May 10, 2010
My first task of my internship involved an irrigation fix on hole #9.
- There was a bust in the pipe that needed replaced.
- New fittings and pipe were added to repair the pipe.
- Plywood was used to transport across cart paths and the clubhouse driveway.
May 11, 2010
I was responsible for a crew of two to remove standing water away from the edges of the new cart path on hole #18.
Graded the gravel base for the other new section of the cart path on hole #18.
Sprayed native fescue with SpeedZone @ 1.5 oz/m; Fusilade @ .5 oz/m; Chem Surf @ 1.5 pts/100gal H2O.
- Holes #1, 2, 3, 4 Native grasses that were fairway, tee and green side surrounds were sprayed.
- Could not drive on Bent or Kentucky Blue Grass because the above pesticides would dormant the grass.
- The main target of this spray application was any plant that was not a fine fescue. The goal is to have a solid stand of flowing fescue in all fairway, tee and greenside surrounds.
May 12, 2010
Led a small crew to organize the irrigation and tiling building. Worked inside because of the rain.
There was a night and day difference from when we started to when we finished.
May 13, 2010
Helped Chad (superintendent) continue and finish cart path frame work on hole #18.
Later that day we poured concrete for the new path.
- 6 Concrete trucks were used to complete the task.
- 6 Concrete buggies were used to transport the concrete from the cement trucks to the newly framed cart path area.
May 14, 2010
Continued to Spray Native fescue with same chemicals and rates that I listed above in the May 11th Column.
May 15, 2010
Cleaned up new cart path on #18
Trimmed around all railroad ties, hole information posts and bridge corners.
May 16, 2010
Continued to spray Native fescue with same chemicals and rates listed above in May 11 Column.
May 17, 2010
Spent a few hours hand raking bunkers for a tournament.
Trimmed stacked sod face bunker on hole #3 with scissors.
***Adopted a golf course dog that was previously here, his name is Max, he is 3 years old. Greater Swiss Mountain Dog
tuesday may 11th- 4 hours, sat in the shop for an hour waited until the rain past. it didn't so we went to the irrigation building and took apart some heads and put them back together. he showed me how to set them to spry like 90 180 270 or 360. back to shop sat around until ten. then decided to call it a day cuz rain wasn't gonna let up.
ReplyDeletewednesday may 12th- 8 hours, cut collars with the walk behind, got used to running that machine. then had to take down stairways on the lake bank cuz i guess dnr was coming and they wern't suppose to be there. then dug a trench put some p rock down and tiled a fairway for better drainage.
thursday may 13th- 1 hour, waited to see if rain was gonna let up. it wasn't gonna too wet to work
friday may 14th- 8 hours, cut collars by myself, raked a bunch of bunkers by hand. then to kill some time we picked up some loads of sticks
saturday may 15th- 3 hours, rolled greens with another worker he showed me how. and that was pretty much it.
sunday may 16th- 3 hours, rolled greens again this morning although this time it was all by myself, the other guy didnt show up so i had to do all 18. then we are done. members don't like us out on the weekends. didnt get a lot of hours this week, got rained out 2x and i didnt get here till tuesday.
Monday, may 17th. 8 hours- Mowed fairways with a toro reelmaster for about 3 1/2 hours. then went up measured out 66 feet and marked where we were gonna put in new irrigation heads for the new green that we will be doing on hole 4. then had to dig down and get to the irrigation pipe on old 4 greens so we can start to trench and connect them tomorrow. then played with the walkie talkie irrigatin system and put in commands to turn sprinklers on and off. that was pretty cool.
ReplyDeletetuesday, may 18th. 13 hours- aerated 3 greens, cultivated the plugs and then spread them on the nursery. which was 80-20 mix and had been just seeded. we then rolled it and fertilized it and threw down some malorganite. then we hooked up all the irrigation pipes and heads. around the new green we are doing. that took a long time. cuz we had to hook up 8 heads. he let me do a couple by myself like the electrical shit. i got a pretty good feel for it.
wednesday, may 19th. 9 hours- cut cups by myself. all 18 then 3 on chipping and 6 on putting greens. then we and the other intern fertilized all the greens with a 12-0-24 fertilizer .6 n/1000sq about 10 bags. had to water each green after wards for ix minutes so we just had to punch in the code on the walkie talkies. then found out we had a leaky head on the new #4 green so we had to dig that up (fix it tomorow)
Thursday, may 20th. 8 hours- mowed greens with the walk behind. got pretty good at it by the 6th green after numerous fuck ups. then me and the other intern fixed leaky heads and raised and lowered some more irrigation heads throughout the day so the mower didnt hit em and bust them.
ReplyDeletefriday, may 21st. 8 hours- mowed greens and then blew them off with a leaf blower. than we fixed a drain tile that had been crushed cuz the boss ran it over with a bobcat or something. fixed that all up and then fixed another leaky head .
Saturday, may 22 3 hours- hand raked bunkers the whole time.... FML
Sunday, may 23 3 hours- mowed greens with the toro greenmaster walk behind
Monday, May 24th. 8 hours- mowed greens for 3 hours. replaced 2 irrigation heads. flushed system then watered the nursery. after that helped out with the building of a new cart path. very hot out today. like 91 degrees.