Yeah, I wouldn’t lay bets on this particular device being precisely environmentally friendly, but there is a certain coolness factor to a bicycle-powered “Manually Calibrated Pesticide Application System”.
After touring some of the local athletic venues choosing products and equipment to build the new baseball fields for the Olympics, we stopped by the Fentai Softball complex because our Chinese contractor Chai Yong, told me they had a boom spray rig for applying fungicides and liquid products. Lets just say I was not ready for this beauty when they literally rolled it out for our inspection!
The post linked above is actually from the first of March, but it’s one of several covering baseball field preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. The blog is Murray Cook’s Field Blog, the latest being from a couple of days ago:
“Slow Road to China’s Baseball Fields”
To the trained eye, the Baseball Fields are beginning to take shape in Beijing for the 2008 Olympics. Slowly but surely wheel barrow by wheel barrow material is being placed on the fields. Proving to many that moving 1500 tons of pea gravel over the sub base of the field without a bulldozer or grader can be done.
Here’s more about Murray, who has a very cool job.
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