What a winter we have had this year. We seen it all. Lots of snow (25''), some ice and quite a bit of rain. We seen temperatures near 0 and highs near 70. Since November we have had 16'' of moisture on the golf course from snow, ice and rain. We have been getting some sort of precipitation every 7 to 10 days. It has been very difficult trying to get projects done this winter. We have cut down quite a few trees. (see previous post) Last week we fell two more big White Oaks that died. One was north of #1 greens just across the cart path in edge of woods. The second one was in woods behind our gas tanks at shop. I had to call a expert to get these two big trees on the ground. We did not want to destroy the cart path on #1 and I was worried about our gas tanks with the second tree. We caught a break last week and was able to spray our fairways with our pre-emergent herbicide. I was beginning to get worried if we were going to be able to get the spray rig out on the wet golf course. Just so happen we had 2 days of high winds and then it turned cold and froze the ground. The spray rig had no trouble. We finished just before the last weeks snow. The high winds did give us a huge mess with limbs that fell but it was worth the mess to get our fairways sprayed. Looks like warmer temperatures are in the future but rain is also in the forecast. We desperately need some dry time. Below are some video's of the tree's we cut down and spraying fairways.
Spraying pre-emergent herbicide on 18 fairway.
Cutting down White Oak #1
White Oak behind gas tanks at Maintenance Building.
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