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Posted by: srellis---------------------
We live in SW Kansas where the days are hot and windy during our outdoor season coupled with very silty-loam (very fine and powdery) dirt that dries fast. Our track builders have a heck of a time keeping the tracks moist. They can water all night and have puddles of water standing in the track at practice but by the 5th or 6th moto it is usually very dusty.
Does anyone have any suggetstions on anything we incorporate in with the dirt inexpensively to help hold the moisture?
Thanks
Posted by: mx547---------------------
some of the hard-pack tracks here used to add sawdust and/or straw with minimal success.
Posted by: MX-727---------------------
Sawdust and horse manure
Posted by: srellis---------------------
We need to do something but they are afraid to try anything for fear it would make it worse.
My boys rode an Arenacross race in Guthrie, OK last year. After the race, we found out that they didn't bring in any extra dirt to build the track. My boys were pretty grossed out to hear they were crashing into dirt that may have had horse and cow poop in it!! Manure is in good supply around here...
Posted by: sweden_345---------------------
At the ''local'' race this weekend they moisted the track and it smelled ****
We wondered what it was in the water and suddenly one of the boys who lives at a farm burst out: It smells exactly like pig poop/pee!!!
It turns out that they had took the water from an pond at a pig farm around the corner that they had led the **** out in.
Man we were disgusted!
Posted by: nephron---------------------
I could live with cow crap, but swine urine is over the top.
Posted by: sweden_345---------------------
Yeah, poop is poop but pee?!!
Yuck
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