The number #1 question I am asked when meeting someone and the conversation turns to occupation is, What do you do in the winter? I thought I would take this first post to give you some idea of what goes on for us in the Grounds Department, while you folks are looking forward to the upcoming season.
Our number one job is to go through each piece of equipment and prepare it for the upcoming season. This entails replacing worn parts, performing tune-ups and putting a fresh grind on the cutting units.
Another project we are currently working on is refurbishing some of our accessories. We have worked hard at identifying areas where we can find some savings by trying to reuse or refurbish things in-house. We put new coatings on flag sticks, paint tee markers, recover rake handles, paint benches and cooler stations. We also like to put a coat of wax on our equipment, our ballwashers and our trash cans.
Here we are re-painting the putting green flag sticks.
Another project that we take on is the burning of our tree waste. We have three locations (behind the tennis courts, behind the 8th green and along side the 4th hole) that we accumulate leaves, branches and logs. These areas save us a large amount of money each year. By using these areas and burning them each winter we save on labor and by not having the material hauled off-site and disposed of. We obtain a burn permit from the White Bear Fire Department and this processes usually takes us about a week.
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