New Turf at PGE!!!

It's time for celebration among everyone that plays in, or goes to games in PGE park.

Kerry Eggers with the note (see the last paragraph): Tribune Article

The craptacular turf is finally getting replaced! NeXturf wasn't a bad surface when it was first installed, but it had long since been worn out.

My guess is that the Timbers will have to play with some brown patches of turf. I believe that the OSU Beavers field is all FieldTurf, with the baselines in brown. However the problem for the Timbers is that the pitchers mound and home plate area have to be dirt. I think that they will continue to remove the mound (as they have in the past), and that one or both of the fields will be slightly re positioned to make sure that the home plate circle is not on the football pitch. Again, this is just a guess...

Edit:

Old turf is on it's way out!

I watched for about half an hour as they removed the old turf. As I got there they were most of the way through rolling up one long stip of turf. All the old lines were clearly visable under the turf. I guess that's whay they say that most cleanings only push the dirt down into a carpet pad.



Wokers duct tape the roll closed:



They had made good progress, it looks to me like they will be finished pulling up the turf tomorrow, however with the lights they could work all night:





They pulled a pole of somesort along under the stip of turf pealing it off like those wire cheese slicers.




Bigger versions of the pictures are available on my photobucket page.


Also some from Donald (DB)