The warm winter provided us many opportunities to remove trees on the golf course. All the trees we removed were already dead. The wood was cut into fireplace length, split, and stacked for future use in the clubhouse or to be sold. This spring we will be renting a stump grinder and taking out all of the stumps that accumulated over the year. We will then fill the holes with topsoil and add seed or sod. In the next month, we plan on having the left side of the par 3 eighth hole trimmed back to open up the left side of the tee. Look for a future post on our progress. We have hopes to begin replacing trees sometime in future.
That's Nick the assistant taking down a dead oak behind #18 blue tee.
Behind #18 blue tee after the tree was removed.
This oak on the left side of #9 was struck by lightning. Removing it really opened up the right side for a shot into the green.
This oak on the left side of #12 was dead for a couple years. It never effected play because it was in the tall grass, but it is nice to remove the eye sore.
This was the largest tree we had to remove between #5 and #9.
Talk about a lot of chainsaw work! The largest logs of this tree could barely be lifted with the tractor.
There is still a lot of wood to be split. The winter of 2011-2012 did not provide us many opportunities to burn wood in the fireplace in the clubhouse. We were able to purchase another set of safety chaps and a safety helmet with our profits from selling seasoned firewood. We still have more to sell!
