Look what I found. (see image of Jerry and Carlos deciding where to set up camp)
I know I don’t have the seniority of the established TP’ers, but having only attended three, I remember how beautiful it was to be able to be up around Run A Muck, get a break from the crowds (slightly crowdphobic - don’t know when that happened to me) and see the stage. It was a shock to see the taller fence put up higher.
Don’t you think a lower fence would be less hazardous and an easier construction than a raised platform around all that home brew? (Especially if we are talking wheel chair accessible)
I want to make it clear that low fence or high :lol :pipe, I will be having a great time with a couple hundred of my closest friends.
From the direction he is pointing, it looks like Jerry was wanting to set up next to the porta-pots.
I think the idea of a shorter fence to make Auntie Hope happy is a great idea! I’m guessing that they rent the fencing for the festival so am hoping the rental place has shorter stuff to choose from. Maybe with barbed wire to help keep us at bay?
I say we incorporate a few of the ideas, ummm say we do the fence building/repair as Hippy stated and as we work we can have the wristband shock collars shock us* if we dont work fast enough. And of cource keep the fence to direct the flow of trafic :lol So i think that about covers it :cheers
*Shocking of festival fence builders will be under the strict supervision of the Town Park management :mad :eek
Yep… I’m in agreement too. The chain-link fence along the third baseline of the Town Park campground is nothing more than a slap in the face from Q to Planet Bluegrass and the Town Park campers. I’ve seen a few tarps or tents tied to the wooden fence in years past without harm, and people like myself like to sit on the plit-rail and take in the performances from camp from time to time. Q’s reason for the extra high chain-link fence is lame. He said he’s protecting the old wood fence. The thing is rotting and falling apart in places. The fence should just be replaced. I’d even donate some money towards that end if Q would agree not to put up the chain-link. I think he’s spiteful and just on a power-trip. There’s no real need to “direct traffic” in this portion of the Town Park campground boundry as John R states, because Planet Bluegrass staff or volunteers are stationed in places where foot traffic direction is needed. Let’s get rid of the chain-link fence!
the trimming idea caught my eye. if someone was to bring a pair of clippers, a “viewing window” could be built into the fence, and the frame would still be where it was placed. as i mentioned before, when i go to run-a-muck, i’m there to visit it’s citizens, my rig is still ‘watching’ the show though. :mic
i’ll get some pics when i’m out there for mountainfilm.
John R - I like the way you think :thumbsup … but …
After a couple days of feeling like we were behind bars, we considered un-wire-ing the sections in front of the Town Hall shade tents (a couple of 10’x20’s where anyone with TP access can come and hang-out) and just laying them on the ground in front of the wooden fence, but then we thought about the trouble we might cause and the reputation we’d gain by doing such an act. I don’t think any of us want to jepordize the favor Town Park is doing for Planet Bluegrass by allowing festival camping in the park. From what I’ve heard, the only festival goers permitted to camp in Town Park each summer are us Bluegrass festivarians. In the end, we left the chain-link alone. A viewing platform would be an excellent solution… but I’ve sworn off towing the trailer this summer… some other nut would have to tow in the supplies.
I would like to add another possible yet completely useless idea that we encase the entire split-rail fence in concrete to protect it during the festival…and for millennia to come!!
Maybe someone else knows which would be more expensive and time consuming:
a) building a scaffolding that would need a railing, stairs and wheelchair ramp if we are really objecting for the sake of the differently-abled
b) renting a lower chain link fence
Is there anyone who has mentioned this to planet folks. I think discussing alternatives before it’s too late - and discussing alternatives prior before any gorilla action (snipping fence areas) might be a simple solution. If it is indeed for protecting the fence and not keeping people out.
I will be happy to make a beautiful cloth banner that asks people who don’t know, not to hop the fence when they can walk around, and to save the wood fence.
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PS. I do understand the festivarian challenge of building something, I was there when the Steamboat camp tried to harness the power of the waterfall
I’m invisioning something along the lines of the platform type used to peer down into garbage trucks as they enter a landfill. The thing has stairs, railed platform about 7 to 10 feet off the ground, and can accomodate a lot of festivarians. We’ll get the boys over at Steamboat to construct a lift for Kenny. :hop
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