Another year of improvements is here
After a quick break the irrigation company was back at it and finished up the mainline loop this week.
The two mile loop of 8 and 6 inch HDPE pipe ended up back here left of 10 black tee where it connected to our feed pipe from the pumphouse.
With the mainline complete the real fun begins with running all the 2" lateral pipes to the sprinkler heads. The 2" pipe comes in a 1,000 foot roll of pipe which eliminates any and all connections besides where the heads tap in.
Each lateral pipe is measured and then hooked to the vibratory plow and pulled through the soil as opposed to trenching like the larger mainline pipe. The wire (it is really two wires in one casing) is pulled right along with the pipe. Luckily we ended up with a brand new plow this year so the heaving is a little less than last year.
The crew will work 18 backwards to 10 and take about a week per hole depending on the weather. It is a giant mess! 18 is one of the more complicated install holes with 7 of the 20 bunkers on the back nine, a curved fairway and two sets of tees. If we can keep the heavy rain away we will be in pretty good shape.
Over on Manakin we went back to work on the bunkers on #2. All four remaining bunkers were dug out and only one is left for new drainage to be installed. We have concrete scheduled for Thursday next week and then we'll start filling these bunkers up.
Bridge work has started on the Sabot front nine. This week we pulled up both bridges on 5 down to the steel I beams.
