We had a good day at F-troop this morning even though we were down on numbers with 12 volunteers we did manage to get a lot of work done.
We had Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge, Peter Murphy, Des Wilson, Warren Gray, Peter Martin, Fred Middleton, Bruce White, Di Beechey, Jan Walker & Rosalie Dyer.
Warren was on roughcutting duty for the morning.
Duncan, Geoff, Des & Fred were the "tree gang" working their way through the fairways removing low hanging branches.
Bruce White & Peter Murphy were one team for the removal of branches and rubbish off the course using the F-Troop Ute.
Peter Martin was on pick up duty with the car & trailer & worked on his own due to our depleted numbers today. Peter alone collected four trailer loads of rubbish during the morning.
Di Beechey started early cleaning up the BBQ area & the carpark nearby.
Jan Walker did some cleanup work at the front of the clubhouse.
Rosalie Dyer worked on the gardens & grounds at the 1st tee.
My mission today was to clean up at the 3rd & 5th tees & then helped Peter with the clean up of the cart path at the back of the 2nd green. I was amazed that we collected two trailer loads of rubbish just from the edge of the path. The path is two feet wider than it appeared to be yesterday just by clearing off all the rubbish that had settled on the path over the years.
We still have got more work to do in that area before we can green tick it.
Morning tea was very welcome as the morning had got quite hot & we needed refreshments.
Chef John did not disappoint with some lovely slices of iced cakes to accompany our tea & coffee. Thanks John!
The course was busy with social players today but we still managed to cover a wide area of maintenance.
At 6.00pm tonight we decided to do a test run using the poison wands to kill off some of the rogue grasses that are invading our fairways. We want to systematically work through each of the fairways with the assistance of Member volunteers & are trying to work out the best way of doing it. We had three volunteers for today - Mark Stimpson, Peter Martin & myself & we managed to rope in two other Members Col Matterson & Alan Graham who were innocently at the club at the time & their help was appreciated. We will see how effective our efforts have been over the next week & then will plan for further treatments. Any Members who can volunteer some time late in the afternoon to treat the fairways in the next few weeks please contact Mark Stimpson or myself. Your help would be appreciated.
My thanks to Anne Stimpson for her contribution of the "grasses" photos.
YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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