On Thursday April 23, we had a small last minute arranged work party out at the field and smoothed the center of the runway with black dirt and seeded the entire runway. Scott Harrison made the suggestion and Ray Peterson arranged for a truck load of black dirt delivered and also picked up some grass seed and called a couple of us for some help with shovels and rakes. Scott arrived with his ATV, a small trailer for hauling dirt,
and some drags to pull behind the ATV to spread the dirt. Ray was there early to supervise the dirt delivery. Our new member Carl Bates and myself (Jim Mullins) arrived with shovels and we went to work.
It was going slow and then here comes Jim Kounkel on his tractor and really made things easy for us, until the tractor motor died. We fussed with it, Jim says it does this every year......the fuel line plugs up. Jim retired for the evening, it’s about 6:00 PM now and we went back to shovels.
The next thing we know, Scott and Carl are working on the tractor and it’s running. Scott made quick work of getting the rest of the dirt spread out on the runway, and we also used up that old pile of dirt that was at the east end of the pits. We finished up at 7:30 in a little thunder shower........ perfect, the new seed got watered.
The center run of the runway is much smoother and should look great when the new seed grows. It was a worthwhile project and we all had fun doing it for the club.