Our course drained two of our 3 reserve ponds this year due to massive droughts. They’re actually talking about digging them out deeper with them dry to hold more water next year as a just in case.
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Yeah that sounds like a pretty smart play, it’s not outrageously expensive and I think we have all seen wet and dry stretches become more pronounced. Probably time to safe guard against it now.
Yeah. We’ve had two straight dry summers. Last summer one of our public courses lost half their greens because their pump died and they couldn’t get a new one in due to shortages.
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That’s nightmare fuel, pump failures at those times are death sentences.
We had a course close ish to us this summer get a pythium root outbreak that multiple agronomists had never seen and their sprayer broke down the day they tried to spray against it.
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@hellofriends any experiences with pythium in any way ?
I dealt with it in California.
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not that I’m aware of, but that’s above my paygrade too 
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Do you care to disclose you current position ? I’m not trying to put you on the spot at all.
no real position, just a veteran member of a crew
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Yeah the local course lost 9 total greens in 48 hours with a sprayer breakdown and an unknown variant. Crazy 24 hours I never want to deal with.
Canadian Thanksgiving weekend so we had an early day today, sadly it was 35k/ph winds as highs of 15 so we are going to start being covered by leaves.
Thankful for the 50k leaf vacuum we bought this spring <3
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Me trying to mess around with all those unit conversions I haven’t done since college 5 years ago
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Oh man I’m really not looking forward to that. We have been short staffed for the 2 years I’ve been working so I’ve been on a sprayer but haven’t had to do the math.
I go for my license in Jan so I have to commit to learning the math lol
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I hope the Maintenance sickos are still here after a little break, Canadian Thanksgiving and a busy week had me separated from my phone a quite a lot.
I have some major irrigation fixes to do in the coming week along with blowout of the irrigation system and a heavy top dressing of the greens to put them to bed for the winter. Can’t wait to see the feedback and fellow guys out there working the same grind !
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15 wires spliced and tested all to never end up finding the right wire, it was nice to have the GF there to tell me which wrong heads we tested lol
New solution is to run a jumper wire from a working solo head, at this point idc and that works.
@sundaybag still waiting for your appearance into this thread !
I know you have some wild stories from the completion and maintenance of Brough Creek National
Very cool thread! Fun to read through. I have a ton of stories - good and bad!
Anything specifically you want to know?
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Appreciate the response !
I have many questions and I will always enjoy any updates on you have, but I guess I’d love to hear if you have any major fall projects at Brough Creek this year ? Im currently into my week of irrigation hell before we have to blow the system out…