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Title: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: distancetraveller on June 02, 2021, 08:31:38 PM
Has anybody got any pics of the pitch being dug up yet.. it would be nice if we can get regular progress reports with a couple of piccys
Here’s hoping..
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Inter Alty! on June 02, 2021, 08:39:57 PM
Alty twitter showed this video yesterday of the start of the pitch being removed...

https://twitter.com/altrinchamfc/status/1399673714388709376?s=20

So started already...
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Inter Alty! on June 02, 2021, 08:54:34 PM
Here's some more pitch coming up fun & games...

https://twitter.com/Faulkne99553264/status/1400175347023454214?s=20
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: distancetraveller on June 02, 2021, 10:00:22 PM
Cheers for that Inter..
exciting times indeed.
Onwards and upwards..
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Silent but Ledley on June 04, 2021, 07:49:36 AM
Are there any more pics available yet? SBL
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: beaker141 on June 04, 2021, 11:56:52 AM
Are there any more pics available yet? SBL

I saw it this morning and there is nothing much new to see, just more soil been planed off deeper than usual so it still looks like a beach.
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: TheCultOfIanTunnacliffe on June 04, 2021, 06:37:37 PM


Surely we need Alty TV to broadcast a continual live feed of the pitch redevelopment, rather in the style of those BBC Four Goes Slow programmes which comprised a two-hour real-time reindeer sleigh ride with Sami people filmed in Norway or a two-hour bus ride along the Swaledale valley in North Yorkshire?

Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: distancetraveller on June 04, 2021, 08:34:25 PM


Surely we need Alty TV to broadcast a continual live feed of the pitch redevelopment, rather in the style of those BBC Four Goes Slow programmes which comprised a two-hour real-time reindeer sleigh ride with Sami people filmed in Norway or a two-hour bus ride along the Swaledale valley in North Yorkshire?

Sounds like a plan Cult..
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Saughall Robin on June 04, 2021, 08:53:27 PM
Don't think you'll get many takers at £9.99! 😉 😂😂
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: cheshire cat on June 04, 2021, 09:22:45 PM
A webcam is all that is needed
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: One Foot in the Grave on June 04, 2021, 10:24:18 PM


Surely we need Alty TV to broadcast a continual live feed of the pitch redevelopment, rather in the style of those BBC Four Goes Slow programmes which comprised a two-hour real-time reindeer sleigh ride with Sami people filmed in Norway or a two-hour bus ride along the Swaledale valley in North Yorkshire?

I thought our final game of the season was an attempt to emulate that format....
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Inter Alty! on June 08, 2021, 08:44:02 PM
More pitch updates via video...

https://twitter.com/Faulkne99553264/status/1402345937100496902?s=20
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Silent but Ledley on June 09, 2021, 04:54:07 PM
Technology! SBL
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Nom de plume on June 09, 2021, 05:00:01 PM
More pitch updates via video...

https://twitter.com/Faulkne99553264/status/1402345937100496902?s=20
Is that the channel for Kosylo to run into?
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Inter Alty! on June 09, 2021, 05:56:32 PM
More video pitch updates...

https://twitter.com/altrinchamfc/status/1402654526151311362?s=20
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Saughall Robin on June 09, 2021, 05:57:01 PM
More pitch updates via video...

https://twitter.com/Faulkne99553264/status/1402345937100496902?s=20
Is that the channel for Kosylo to run into?

Or the foundations for our brick wall defence!! 😉
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: altering um on June 09, 2021, 11:33:25 PM
 Those videos of 'work in progress' are fantastic. They enhance whatever music you're  listening to, and vice versa.
 And the beauty of light and heavy plant in perfect harmony.

 I have no idea of the science behind high water margin, "that's why it's called Moss Lane", the drains in 'that corner' or the fact that surplus water used to flow direct to the kegs in the cellar of Chequers.
So I take my hat of to those who do. And those who sanctioned sorting it out.

 In the 2nd video the cravasses (presumably drainage related) are  semi refilled by the very plant that created them. Beautiful.
 
 What's being buried within? If Bitcoin exists, that's what it looks like.
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Alty TV on June 09, 2021, 11:57:49 PM
We're currently filming a time-lapse of the whole ground works supported with some close-ups. Hope to release the first part over the weekend.
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: distancetraveller on June 10, 2021, 01:04:59 AM
We're currently filming a time-lapse of the whole ground works supported with some close-ups. Hope to release the first part over the weekend.

Good man.
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Silent but Ledley on June 10, 2021, 06:37:56 AM
I'm no drainage expert but I did use the type of pipe the man on the machine is using. Its laid into the channel (with a slight fall)and out to to an outlet (the deeper the channel the better) and then backfilled with fine stone. The pipe has thousands of tiny holes in it which allows water (sieved and cleaned somewhat by going through the stone) to percolate into the pipe and form a type of river bed within the pipe. Apparently it does take some time for the system to become effective as the water has to make its way to the pipe over time, but OMG it does work and work well.  The amount of water which mine dispersed on a real wet day was literally like turning a tap on. But there needs to be a adequate outlet! SBL
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: One Foot in the Grave on June 10, 2021, 07:44:50 AM
But there needs to be a adequate outlet

We haven't had one of those since Jordan Hulme quit....
Title: Re: Are the diggers in yet ?
Post by: Alty Dave on June 10, 2021, 11:20:52 AM
But there needs to be a adequate outlet

We haven't had one of those since Jordan Hulme quit....

Quality  ;D