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The 36-hole Fiddlesticks Country Club in Fort Myers, Florida, grows hybrid Bermudagrass on its golf courses. The surrounding HOA homeowners’ lawns are St. Augustine. A decorative pine straw buffer zone separates the two turf types. To keep the buffer zone grasses from creeping into each other and free from weeds, glyphosate and pre-emergent herbicides are applied as needed using a prototype “spray wheel” designed and built by Joseph McKenney, PGA, superintendent of the Long Mean Course. A pressure washer wand, with a ¼-inch diameter pipe and original spray nozzle is attached with a rubber hose and clamps to a recycled aluminum rake handle. It also features 12.6-inch-diameter plexiglass wheels, recycled from a golf cart windshield, where holes were drilled to fit a threaded rod into bearings, washers and nuts so the wheels are adjustable for the desired spray width. The current spray nozzle operates at 20 PSI, while a traditional flat fan spray nozzle is planned. All the parts and materials were recycled, and it took less than three hours to build. Gabe Gallo is the director of agronomy and Kipp Schulties is the renovation architect.
Rolling Tool Racks
While a new maintenance building was built recently at Muirfield Village Golf Club in Dublin, Ohio, rolling tool racks were designed by Tom Wait of TRW Global after thinktank input from Chad A. Mark, director of grounds operations, and Eric Perkins, irrigation and infrastructure assistant. There are three lockable power tool racks, one for string line trimmers and two for backpack blowers, as well as three hand-tool racks, one used exclusively by the horticulturist. Each tool rack locker measures approximately 2 feet by 8 feet by 8 feet. The tool racks are placed like library shelves next to each other to condense their storage space. They have fixed caster wheels, making them totally portable to move them next to the turf vehicles storage for easy loading and unloading. American Storage provided the hand tool hangers, and a local custom fabricator made the backpack hangers. Murray Material Handling supplied and installed the tool racks; it took about three to four hours total to assemble all six of them. The total cost was part of the new maintenance building costs. Jack Nicklaus and Chris Cochran are the architects.
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