A view from the rough

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It’s time to run R2-D2 again (that’s why the guys call the air injection machine). Watch closely and you can see the ground around the probes heave a lil and then set right back down. You’ll see in the next pic what happened the first time we did the hand deep injection, I was a little freaked out to tell you the truth.

The reason why the grass lays back down nicely is we have done a pretty good job with the air injection pogo stick thing to crack the hard layer down deep. So when the machine pops off and send the air burst out the air goes mostly laterally.
This was the putting green after we did the pogo stick injection the first time. What we deduced was the soil was so compacted down deep that when the air injector popped off it didn’t shatter the soil laterally, I shot the soil back up the prob hole vertically.

Fortunately, after doing the deep, 18 inch hand prob injection a few times this doesn’t happen anymore making me think we’ve done a decent job at beginning to work on the deep hard pan.
Here’s why we can now use the machine, I had it modified slightly. The longest factory probe for the air machine is 11 inches. A normal 11 inch probe setup would be way up inside the foot pad and you wouldn’t be able to see it. We now know 11 inches wasn’t deep enough, and I need to be able to get down 15 inches where the severe layering in the greens is located. I had the Equipment Manager fabricate some custom 15 inch probes so when we use the machine it penetrates down to the hard pan layer. Thankfully we can now use the full capabilities of the machine… which is much faster and doesn’t wear out 2 guys by 9:30 am.
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