Feeding the monster

The speed with which this machine separated everything into three different grades meant that Ian was kept busy in satisfying its appetite! If it ever had a bit of indigestion the excellent support staff of Geddes were there in no time and it was soon back eating the earth again. The result could not have been better with approximately 95% proving good enough to go on the greens.



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Arrival of the Dinosaur

The next task of finding out how much of the soil, would be fit for use on the greens, required Ian's colleagues at Geddes to lend us something a bit bigger than anticipated! The 1400 Chieftain Power Screen arrived from its quarry in Haddington and was successfully manoeuvred off its transporter and through the west gate into position in "golf field" in less than ten minutes, all under its own steam with the help of a hand held remote!



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Preparing for flood

On Saturday the 29th of April, Dave Stewart and his team finished laying the drainage systems for all nine greens as well as related soakaways. All except the 3rd will take the excess water straight to the "cundie".
Our picture shows work in progress on the 7th green.




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Preparing for drought

Reference was made earlier to Bar Systems who are our irrigation specialists. Their work continues over a period of many weeks and as they are enjoying themselves so much getting down and dirty we thought it was only fair to put faces to the names and so here we see boss Tony Barnett (on the left) doing his best not to get in the way of main man Mike!

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