About £70 per week for a 500 litre drinking water bowser that tows behind a vehicle with a standard ball hitch, I've hired them before (although not for an Ultimate event). They do take forever to fill, though............
Pablo -- 3 -- Flaming Galahs On 5/13/08, M Rose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "2 - I as a TD then went out and bought 40 4or 6 litre bottles on Saturday > to suppliment the shortfall. I also bought 56 2 litre bottles for the tent > area for people to be able to fill up from." > "5 - UKUA players nicked most of the big water bottles that i bought so i > have to go and get a further 20 bottles on the Sunday morning." > not having a go particularly, but does this not strike anyone as > inefficient? instead of focusing on what was bad, how about focusing on how > it could be improved? in my opinion, those little crappy plastic water > bottles have always been a waste of time (and money it would seem, judging > by the amount of new bottles needed per tournament). why not follow the > example of some of the European tournaments and hire a few 1000+ litre water > trailers and just have them dotted around the venue?* > * not done any research into costs but surely it can't be that cost > inefficient or nobody would use them > matt > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: hannah easter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: brit disc <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, 13 May, 2008 1:07:40 PM > Subject: [BD] WATER AT MANSFIELD - AND APPOLOGIES > > Water was a problem this is my summary of what happened... would have > helped if people had filled up there own water bottle at least for first > game... but alas no... (this is not a dig and please don't retaliate) > > I was not going to post this to brit disc to try to prevent the debate ;) > no such luck.... please be assured that the Board are looking into this and > the other problems that have occured in the TOUR as a whole... i > > just thought i would summarise the problems at tour 3 re water... > > 1 - We the UKUA din't have enough water bottles. This was not discovered > until i collected the equipment from Jack at tour 2 (ONLY 9 WATER BOTTLES > LEFT from 20 that went out for Tour 1), I did try to order more bottles > after tour 2 but could not get any in time as they were out of stock. THIS > IS AN ISSUE THAT THE UKUA ARE LOOKING AT.... > > 2 - I as a TD then went out and bought 40 4or 6 litre bottles on Saturday > to suppliment the shortfall. I also bought 56 2 litre bottles for the tent > area for people to be able to fill up from. > > 3 - I walked around the pitches at the hot points on Sunday with Ice packs > for all the teams on the far pitches and free ice lollies to try to keep > people cool. > > 4 - The ground staff were not as proactive as previous years. NO MATTER > HOW MANY TIMES ASKED!!! > > 5 - UKUA players nicked most of the big water bottles that i bought so i > have to go and get a further 20 bottles on the Sunday morning. > > 6 - the cub scout group that i had tried to employ pulled out on thursday > morning due to lack of numbers (there was to be 2 scouts per pitch) that > teams could ask for more water etc... > > POINT 6 WOULD I THINK HAVE SOLVED THE ISSUES THAT OCCURED, but these > things happen.... > > YOU ALL HAVE MY APPOLOGIES! > > SORRY > > Hannah > > PS who could have figured that the weather would be THAT good in Mansfield > (JOKE.... PLEASE DONT SHOUT AT ME) > > PPS the rubbish was aweful, but i did pay people to clear it up > > > --------------------------------- > Sent from Yahoo! Mail. > A Smarter Email. > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Sent from Yahoo! Mail. > A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed > -- "I don't get people. What's their appeal, precisely? They waddle around with their haircuts on, cluttering the pavement like gormless, farting skittles. They're awful." __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
