Winter Weekly Notes Since last Update:
- Week
of 12/19 Finished Deep Tine Aeration on Tees, Approaches, and Greens / Sprayed
our final Plant Protectants Greens, Tees, and Fairways / Heavy application
of sand topdressing for winter protection on greens.
- Week
of 12/23 One more medium application of sand topdressing on greens / 2 small
snowstorms / Earl and Mauricio on vacation.
- Week
of 12/ 30 Shop work and Dump Truck Repair / Earl and Mauricio on vacation.
- Week
of 1/7 Mauricio and Earl back from vacation and in shop grinding reels and
servicing equipment / Cristian and Diego attending Suny Delhi Apprentice
Program (thank you Dan) / Webinars and Recertification
- All
Pesticide Reporting, 2025 License Recertifications, Water Reporting, and
continued education will be addressed in the coming weeks and ongoing.
- Setup
meetings and discussed our Tennis Court surfaces with Tennis Planning Corp.
as per requests to elevate our surfaces. We have a detailed plan on our we
can achieve our goals and I’m looking forward to discussing with all of
you and working with Glen and his team. Alina/Dan lets jump on a call
soon.
WINTER WORK EQUIPMENT
- All
cutting units have been cleaned, sharpened, greased on site as of 12/31
except our fairway cutting units which will be completed in the coming
weeks. Once the 70+ cutting units are complete we then service machines
and make any necessary repairs.
- Our
Fairway Mowers this off season and getting full roller bearing rebuild
kits as they are now 8 yrs old with over 3,000 hrs. and need a major
overhauling.
- All
carts, rollers, aerators, and tractors will be serviced and checked for
repair work by 3/1/24.
This work will be performed
by Mauricio our full-time mechanic and supplemented with all of us being hands
on in the shop during the winter months should we get snowed in and unable to
work outside.
WINTER WORK PROPERTY
- Property
detail as needed from winter or windstorms as needed. We always have
someone here for storms and always have someone check the grounds daily.
- Continue
the clearing of small under growth, saplings, and fallen branches in
wooded buffer areas, outside front circle, buffer area between road and
parking lot, parking lot property line, left of hole #2, left of hole #3,
left of #6 tee. We have some larger tree work to complete but until we make
repairs to our TL-10 Takeuchi we will not be able to move wood.
- Should
we have an early thaw I have several drainage areas to address and drain.
- Renovated
designated cart path areas detailed in our winter/spring 2025 project
plan.
- 2/1/25
I will be contacting all employees to do a check in, as I always do, to gauge
their interest in returning for the upcoming and see how their time away
is going. I think this is important, so our men don’t feel like they are
forgotten while they are away. These guys are the driving force that allows
us all to look good and be proud of our property.
