The irrigation project / addition to holes 6 and 7 is moving along very nicely. After a rocky start to the first half of the trenching, we got all the trenches cleaned out, the pipe, swingjoints, and heads installed, and all the wires ran.
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| Clean trench - ready for pipe |
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| Rolling out wires |
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| Keeping all the wires organized |
We have completed the back fill and sodding of the first part.
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| Backfilling with a tractor bucket |
Trenches back filled and ready for compaction
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| Compacting |
Compacted trench
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| Sod going down, rolled up for 1.5 weeks and started to yellow a little |
After the first phase was almost completed we went and opened up the second half.
The sod is rolled up, trenching is complete, and now it is time to start all the installation of pipe.
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Sod being rolled up
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| Trenching |
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| Phase 2 - 8,000 ft of pipe, 10,000 ft of wire, about 50 more heads |
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| A clean trench |
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| Overview of the second half |
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| The second part with pipe installation in progress |
We also have base set for the new satellite that will control all of the new additions.
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| Base is ready wires and new satellite |
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| Old pipe that is cut through by the trencher needs to be repaired |
The old wires are being cut through and ignored because we will be re-wiring all heads on the two holes. It is amazing that the wires are only about 2-3 inches deep. This kept us from performing all the proper cultural practices that the turfgrass needs like aerification.
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| Shallow wires |
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| Equipment being used |
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