Good work, guys. I'm not sure why, but I really enjoyed this one. Watching Steve re-punching the holes with a screwdriver was too funny. The man loves his green.
3r5 Its funny, it’s almost as if you think I’ve never lifted a brick, or put a tree through a wood chipper, dig a basement, or do 45000 sq. ft of seeding 🤔
Invest in a top dresser & drag mat if you can, look for an old turfco or olathe. You can make a drag matt out of carpet and some weight on it. It will make your life alot easier, great work.on your part ! Most golfers don't know the importance of the task or appreciate the effort of the maintenance staff to accomplish this. I worked on courses for 24 years. Well done.
backpack blower for cores out of machines way, snowshovels for clearing...coconut mat behind a golf cart to work in sand, mock up a drag basket to catch cores, you can also mow them off if its dry...these are minimal tools, put every dime you make into greens equipment, top dressers, sprayers, irrigation and mowers...its what people want the most...i had tons of fun doing it, but i learned the hard way...
I’ve walked a million miles with a Ryan greensaire 2!!! They are old ass technology but they get the job done perfectly.. The drive chain breaks like it’s a special feature to do so! One side controls the up and down the other side controls the in and out motion, and one or the other would break a chain every time I used it. Like I said perfect holes every time.. good work guys!
Jordan Metcalfe yes there is a better way to clean up by using a core sweeper and a drag behind broom it’s much faster but for filling the holes up with sand the best way is with a push broom and it sucks!!
Brilliant video! I love the variety of videos you make Randy, some make me cry with laughing and others, like this one, really appeal to my OCD side. Looks like you did a great job and if I had the money, and yard space, I'd be making a start on my own green. Inspired!
I've always dreamt of having a backyard green until I watched this video. Wow that's a ton of work to keep the green healthy. I have a new respect for what the golf courses go through to maintain their greens.
Who ever thought that watching a dad and son aerate their homemade golf course (very nice homemade golf course) would be so enjoyable?? Fry em up boys!
I used to work at a golf course and aeration days were the worst. For all 18 holes and tees, with decent equipment, and about 5 grounds keepers it still took us over a week to get it all done. The one tip I do have is when brooming in the sand, take two broom heads and a few 2x4 screw them together about a foot apart and put a concrete block on the back and tow it behind a golf cart. That’s what we always did and it made the sanding aspect not that bad.
Invest in some wide snow shovels, it will make clearing cores much easier. Also you could buy or easily make a drag mat which save a lot of time working in the sand.
At least it wasn't too hot and humid in the Great Lakes this weekend😏. 2:50 Well there's your problem right there. The thingy isn't engaging the what'sit. Think you need a T-3/8 inch socket or something. Nevermind I see ya got it. Great stuff.
Randy take a used driving mat and flip it upside down and tow it behind a cart to work that sand in. It will save you a bit of labor. There will still be some clean up but it will save you a bunch. Hats off, looks great.
I've got about 2,000 square feet on bentgrass putting green in my backyard. Its beautiful kept at .185". I solid tine and scarify in the Spring, and core in the fall. I've found given I don't have much pressure, core aerating twice a season was overly aggressive. The solid tine does a good job really.
I run an elite course, first order: Broom assembly. Make a flat aluminum cage with smaller cages to attach by hinge on both sides. Fasten as many broom ends as you can on underside of cages. Weigh the cages down with heavy rubber mats to prevent skipping while you drag with a cart. You can also just make a core catcher rig on your puncher, then empty off green each pass. You don’t necessarily need better equipment but should.
I love nice greens and I love green-keepers. What I don't love is booking a round of golf for decent money, turning up for it and finding out after Ive paid full price that the greens have been tined and sanded. It's like turning up at a restaurant and them saying "Sorry our premium beef is not being served, so we've got you some corned beef instead, and it's the same price."
Yall did a better job than my home course i play at.There was so much sand left on the greens , i thought i was at the beach.I raked some of the sand off the top of the green and it was turning brown the day after.
25+ yrs experience. Use snow shovels to push cores, not brooms (much easier). Use cocoa mat (door mat) upside down with ropes attached to drag in sand. Use quality topdress sand (sieved to prevent compaction) not play sand or bunker sand. All that brooming is damaging leaf surface.
