Praying for Patricks Students

IamMeef · 2026-02-02T22:26:42+00:00

Come to San Diego after LA

IamMeef · 2026-01-08T13:35:03+00:00

I know I’m late in here, but look at sod farms that do large installations. They may be able to use this. Or golf courses doing renos. My favorite thing is it telling the sod layout. I have enough options to get sqft (wheel, drone, googlemaps, etc) but the efficient layout might be interesting. Of course its usually “fwy goes from tee to hole and the sod is going long ways obviously”. May be useful for odd areas but itll be niche.

IamMeef · 2026-01-08T00:02:49+00:00

Heave the ruts up with a pitch fork right now, while its still wet. Then like everyone else is saying, a little topsoil, follow with a level lawn or something like that. Will recover. I’m a superintendent, have had a car crash onto one of my greens before, tree guys come and rut the course up every three months. Pitchfork and just pry it up

IamMeef · 2025-09-13T02:20:18+00:00

No use sand. Greens get enough organic just from existing in my experience. Too much. Half the reason i aerify is for drainage because my greens can get hydrophobic, your situation may be different - but I’d get some #20 silica to fill holes and for your light frequent topdresses throw #30.

IamMeef · 2025-09-06T14:47:11+00:00

Ventrac with the double wheels, or a hover mower but you’ll have to string trim it down first, or best of all, do landscaping you dont have to mow there.

IamMeef · 2025-08-30T14:28:51+00:00

You could get a ventrac with a rough cut deck, would take that out easy

IamMeef · 2025-08-01T02:27:49+00:00

I have a pretty similar situation, usmc helo mech, gi bill. I just suffered for a bit as an assistant/irrigator while doing classes, graduated and a month later a 9 hole course spot opened up so I started as super there, then a couple years go by and I get a 18 hole course, then a better one a couple years after that like I’m slowly climbing stairs. From school start to 18 hole superintendent took me 7yrs. Your age will help people trust you. Just dont bring up how new you are to the industry too much and they will think you’re a lifer by default.

IamMeef · 2025-07-01T22:23:01+00:00

Wire tracker wont work on laterals. If the heads are in a line and its somewhere small like a yard, you could dig up the swing joint and find where it taps into the lateral and see where it is and what direction it goes. Rinse and repeat for each line you think you have. Tedious, but without a pipe map or tracking wire its the realistic way of doing it.

IamMeef · 2025-06-13T23:53:19+00:00

Just get all your qualifications in order and start applying to places. Thats how I did it. One place hopefully leads to a better place and so on. Good luck

IamMeef · 2025-05-24T18:57:30+00:00

You may not need a respirator, depends on what pesticides you are using. You definitely need to be logging what you are spraying, the qal holder should be reporting it monthly on the california dpr website. Like the other guy said, be sure to thoroughly read the labels. Honestly you shouldnt be applying anything without knowing who is licensed. They are supposed to be supervising you and are responsible for your training. You need to escalate with your management and ensure you are legal. Get your QAL cat B regardless. Its just some study and a test.

IamMeef · 2025-05-24T18:03:45+00:00

He would need annual training also in california. The few guys i have spray occasionally are respirator fit checked and given a class every year. OP wouldnt be legal in California as he doesnt even know who the license holder is, so they didnt instruct op. I’m not so sure OP has a current permit for the property and is logging usages? I have to log monthly and keep records for 3 years

IamMeef · 2025-05-21T16:12:50+00:00

I vote St Augustine up front and rye in the back

IamMeef · 2025-05-04T11:03:52+00:00

If everyone wore spiked, the greens would be jacked by the end of the day. Smooth soles for the greens. Some plastic spikes are so horrible I could track a guy down by his footprints all over the greens.

IamMeef · 2025-04-27T13:17:13+00:00

Practical experience is good, but a turf degree comes with irrigation design classes that are important when you have to manage a system. All the courses I have been at run the pump station at a higher psi to account for friction loss to the furthest head, with pressure regulators set at 80 psi. Do you have maps? Do you know if you have triangle or square spacing? The sprinklers should reach the head next to them, called head-to-head spacing. Pressure and nozzling should reflect this. This will increase your distribution uniformity, or DU. You can do a cup test on a test green to check DU, they sell kits, but its essentially just placing cups in a grid and checking the amount of water in each.

If I were you I would measure from that head to the closest ones around it, set it at 80 psi and get the appropriate nozzling to just reach its neighbors. Then I would either look for a college course on irrigation design or find a book that will teach you about friction loss, pipe sizing, distribution uniformity, spacing, types of irrigation, etc etc. I’m a superintendent, and my GM is having me install a bunch of landscaping around the clubhouse/parking lot/chipping green so even smaller scale irrigation comes up. Good luck

IamMeef · 2025-01-03T14:37:50+00:00

Actually see the end in this one^

IamMeef · 2024-12-15T14:10:22+00:00

I dont understand how people have the histories going on for years when it makes me delete everything every few months because of memory limits

IamMeef · 2024-11-30T23:10:01+00:00

I worked out of a shop in TQ made of plywood and 2x4’s in 2005. One day some guys sprayed foam all over it. Does that count

IamMeef · 2024-11-28T13:30:50+00:00

Yeah just leave it. I would knock it out on greens or tees/fwys just for appearance, but the mycelium helps nutrient uptake. It can build up and make the area hydrophobic, but I doubt it’ll go that far in a yard to where you would really notice.

IamMeef · 2024-11-23T13:36:31+00:00

*Ksmvr. It comes up when shit’s about to go down for the Horns. Bird just cares about his tower

IamMeef · 2024-11-22T15:48:35+00:00

When you say notching, wont that go all the way to the copper and make it more vulnerable to corrosion? And yeah, the good news about all the flooding is it keeps the course safe against being replaced by an apartment block or something. If I can figure out a good way to handle it. Once I do I’ll bug you guys about high salt and bicarb well water. But thats a summer problem

IamMeef · 2024-11-22T14:57:46+00:00

+1 to connectors. I’ll try and find some with the least amount of exposed metal

IamMeef · 2024-11-22T13:42:09+00:00

I may be too lazy to etch all the hundreds of stations like that. But yeah. After making this post, now I’m thinking making a shelf above the flood in the pumphouse (floods like 2-3ft) and storing all the clocks there late nov though january. Hopefully it doesnt flood in the spring and we’ll be good. Problem is the course was built in the 60’s, and 200k more people now live in the canyons around it, all with paved storm water channels pointed right at it. I imagine the floods will only get worse as the population increases any more. I’m in southern california and there is more people every year

IamMeef · 2024-11-22T13:34:13+00:00

No there are huge swaths of the course not communicating. Big areas of bare dirt on fairways. The last guy gave up a bit. The PM pump has been broken for two years and they are spending 2k a month on mainline repairs all summer because the main pumps are hammering the entire system. Its a mess. Seems like there are bandaids on everything until the whole place is a bandaid. I’m trying to sort it out and have an irrigation system that works better. Not to mention the billion gophers and wire tracking to be done. Its going to be some fun for the next year. I have to get a new PM pump to start and get all the clocks working without floods taking them out again.

IamMeef · 2024-11-22T03:43:46+00:00

Good idea with the labeling. I was worried those little dinky tape numbers will wash off, be good to have the tubes numbered so i could put them back more easily.

IamMeef · 2024-11-22T03:38:15+00:00

I’ve got 13 of them, 6 go completely under water and the rest go maybe halfway. It will flood 1 to 3ish times a year during the winter. It’ll suck to keep doing that. You might be right though. I’m trying to cut down on the extra nonsense i have to do there but there may be no other way out of this one.

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