2012 Fall aerification Damage -Updated

So you've seen the basic process that we adhere to 2 times each year during our aerification of the greens.  This process has proven to be excellent for us over the last several years and other than some minor tweaks to a few things here and there everything runs smoothly...until Fall 2012.  The large Sweeper machine that we use to clean the greens of the cores dug deeply into #3 green.  This has not happened to us during any of the previously aerifications.  We have been able to get the area fairly smooth and we will continue to work on it and plug it as needed.  We are still trying to determine why this happened this time.

  Here are a few pictures.

*when it happened again on #5 green(less severe) we parked the machine and picked up the cores by hand

I always take a bunch of pictures, but when I saw the machine buried into the green I felt too sick to grab my camera. 



This was taken the first time we laid back all of the pieces into the ground.




The following day

 


  


10 days after the damage occurred


 

15 days later




17 days later



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21 days