Reinforcing a grassed surface

Details Reinforcing a grassed surface Reinforcing a grassed surface

1988-03-30

1990-04-17

DeMille, Danton D.

Plant husbandry

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47 9, 47 56, 405258, E02D 300, A01B 7902

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049168550

ABSTRACT:
It is highly desirable to reinforce the grassed surface layer of a sports ground in order to reduce damage to the surface, e.g. from horse racing or from playing football. In order to provide a good surface layer, a biaxially-orientated, integrally-extruded plastics material mesh structure layer is laid on a base of sand strengthened with small, flexible, randomly-placed, plastics material mesh pieces. A top dressing is put on top of the mesh structure layer, grass is seeded or planted, and a machine is then used after the grass has grown to slit the mesh structure layer into pieces 1 which may be e.g. 100.times.100 mm or 150.times.150 mm, each having a number of complete mesh openings. If a piece is caught by a horse's hoof or by an footballer's stud, it may be ripped out, but the whole mesh layer is not ripped out.

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