Pictures from an athletic field contractor

[BackRoad]

Realize your tractors and implements are running turf tires, but with all the rain that LA receives (lived near Winnsboro for 5 years) do you ever leave tire tracks on soft infields?

How do you mitigate them?

 

[number two]

Very interesting business you're in.
Lot's of equipment at risk.
And you do OK at it.
Another hard-working American.
Thanks for your posts.
Good Luck!

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Realize your tractors and implements are running turf tires, but with all the rain that LA receives (lived near Winnsboro for 5 years) do you ever leave tire tracks on soft infields?

How do you mitigate them?

We won't get on the field if it is too wet. But, in the spring, summer and fall, we usually need only a day or 2 after a rain, and it will be dry enough to work.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

The day started out good. Finished laser grading the infield around 2:30. The trip home was not so good.
Yes, that is one of my trucks in the mud. No damage to any of my stuff, but $1350 for a tow truck.

 

[EddieWalker]

Expensive tow!!!

Did they just pull it all out for that amount, or did they tow it into town for repairs?

How did it happen?

 

[Lineman North Florida]

The day started out good. Finished laser grading the infield around 2:30. The trip home was not so good.
Yes, that is one of my trucks in the mud. No damage to any of my stuff, but $1350 for a tow truck.

Thank the Lord that you, your employees and none of your equipment was damaged. Did someone do something stupid on the interstate ahead of you all and cause a chain reaction?

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Expensive tow!!!

Did they just pull it all out for that amount, or did they tow it into town for repairs?

How did it happen?

They sent 2 tow trucks to pull him out. They just got him back on the road and he was able to drive away without any damage.

It was either hit the 18 wheeler in front of him or take the ditch. There were several accidents in front of him. There were at least 10 vehicles that either got damaged, or took the ditch. It all started during a severe thunderstorm.

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Thank the Lord that you, your employees and none of your equipment was damaged. Did someone do something stupid on the interstate ahead of you all and cause a chain reaction?

Yes, I'm sure it was something stupid. It looks like someone slowed down because of heavy rain, and the vehicles behind them did now slow down enough. I don't know who was the stupid one. The one that slowed too much, or the one behind them that didn't slow enough.

And, although I'm not happy with a $1350 wrecker bill, I am happy that it was not a lot worse, which it could have easily been...

 

[Complete Turf Care]

Been working on installing a new irrigation system and forgetting to take pictures. They destroyed the old system when they started construction on the fake grass.

We had to change one of the tracks on the mini excavator. Cost about $750 and it took about 20 minutes.

 

[EddieWalker]

How big of a supply line are you sprinkler systems running off of? What PSI is normal for something like this?