Thanks Tony! Plastic scoop shovels seemed to work great for the cores and we definitely used quality top-dress sand. We were hoping someone would offer a remedy for the push brooms, seemed really inefficient. We appreciate it!
We did the same as Tony G drag the sand in with a golf cart and mat tied behind it snow shovels we used until we got a core harvester. Also could get a attachment to create a wind row easier to scoop the plugs that way.
Can someone point me to a link where I can buy top-dress sand. Just constructed a small bentgrass green (just over 1200 sq ft.) and its to the point where I need to top-dress it. Thanks!
i worked at a country club that did this to 18 championship holes ( greens, approaches and tees) and a smaller 9 hole course (greens, approaches and tees ) twice a year, it would take a crew of over 30 people 1 week of 14+hour days to get it all done, i dont how to put it all into perspective but what you did here we would have done in about half hour. The pro-core machines we used had these big bins on the back to catch all those plugs, when you get to the end to turn around just lift the bin real high with about 4 guys and it dumps. Then we leaf blow and dump sand as well.
Seems like you could rig up a tarp or something to drag behind the aerator to catch the plugs.... But that's definitely arm chair quarter backing from me! Looks like rewarding work though.
@@FriedEggsGolf If you want to know why there are so many... For one, its an ancient Ryan. Everything they built is like that and its from a time where they didn't really have to care about maintenance after the sale. But moreso, its because the thing has a ton of vibration and minimal dampening. Adding more screws so panels don't fall off in the middle of operation is the cheapest solution to that problem.
Kind of new to all this I I apologize if this is a stupid question, but if you’re aerating to allow water and air a way to reach the soil then wouldn’t brushing all that sand in defeat the purpose of aeration?
I used that same machine to do an 18 hole golf course... by myself. Cleaned it off and sanded it by myself. When i was finished the management of the golf course told me..... Punching holes in a golf green made it look ugly, then you put sand back in it. Needless to say the course closed down a few years later.
Press Master 1 well you will understand and appreciate this story. When I started the job I asked where the fairway mowers were. They said IT is over there. I see the tractor, where is the mower? They said it’s behind the tractor.... it was a bush hog, to cut fairways. They started complaining about how high the fairways were. I told them a bush hog cannot go lower than 2.5 inches. Anyway, after they kept on I asked the board members to come to practice range, and I set it on the setting to cut the grass at 1 inch, liked they demanded. I said if I do this I’ll mow it 100yds and you take the credit. Should have seen their smug looks. I cut/drug that bottomed out frame 100yds before I stopped, you can appreciate what the frame did to the turf. They didn’t demand much from me after that. They decided maybe discussions were better than demands. I eventually rigged up a 5 foot wide finishing mower. The amount of diesel we wasted pulling a 5 foot wide fairway mower would have paid for a new mower in one season. I miss that crazy work, those greens were beautiful after two seasons. They had been neglected for about 10 years, so the improvements were exciting the first year.
Sammy 5150Eddie I do understand completely, when I took over as the superintendent they had an 1985 John deer tractor and a 7 deck pull behind finish mower, one John deer walk behind greens mower and a stihl backpack sprayer sg120 that I was supposed to spray the greens with!!! I too worked for a board of directors who new nothing about golf course maintenance, everything was a struggle for the first season. I have to say that all the hard work and fixing up piece of shit equipment made me a better man. I rebuilt a toro 1200 sprayer got on the Floratine program along with some Harrels herbicides and saved the bent grass. Dealing with a board is very difficult most of the time they are wealthy arrogant and have never gotten their hands dirty
Press Master 1 my “Board” all lived in small houses or small trailers, and got the big heads because they had “power”. Our signature hole is a par 115 yd par3 over a lake. The tee box is right outside the pro shop. When I got there I told them that tee box was going to look terrible the first season because I had to completely wipe out most of it. A guy said why would you redo it, we just redid it last year. We brought in x number of pallets and personally laid the sod. I said, you should resign as the president of the board today, because centipede grass is considered a weed on a golf course. People were laughing outloud. I ended up really liking the guy, he was just that clueless when it came to growing legal grass.
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Good work, guys. I'm not sure why, but I really enjoyed this one. Watching Steve re-punching the holes with a screwdriver was too funny. The man loves his green.
