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It's funny to see a skate park so close to home. I play softball in a men's league across the way from it. This seems like a lazy solution that will be very har
by gfs 6y ago
It's funny to see a skate park so close to home. I play softball in a men's league across the way from it. This seems like a lazy solution that will be very hard to clean up after the fact though.
- lb1lf 6y agoCrude, but effective. I wouldn't be too concerned about cleaning it up afterwards - 90% can be dug out quite rapidly, the rest calls for half a dozen skaters with brooms or an industrial size vacuum cleaner. (Think: a trailer with a beefy diesel engine on it to power the suction pumps - I watched one clean out a drydock once. Never thought I'd find cleaning up a mess so fascinating.)
- dgrin91 6y agoCan you tell if there is actually 37 tons of sand there? 37 tons seems like... well.. a ton of sand for lack of a better phrase. In the video it seems like there was only few inches over a moderately sized park. It doesn't seem like its really 37 tons. Maybe though it just doesn't show the whole park, or I'm just bad at estimating.
- bredren 6y agoSand weighs ~100 lbs per cubic ft. 37 tons = 74000 lbs or 740 cubic ft 3 inches of depth gets you 4 sq ft of coverage 740*4 gets you 2960 sq. feet. The city says the park is 14,000 sq feet. [1] In the video you can see they avoided spreading it in a lot of areas because they didn't have nearly enough! Conclusion: Sand is heavy [1] https://www.san-clemente.org/Home/Components/FacilityDirectory/FacilityDirectory/43/2701 https://www.san-clemente.org/Home/Components/FacilityDirecto...
- candu 6y agoTo put that in context: 1 cubic foot of flour is 37 lbs; of sugar, 50 lbs; of water, 62 lbs. If you've ever tried to pick up a sack / large bucket of any of these things, it's like that but even denser. Compound that by the usual "volume varies as the cube of a side" thing, and this gets really heavy fast.
- steanne 6y agoimage search for one ton of sand, you'll see that it fits in a large bag.
- itronitron 6y agoone ton of sand is about a 2 foot cube, so 37 tons would be about 12 feet by 12 feet by 2 feet deep, they really only need to fill in the bottom part of the skate park to render it mostly useless.
- xouse 6y agoThe easiest way to estimate/visualize it is that the normal dump trucks you see on the road are 20 ton dump trucks. So at a maximum it's two dump truck loads, which doesn't go very far. In reality sand is pretty dense/heavy so it's even less than that.
- pif 6y agoMaybe, but it's a fast solutions. Social isolation is important enough to be imposed, like, now!