Tuesday, October 28, 2014

More from Tuesday

Above, we have become pretty efficient at getting rid of leaves.  Rather than picking all of them up, we installed mulcher blades on our rough units.  They do a great job turning leaves into a nice organic fertilizer source.
 
Above, #7 approach was verticut 2 directions using the Graden sand injection machine.  Since this approach is so flat, it benefited most from additional sand.  With Dryject aerification scheduled for November 10th, we needed to make room in our sand silo for a full load of fresh sand.  Our dry topdressing sand is delivered in a pneumatic tanker truck and pumped into a steel silo that can hold 30 tons of dry sand. 
 
After fairways were aerified, we dragged them with a steel mat (above) and then blew the debris to the center (below) prior to picking the material up.  We got the front 9 complete.  With rain in the forecast tomorrow, we didn't start the back 9.  Nothing is messier than having aerification plugs sitting on the ground and then getting rain.  It creates a muddy mess!