Winter Work. . .

Just a few more pictures of what the maintenance staff does in the Winter. Here is the process we use to cut  dead trees down. I would estimate that there are between 10-15 dead trees on each hole. That amounts to 180-270 dead trees on the whole golf course! The oak trees have been hit hard by the gall disease.

First we cut the tree down with a chainsaw. This is Rufino cutting the stump down on #12:

Then we will pick the logs up with the backhoe and then split them and use them for firewood. This is Steve Glynn performing that action:

Instead of taking the branches off site, we use the chipper and chip the braches into the back of the dump truck, and then dump the wood chips off site:

Finally we use the stump grinder to grind the stumps down.Here is Aurelio grinding a stump on #16: