The Other Side of Golf Maintenance
We get used drums from the resort for disposal. If they’re not clean, we clean them. This batch had one for laundry detergent that had about a gallon left. Since we use detergent to spray on the equipment before washing I wondered if it would work. Not so good. It didn’t take care fo the equipment which is mostly organic residue and unfortunately, it was high sudsing.
Sometimes you just wonder how we make it through life.. When the course was built, we installed an above ground fuel tank, 1000 gals. The city made us position it 25 ft away from all electric and put in underground lines going to the pumps. Over the years the pumps had to be replaced and there was a certain amount of maintenance for the lines..
Trying to get the permits to move the tank and use the original configuration, of the pumps on top of the tank, I found that they had thought that we were selling fuel from this, that’s why it had to be setup the way it was.. In any case, we have moved the tank and made it as safe and secure as possible.. We do/did have this 15 X 8 reinforced slab of concrete to deal with though.
Anyone in golf knows that anything no one else wants to do ends up on the desk of the Equipment Manager. And if you ask most, that’s one of the good things about it.. Very few rules and limitations, if you can do, you usually do.. In this case, we blew out the back wall of our trash pit with the front end loader.. So how can you knockout a reinforced wall? It obviously wasn’t reinforced enough for the operator. So we moved the slab to replace the missing wall. I say we but we couldn’t do it.. I could only pickup one corner of the slab with our backhoe. We asked the great folks at Athletic Services if they could do it for us and they did..
Here’s picking it up
Here’s moving it down the road
Here’s flipping it over
Here’s putting it in.
And this is almost done..
So now we have a new push wall to help load the trash with. This thing would have been difficult to get rid of or move. Now it’s being put to a great use and at almost no cost to the company..