Some new winter projects

With the early start to winter, and with the length of it, along with an additional full-timer, we were able to get our regular winter projects of ballwasher repairs and painting, yardage posts, tee markers, and other golf accessories done fairly early.  So what did we move onto to keep us busy?

Entrance signs:  We have an entrance sign, that upon closer inspection, had faded some after over 15 years.  I'm not sure when it was installed, but I've been here 15+ years.

We removed the sign and refurbished it.  The first picture on the left is after it received a good pressure washing.  and the next showed the process of painting the background.

                              

                               















These pictures show the sign after it had been painted.

Here is the sign reinstalled along with a new block bed that replaced the rotted out railroad tie bed that had surrounded the sign before.  We had it reinstalled just in time for this year's Masters Tournament.  This block bed was done by one of our Park's Operations crew.  They will be adding dirt and plant material in the near future.

 

The Horton Smith sign stood in front of our flagpole, after we had removed that sign, we found the standard park issue welcome sign, that was acting as the frame.  For some reason, I felt that sign had some historic significance and I wanted to display it in some manner. (also I'm cheap and hated just throwing it out),  We as a crew, decided to take ownership of it, we refinished it, and found a spot to display on our gate at our maintenance facility. The old rotting railroad tie bed can be seen in the picture on the left.    

We made note of some rotting railroad ties at the first tee, and one of our staff remembered some retaining wall block at another facility, that was not being used.  We gladly confiscated the block and the crew created a new retaining wall on our first tee.  This is probably one of our bigger projects we had taken on since I had been here.

 

We removed the rotten railroad ties, and a bed that was the bricks were used as a boarder.  Carts were always running into them and knocking them loose.  We removed that bed and the need for the brick border.  We installed the retaining wall block and finished the project with most cost just being labor.  We did have to buy 15 blocks to finish up the project, so the cost of materials was $63.00  The guys took ownership of all these projects.  I just suggested that we wanted to fix up what was there, and the guys took it from there.

I'm pretty proud of these guys, they always take pride and ownership of the many projects we do.

As always,

Thanks for reading!

Mel