New runway for our club

[Grossman56]

Boy, if it was only that way in every State!!
What a great place to live in and what a great field to look forward to, congrats Beeg, took a Hurricane to get a great field, who'd a thunk it!!

Grossman56

[OV10]

Damn Beeg........kudos to the person(s) in the club to negotiate with the local/county to be picking up the expense. Those dirt movers ain't cheap by the hour.

[farmflyer]

Thanks for the invitation you never know I may just show up one day.

[Beeg]

I’m sure y’all are excited to be done and flying on it. Looks like it will be a great facility when your done.

Yes, we're hoping to make it a premier RC field in the Houston area. I know your a long way up in the Permian Basin but if you're ever down this way drop on by!

[farmflyer]

I’m sure y’all are excited to be done and flying on it. Looks like it will be a great facility when your done.

[TiredIronGRB]

Wow, that will be awesome!

[Beeg]

We have rain expected starting tomorrow so that will delay the the application of the surface binding agent but we are all excited that we are finally getting to this point. I'll post details of product, procedure, actual finished quality and expenses once we get finished. HOPEFULLY, this will be the new big thing for not only RC airfields but the potential for many types of soil prep for durability use are numerous. Again, the county is taking a very active interest in how this all turns out for their planning of future projects due to it's low cost and environmentally friendly composition.

[Beeg]

Here's the construction progress so far..

[Beeg]

After much delay since the hurricane back in August we are FINALLY proceeding with the new runway work. Best part is we have the local dirt movers AND county doing the dirt work.

Here is a pictures of our existing airfield. the new plan and construction.

[Beeg]

This is a very interesting subject and could be a game changer for many rc fields not on airplane runways.... could you image off road and oval tracks for the car folks as well. I'm very excited to see the outcome and longevity of this product and products like it.
. The next hurdle is to keep the damn 4 wheelers from tearing it up when the club is vacant and the heathens come out to destroy everything in their path. This has been a big issue for geo tex runways and the club's that uses them..

Yep. When I was down taking the latest pictures of our field I noticed the ATV's had spun a few donuts between the covers and the runway in the grass. Maybe when we get things improved and the dirt work is finished we can focus on what it takes to minimize the accessibility of the kids coming around tearing things up.

[Gotta Know Joe Hobbies]

This is a very interesting subject and could be a game changer for many rc fields not on airplane runways.... could you image off road and oval tracks for the car folks as well. I'm very excited to see the outcome and longevity of this product and products like it.
. The next hurdle is to keep the damn 4 wheelers from tearing it up when the club is vacant and the heathens come out to destroy everything in their path. This has been a big issue for geo tex runways and the club's that uses them..

[Beeg]

Thanks Alpha. I think Rifleman was the only other regular Squawker in the area. I think he's OK too.

[Alpha]

Beeg, I'm glad you're okay. I'm a few days behind in the Stateside news (we've had two typhoons in the past nine days here in southern China), but it looks like complete madness down there in Houston. Hope all our forum family is safe.

[Beeg]

Couple more.

[Beeg]

After the hurricane....

I was able to make it into where our field is located.Not too worse for wear just need to collect all our bench's and tables and move them back into position. Unfortunately, the county is going to be REALLY business for at least a month and our runway project is not a priority. No telling when we will be able to complete the new runway. We had already pulled the GeoTex..

[Beeg]

Hurricane Party starts tonight! Ya'll are welcome to come down to Houston! At least all my foamies will float! :Scared:

[Beeg]

Bit of a delay. The supervisors said the base material that was under our Geotex has way too much sand content so they have to remove all that and then replace it with 10-15 dump truck loads of better base material. Fortunately there is major earth moving going on all around our field so the contractor said he would provide the material free of charge.
Second delay is we have a storm brewing in the gulf and that has all that sort of work on hold for the time being. Hopefully get started in another week or so when things dry out.

[MikeT]

Pretty much. If you want high compression for trucks and full size runways you can till the mixture in the top 6" or so. If you just need dust control or light load capability you can just spray it on top. The cool part is if the surface gets damaged you can take a 5gal. bucket and mix up a "mortar" which is self leveling and repair any cracks, pot holes or other damage.
We've convinced out local county into doing the work and they are suppose to do the job in about two weeks. I'll try to get pictures and video along with details. Based on the area we want done it will take about 2 to 2 1/2 containers of the stuff which run about $1,100 each. Way cheaper than concrete or asphalt and not much more than the fabric we currently have. They say the surface will be smooth like "glass" which has a few folks concerned about stopping without brakes. As cheap as it is we may put the stuff down over a large area and just "paint" the primary runway as it will also abate weeds and such so they say but Texas grass and weeds are voracious.
There is another company that sells a similar polymer based product that is a top coat in either white or black and adds texture if we don't like the smooth "natural" earth color.

Keep us posted on it. I've been researching this for use on our dirt parking lot and screening runoff around our asphalt runway.

Mike

[Beeg]

We finally have the club, county, and material supplier all singing off the same sheet of music. We will be pulling our GeoTex runway and staples tomorrow and work should commence Monday or Tuesday.
Our club president decided to go with this product and company. http://envirotechservices.com/dust-c...stabilization/

The county insisted on doing the dirt work as this is sort of a test project for them to see how the full preparation, application and final product ends up. Could be a great thing for them saving a small fortune on their county roads, walkways and yards. This was awesome as it will save us the cost of renting the equipment and/or hiring a contractor.

A representative from Evirotech also insisted in on being directly involved and supervising the soil preparation and application of their product.

Here's to hoping this system will be a super positive and economical solution for model airplane runways! As it stands, without the cost of the dirt work it will cost us about $7,000 for the material. I'll let you all know the dimensions of the runway area as the club wants to include a new crosswind runway with this project.

I hope to get at least photos and maybe some video of the process and will definitely get photos of finished project.

[quitcherbitchen]

Interesting info here. I will try and forward all this info to my club. Thanks for sharing.