Thursday, April 7, 2016

New Invention

10 days ago we aerified all of our greens.  Rob made a new tool to help us get this job done more efficiently.  We call it the Turf Broom.  Basically it is made out of PVC piping that is connected to a Back Pack Blower.  It helps open up aerifying holes that are closed up  aerifying the greens.  We have struggled with this for some time.  In the past we would take back pack blowers  and blow the entire green trying to open up as many holes as possible.  We were not that successful opening up holes but spent a lot of man hours trying to do so.  With the new attachment on our blowers we open up 99% of the holes in a lot less time. This allows us to get sand in all of our aerifying holes.  Look at the video below.  We can broom a green in about 30 minutes and almost all holes are open. 

Notice how many holes are closed.

Turf Broom
This is after green is aerified

After Turf Broom.
Video of Broom in action

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