Friday, January 25, 2013

First 2013 update

 The storm last week brought cold temps, snow, and even a flood.
You can see in the picture how high the water came out of the creek on # 8 tees. You can see how the snow fell on the areas not covered by water.
 # 4 green looking back at fairway
 Once again the silt came out and covered the bermudagrass and filled the bunker. We have since cleaned and removed the silt.
 Some of the debris left under # 15 bridge after the high waters
 
We are using the trencher attachment to do a little tree root pruning along the fairways.
 You can see just how many feeder roots the trees put out. 
All these roots compete for moisture and nutrients with the struggling bermudagrass.
We have redefined edged on bunkers, also redistrubted the sand to adequat sand depts.
 Another task we took on was to redesign the sand bins. One of our issues was that the water runoff collected in the back of the bin.
 Keeping the sand moisture levels high
 We used the Bobcat to reposition all the stacked block.
 We turned the bin pararel to the slope so that runoff would not enter the bin.
By redoing the topdressing bin we will be able to purchase dry sand which will help with working sand into the aerificaion holes. Giving us better dilution of the greens mix.