are going to roll it in the evening, if the roller makes direct contact with the dirt, it will remove it and leave some patches.  Remember this is the setting stage, so dirt should not be fully dried or a little damp when rolling in the evening. 

That is the setting stage.  Once that is then, it should be hard the next day, then you water it and roll like normal to keep it hard and fresh.  on playing days, just sprinkle it early in the morning and then roll, and play an hour or two later.

Hope I made sense. LOL


Edited by spin wizard - 09 March 2012 at 2:09am]]> Fri, 09 Mar 2012 02:05:04 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5906&PID=220441#220441 Groundcare : A tentertive ask for help. http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5906&PID=220429#220429 Author: LeonN
Subject: A tentertive ask for help.
Posted: 07 March 2012 at 7:50am

Thanks for the welcome. :-)]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 07:50:58 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5906&PID=220429#220429 Groundcare : A tentertive ask for help. http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5906&PID=220423#220423 Author: Sledger
Subject: A tentertive ask for help.
Posted: 07 March 2012 at 4:40am

Hi Leon , don't worry about your spelling , your post is very easy to understand.  There are people eminently more qualified than me to help you in preparing a better wicket   -  good luck with it and welcome to the forum.

Edited by Sledger - 07 March 2012 at 4:41am]]> Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:40:34 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5906&PID=220423#220423 Groundcare : A tentertive ask for help. http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5906&PID=220420#220420 Author: LeonN
Subject: A tentertive ask for help.
Posted: 06 March 2012 at 6:57pm

Hi all

I'm Leon, live on the wirral and am a classic car engineer who loves the game of cricket and late last summer moved into a house with large ish garden.
We started playing garden cricket in the summer and threw out the winter. Just for fun a few of us. Like most we tossed around a tennisball with some stumps I turned down on the lathe and a very old bat. Needles to say the bat smashed pritty quick bit as it was sutch fun we bought on from the sports shop. We had a game on December the 26th witch everyone enjoyed so Mitch we have all booked it in for next year. After this a few of us started to take it a tinny tinny bit moor sereousley and got together any weekend it wasnot raining and plade a few overs. Over time the stumps got further and further apart and we got a hard ball and a second hand pad. People started to bowl moor acuretley instantly and the two gut big tyre marks in the garden became moor notisable.
Sorry for the ramble but i hope it gives you an ideas as to the fun fun level I'm at witch is allso the reason I ask tentatively. We wuld like to prapare something like a wicket to play on. We have a rowller and a mower and rakes. We allso have stumps and a peace of hardwood hammered into the floor as a crease. All very good but batween them we have lawn and mossy lawn at that. It is leval with no humps but allso has two tyre divets coming threw mid wicket sweeping across the batsmanship end and off threw the covers.
If someone could advice me as to how I can fill theys and how I can rowller to get it a bit harder and how high to cut my grass that will be gratefully reseved. Or indeed point me to a web sight that can help.
I have done some reasirch but obviously it is all a bit Mutch. I'm not paraparing a county wicket, noir do I won't to stay off it for weeks on end rolling 8 hours a day, there are cars to keep alive. . Id happily spend a week or two wetting and Rowling and cutting the grass shorter and shorter but...... I hope you understand my confusion of iv not just confused you and will really be gratefull for any advice.

Thanks

Leon

Let me allso apologise for my awfull spelling. I dyslexic and just canot do it. I hope not to offend with my spelling witch has happened on forums before]]> Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:57:46 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5906&PID=220420#220420 Groundcare : Is a county groundsmans' lot a happy one? http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5275&PID=216146#216146 Author: Groundie
Subject: Is a county groundsmans' lot a happy one?
Posted: 14 July 2011 at 7:09am

There has been a lot of horror stories lately surrounding groundsmen coming under enormous pressure from captains/coaches/ceo's to produce certain surfaces and also cases where the groundsman has been overruled, pitches too green, pitches too used. Pitch marks are dropping yet clubs feel justified because they are getting results.
]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:09:16 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5275&PID=216146#216146 Groundcare : Outfield care http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5537&PID=216145#216145 Author: Groundie
Subject: Outfield care
Posted: 14 July 2011 at 7:04am

Think you posted a similar message on Pitchcare a few months ago. Answer is all about money available, with it you can do anything, without it nothing.
Do not use a heavy roller as that will only do damage. Chain harrowing is good as is vertidraining, seeding, fertilising and top dressing but this will cost around £7,000 and then you need water.
We chain harrow, cut and weedkill, would like to do more but no finance, yet we have no winter sport.]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 07:04:14 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5537&PID=216145#216145 Groundcare : Groundcare Sprayers http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5539&PID=216052#216052 Author: fozza455
Subject: Groundcare Sprayers
Posted: 07 July 2011 at 10:23am

Hi guys just thought id give you all heads up on a nice bit of kit which could be used on cricket grounds, my local rugby club has just bought one. Its a sprayer which is towed behind a compact tractor or such like, and they come in a variety of widths and apparently price wise they are very reasonable, the only contact details i have for them at the moment is an email address which is mpa.sprayers@btinternet.com
I will be in touch with them so once i get more info i will post it on here if anyones interested.]]> Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:23:00 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5539&PID=216052#216052 Groundcare : Outfield care http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5537&PID=216015#216015 Author: therodders
Subject: Outfield care
Posted: 05 July 2011 at 4:32pm

I play club cricket on a ground which shares its outfield with a football club. It used to be the case that the football pitch would only encroach one side of the outfield but as the years went by it is now the case that all sides of the outfield have football played on it during the off season. With so much sport being played and the field not getting any rest it's needless to say it's in a pretty sorry state, there are areas where there isn't much grass growth and other areas where there are lots of weeds growing, the worst part is the huge cracks in the ground (some large enough to fit a cricket ball!) and the soil being incredibly bumpy.

Does anybody have any advice on what can be done during the short window in April (approximately 4 weeks) to improve the state of the outfield? 

I have been told by a livery owner to chain harrow and then roll the outfield, will this be beneficially to my cause? (please note we only own a heavy roller) 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks


]]> Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:32:57 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5537&PID=216015#216015 Groundcare : Top tips for club groundsman http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5276&PID=213171#213171 Author: Sledger
Subject: Top tips for club groundsman
Posted: 28 February 2011 at 5:17am

Originally posted by Groundie

Max Power...What part of the UK are you in, perhaps you could get a local groundsman or ECBPA in.


 We sometimes wonder what planet Max's on Groundie !!Wink
]]> Mon, 28 Feb 2011 05:17:46 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5276&PID=213171#213171 Groundcare : Top tips for club groundsman http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5276&PID=213165#213165 Author: Groundie
Subject: Top tips for club groundsman
Posted: 27 February 2011 at 4:26pm

Max Power, there could be any number of reasons why the pitch is slow and low. Are the bowlers any good? Is there any grass plant on the surface? Have you covers? Is the pitch hard?
Have you taken any core samples to see what is going on under the surface? Are there any breaks in the soil profile? Have you any layering? Is consolidation to depth? Have you any roots. Could there be a pan?
What part of the UK are you in, perhaps you could get a local groundsman or ECBPA in.
Good luck.]]> Sun, 27 Feb 2011 16:26:24 +0000 http://www.cricketworld.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5276&PID=213165#213165