Shaving Cream

Jason - why were you walking out of Walmart with 12 cans of shaving cream, why is there shaving cream on our fairways?

Not your typical blog post, but a couple questions I have answered this week during fairway aerification.  The answer is, we use shaving cream to mark the irrigation heads.

Here you see a row of heads each with a white shaving cream dot.

We use shaving cream to mark all the irrigation heads during aerification instead of your usual ground flags.  The heads need to be marked so the operator can raise up and over the heads, and with flags they could get caught in the aerifier, they take extra time to go back and remove, and they get hooked as the drag matt goes by.  With shaving cream, we just put a clump on the heads, and then we can drive, drag, or blow right over it and it disappears in about 3-4 hours, the perfect time span to aerify a fairway.  It  is safe on the turf and makes our irrigation process more efficient.