Low Cost Ground Improvements

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  1. Redarmy87

    Redarmy87 Well-Known Member

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    Urban myth or personal experience? ;)
     
    Redarmy87, Aug 18, 2022
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    From what I've read, if you do that a few times, the seat will go brittle and eventually break. More costly in the long run.
     
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    TBH it’s like a lot of things doing it is not a bad idea but it’s better not in isolation.
    If I was doing it I would be pricing for a UV resistant sealer to be applied over the top.
    That stops the breakdown and fading but people don’t to save money.
     
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    How much do you reckon it would cost per seat?
     
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    A UV resistant sealer would not be cheap and neither would the flame thrower. There are 24,000 seats at Oakwell so even if you could do it for £4 a seat it's nigh on £100,000 which the council/Crynes would have to find. Bearing in mind that the only ground improvements in the last 20 years have been a lick of red paint here and there, I would say that's extremely unlikely.
     
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    It's very impressive, but I'm not sure it's very, practical or cost effective and I'd be interested to know how long it lasts.

    But it does look well cool. Thanks for posting it.

    Pity there isn't an equivalent procedure for humans.
     
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    Disappointed no-one has made a dirty comment with this snippet......
     
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    I kept thinking of diarrhoea.
     
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    I would have put money on you saying you'd spread it on your knob or some such!
     
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    I agree highly unlikely, that’s why people go for the cheaper option.
     
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    Without checking price of gas, I would guess in region of £12 a seat.
     
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    No that's jam.
     
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    I literally laughed out loud at this!
     
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    An expensive endeavor then. Around £276,000 for 23,000 ish seats. Unless we left the 6,000 in the North Stand to rot, then we'd be looking at a paltry £204,000.

    If only we had, say, £750,000 knocking about - we could do the seats, the scoreboard, the ESL kiosk (for Super Tyke), the website cookies, install a pot noodle machine, invest in proper training for staff and ensure sufficient staff are supplied, and sort the car park/invest in the fan zone. Add in a new lick of paint and some spare polly filla for the West Stand. And some half-time oranges for the lads. If only..
     
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    Dare we ask what a jam sandwich is in your world?
     
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    A jam sandwich.
     
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    Chocolate hobnob?
     
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    Only when she's drunk.
     
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    £12 per seat! It literally takes 5 seconds.
     
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    Sounds great, apart from the Pot Noodle machine.......:)
     
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