F-Troop - Monday 27th February 2012

We had a small crew on duty today so we had to focus in on the important tasks of the day.

It was Vets Day so we had restricted access to the course - fortunately there was plenty to do in safe areas today.

We had Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge, Rob Benson, Nigel Asken, Peter Martin, Garry Trigg, Sam Knox, John Coddington, Jan Martin and we welcomed a new starter today - Trevor Harrison.

The tree gang of Duncan Dyer, Geoff Bridge, Sam Knox and Trevor Harrison took the chain saws to the large sections of timber that needed to be cut down to a size that Sam & Trevor could feed through the wood splitting machine.  It was a job well done & increases our firewood supply.

Rob Benson & Garry Trigg took care of timber and rubbish pick up around the course & assisted me with the planting of some Strelitzia plants.

Nigel Asken continued his attack on the crabgrasses on the 15th & worked right through morning tea to get the job done.

Peter Martin & John Coddington took care of some repair work inside the clubhouse including fixing the step strips, door hinges etc.

I was working on my own today & got the Lavender Way garden back under control after we lost a lot of plants due to wet weather. (Unfortunately there is more bed weather due which will not help to get the plants established.)  After that I worked around the wedding garden area & the practice nets cleaning up that corner of the course.  I was able to use the wood shavings and saw dust accumulated by the tree gang to use as very good mulch on the wedding garden.

We have received some excellent donations this week which will kick us along.

Club Director Col Adams has donated a blower to F-Troop so that we can better manage the state of the area underneath the clubhouse.  That was a very generous donation and much appreciated.  Thanks Col!

Another very generous donation was received from the RSL Social players - $200 towards F-Troop projects.  Thank you RSL Club social members.  I can now order some more plants for the new garden.

Don Nicholls donated an advanced Agavi plant today which was very much appreciated as they are ideal plants for the golf course.  Thank you Don!

Bruce Binns donated a good supply of indoor/outdoor plants which will be very useful to us - giving us a good choice of plants to swap over inside the club when the existing plants get oxygen/light deprived which happens with indoor plants.  Bruce went to a lot of trouble to deliver the plants over to us in good order & that was very much appreciated.  Thanks Bruce!

Annette Dunk has donated a big supply of succulent plants which are waiting for us to find enough time to plants out.  Thanks Annette!

Lea Southon has donated a large supply of old carpet for us to use as weed matting.  We have not had sufficient manpower on hand to collect the carpet yet but it will be well used when we do get it.  Thanks Lea!


THANK YOU TO EVERYONE FOR BEING SO SUPPORTIVE TO F-TROOP.   All donations are put to good use and make life easier for the F-Troopers.

Morning tea this morning was fruit pastries and mini muffins which was appreciated by the troopers as it was very hot work around the course today.  Thanks Chef John!


After morning tea we had an inspection of the stone wall at the Men's 10th tee which has been weakened by heavy rain.  That is another task for F-Troop to consider rather than waiting for the wall to collapse from water pressure.

In all today we did some good work with a very small crew.

YES! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!