More and more going on at once

The weather is holding out and things are really starting to happen around here. I've got contractors working on repairing my building, a contractor root pruning the golf course, someone is grinding stumps, a crew of tree trimmers, 5 guys finishing the bunkers, 4 guys wrapping up edging the cart paths, a guy repairing sod all over the golf course and the County fixing Burning Tree Drive. My department looks like an ant hill after it's been kicked.  People are scrambling everywhere. 

Now that the trees are getting older around the course, it's time to prune back their roots. The tree roots compete with the turf for nutrients and moisture and can cause severe turf thinning. So to help the turf get as much of an advantage as possible routine root pruning is a common practice. 

The root pruning machine uses two massive knives that rotate through the soil and cut up to 4 inch roots. 

The unit is not that big but is extremely heavy. What is unusual about the machine is that the knives rotate very slowly. The tractor drives a massive gear reduction box that slowly shoves the knives through the ground. 

What's also nice about the process is that it doesn't leave huge scars to deal with. The slow but very deliberate movement of the knives dosesn't displace soil like a trencher does. The lines should heal over in a couple weeks.

Something being done that has nothing to do with the golf course has to do with Burning Tree Drive. The County is out installing some rip/rap embankment stabilization material along the ditch behind 3 green. 

The rip/rap should help keep the road edge from falling into the ditch like it was. 

The bunkers are all finished so now the focus will be the cart paths. We are still trying to experiment on what is the best way to deal with them. We tried the Roto-tiller and it didn't work so well, but  we have a couple other ideas that we're going to try.