Originally Posted by PatrickMead#13:
If water is a concern, why couldn't someone bury a soaker hose type system under the track surface and put moisture in the track from slightly under the surface? I've always wondered why anyone hasn't done this yet.....
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It would be interesting to see someone try this, but I don't think the physics would work out.
Just think about it....you have a hard packed track, you turn on the soaker system, the areas where your water is gets more moist, but the water only comes up where the soakers are located. Now you have very wet spots and hard packed spots. I think the only thing you would do is create a bunch of ruts in the track.
An idea that I have seen tracks do successfully is to have a "mister" water truck. It puts down a very fine mist of water on the track. This gets mosture onto the track but does not overwater it.