Aerification & Drill and Fill

The Team Aerifying 111's Green

This week we are aerifying the golf course including the greens.  As usual the first day wasn't too smooth but the second day we made up ground.  The greens are finished.

Topdressing 10's Green

Now comes the fun of cleaning up all the excess sand for this process and continual dragging in the sand into the holes.

Almost Finished Topdressing 16's Green

During this process we utilize around 100+ tons of 30-grade kiln dried sand between the drill and fill process and the actual aerification.

Speaking of drill and filling, this time the process was greatly changed from years past.  In the past my team carried buckets of sand to fill the hoppers of the machine but this year we borrowed the sand hauler from Desert Falls which freed up my team and this was critical was the reduced crew size.



Borrowed Sand Hauler form Desert Falls

The purpose of the drill and fill is to remove low percolation soil and replacing this with the kiln dried sand.  As you can see in the pictures we can make dirt clods with this poor draining soil.