It has been a busy week. We finished our green aerification. I would like to thank my crew for a job well done. This is not an easy job. We completed both the front and back nine greens by 3:30 p.m. each day. I would also like to thank Bellerive County Club for loaning us their Core Collector that mounts on the back of our Aerator. This saved us a tremendous amount of work. Here are a few facts on our aeration process. We have 2 acres of greens. It took 9 people, 18 hours to complete this job. We used 40 tons of sand. That is at least 40 round trips with our sand topdresser from Maintenance building to all greens. We put 400 lbs. of fertilizer and 360 lbs. of soil conditioner on all greens.
We verticut greens before aerated them
Dan aerating, box on the back was loaned to us by Bellerive C.C.
Core Collector doing its job.
Collector leaves plugs in a pile all we have to do is shovel in trickster
We then blow greens off. Helps open up holes
Topdressing is next
We then brush sand into all holes
Green after brushing
Video of Green being aerated. Notice how collection box pulls plugs to end of green.
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