May 12

A lot has happened since the last posting. Holes 6-18 are stripped and buried, 7-9 are completely drained, 6-9 are shaped, shaping on 10-13 will start tomorrow. 14 & 18 will start getting cut and filled (this is the process of just moving mass quantities of dirt around with out shaping it).

Here's a progressionary clip set of the new rock walls on 16







Here is some pics of the shaping work taking place on the new tees on 6.


The shaper is working on the front left corner of the 6 white tee. The new littoral planting around the left side of the teeing ground will give you and feeling of being high off the ground.


This pic shows how far the golf course was on Mooring Park's land. The stakes on the left are the property boundry, and you can see the heads taken off on the right. The chain link fence will be removed and the fence line will be re-established on the property line with some of their new extruded aluminum fence. It will look first class!


I had to post this pic.....sometimes the ground isn't has hard as you think, even for a bull dozer. This machine is stuck in 5 foot of mud, then just sank. Its not just a simple thing of pulling it out as the muck creates a suction around the machine. You have to dig it out to break the suction, then pull it out with something even bigger!


Here the crew is hard at work clearing off the strippings to the bury pits.


Look at all of the machines in this pic. This is why the contractor is moving so fast on stripping the ground.


My biggest challenge right now is staying ahead of the stripping crew. This pic is of my crew digging up wires and burying them deeper because of the new contours of the course. What used to be deep enough, sometimes isn't any more.


The "Elephant Burial Graveyard" is officially cleared out. It took some serious muscle to get all of the "stuff" shred up. This machine isn't for digging, it has a special pair of cutters on the end so it can slice right through 24" logs no problem.



After the "Slicer" cuts the big stuff into managable pieces, the loader with a claw rake grabs the stuff and puts into the shredder.


And out the business side comes what's left....


Here's the whole production


As we get closer to grassing you will see the water being run on the course. We have to try and turn the dessert back into a place where grass will grow. It takes a lot of water to "wet" the soil once it dries out completely.


That's it for now. Stay tuned for more updates to come.