But few have seen it since we have shut down. Remember all of the lines everywhere? Those lines represented all the "stuff" in the ground that we need to dig up and find. So we dig up what we know and can find and then stake it with a colored ribbon (orange = heads , pink = wires , green = irrigation lines and valves)
Here comes the HEAVY METAL
We have to find all of the stuff so the machines don't find it for us. This picture is where the bull dozer found an irrigation line that was close to the surface.
After the bull dozers clear off all of the organic material, its time to bury it. Here is the first couple of scoops on #7 fairway. The material generated out of the pit has been very clean, which means we should have a good sandy base for the course.
Here's what the pits look like after they have been dug out! You can see the difference in the color of the materials in the pit. The dark stuff is the old grass and organics from the tops of the fairways. These pits are approximately 15 feet deep.
Here is the pipe being layed from the lake behind 10 green going towards 13 green
Here is pic of where the new blue tee on #7 will be. Looks a lot longer of a shot than it really is. The contractor has reshaped the lake banks making the lake larger in certain spots.
Someone asked me the other day how we were going to know where the green's perimeters are when everything is dirt. Each green has a drain clean out and and wire that has been buried in the green's well that can be traced and marked. Here is a pic of the clean out stub up. It also shows the barrier that was installed to keep the native soil from wicking out moisture from the green's mix.
Here is pic of the actual wire. Notice the wicking barrier.
Here's Keith hooking up the tracking device so he can mark the actual perimeter of the green for the contractor
That's it in a nut shell. The first week has been exciting and fun. Stay tuned for more updates.
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