Pumphouse, Carts, and More

It has been quite a busy week here so far. On Monday I had the guys here from Municiple Utilities in Craven. They were here to remove my 60hp vertical turbine pump that is in the pumphouse right next to the lake. This pump functions as a lift to fill my irrigation holding pond by hole 12 from the lake whenever my water levels are becoming low. They were removing the pump and motor to take back with them to do a complete overhaul on the pump. This pump has been operating for over 20 years now with no major maintenance ever done to it, so it is beginning to show all its use. The output I was getting from it was at best 3/4 of what it's supposed to be. So with them being here and getting it already, they should be able to have it back and operating perfectly for me before the start of the golf season. Here is a picture of them operating their crane to lift the pump out of the pumphouse.

Yesterday we had two guys from Oakcreek, which is one of our equipment suppliers here. They were here installing the canopies on the 26 new Yamaha golf carts that we had delivered two weeks ago. We have a total of 35 new carts for this year as the other 9 carts will be delivered in the next couple weeks. Our new carts are Yamaha's new fuel injected carts. I was informed yesterday that we were actually the first course in western Canada to order these carts. The advantages to the fuel injected carts include a much better and easier cold startup in the early mornings, they are cleaner burning with less exhaust emissions, a smoother acceleration, and they are said to be up to 34% more fuel efficient than Yamaha's next leading competitor. Here is a picture of them installing the canopies.

I have also began some of our course accessory work this week. We do not have a lot this year as we are getting all new flag sticks and cups for this upcoming season and I had all of our garbage containers done last fall. We still do have all four sets of tee markers and all 24 ballwashers to be painted though. So hopefully I can have all of those done by the middle of next week. Here is a picture of the yellow tee markers all painted.