Everyone hug your grounds crew at your local course... That is hard work with our without good equipment. Well done Randy, Scuba Steve, and helpers!
Set up a tip jar for the grounds crew at your local course !
Awh poor ground crew, let them work with landscapers for a month and they will know what real hard work is
3r5 AGREED-rolling out straw net is hard work!
Caleb Alt ah yes, thats all they do, forget about lifting 100kg tiles and tree logs
3r5 Its funny, it’s almost as if you think I’ve never lifted a brick, or put a tree through a wood chipper, dig a basement, or do 45000 sq. ft of seeding 🤔
A video like this really makes you appreciate what they have to do to keep a whole course up to scratch.
This was a great, informative video, thanks Randy. I'm one of a lot of people who play golf and don't appreciate what our greenkeepers do fully.
The real heroes of the links!
Scuba Steve is wearing his Sunday Tiger outfit...he means Business! I loved the closeup of the equipment working...👍🏻
Invest in a top dresser & drag mat if you can, look for an old turfco or olathe. You can make a drag matt out of carpet and some weight on it. It will make your life alot easier, great work.on your part ! Most golfers don't know the importance of the task or appreciate the effort of the maintenance staff to accomplish this. I worked on courses for 24 years. Well done.
backpack blower for cores out of machines way, snowshovels for clearing...coconut mat behind a golf cart to work in sand, mock up a drag basket to catch cores, you can also mow them off if its dry...these are minimal tools, put every dime you make into greens equipment, top dressers, sprayers, irrigation and mowers...its what people want the most...i had tons of fun doing it, but i learned the hard way...
@Xtreme Performance nothing a simple touch up and adjustment cant fix...or do you not "reccomend" that either....
@@thestcroixkid lmao mow the cores??? dull the shit out of your reels more like it...
@@TheHuckHD before mow off, you open your knives up to about an 1/8 gap...it does nothing to the reels or knives...
Great work again Randy and Scuba!! All the work will be worth it year in year out. That aerator was mesmerising in slo-mo!!
I wish I could have gone SLOWER! #SloMoGuys
Love Scuba Steves OCD re his green 😆👍🏻 looks awesome, great teamwork 👊
I’m 16 and my first job was working maintenance at a golf course this summer, so far this year we’ve aerated 3 or 4 times it’s hard work
Logi Bear AGREED!
I’ve walked a million miles with a Ryan greensaire 2!!! They are old ass technology but they get the job done perfectly.. The drive chain breaks like it’s a special feature to do so! One side controls the up and down the other side controls the in and out motion, and one or the other would break a chain every time I used it. Like I said perfect holes every time.. good work guys!
Is there a better way to sweep up afterwards or do you literally spend the next 6 months broomsticking the cores off lol
Jordan Metcalfe yes there is a better way to clean up by using a core sweeper and a drag behind broom it’s much faster but for filling the holes up with sand the best way is with a push broom and it sucks!!
Brilliant video! I love the variety of videos you make Randy, some make me cry with laughing and others, like this one, really appeal to my OCD side. Looks like you did a great job and if I had the money, and yard space, I'd be making a start on my own green. Inspired!
I've always dreamt of having a backyard green until I watched this video. Wow that's a ton of work to keep the green healthy. I have a new respect for what the golf courses go through to maintain their greens.
Amen to that
Great video! I always knew how it was done, but this was the first time I’ve seen it. Thanks for posting
bama79 👍
love how the description is so accurate
Editing was incredible. Nice work
Who ever thought that watching a dad and son aerate their homemade golf course (very nice homemade golf course) would be so enjoyable?? Fry em up boys!
It's fun watching you guys work 😂
Didn't know a video about coring greens could be this good! Production quality is seriously impressive. Bravo!
I love how you guys have a roller, aerator, etc aaaaaaand a battery blower hahahahahahaa love it
1:54 - love how your dad responded - my friends do the same and just forget I'm recording - first time here - your videos are well done - subbed
Nick Ferry Thanks, Nick 🙏
I love it how this is a family thing!
Though work and a great video! Nice to watch. You are not an average golfer for sure! ;)
🙏
Loving the dramatic intro with scuba Steve. Great music!
I used to work at a golf course and aeration days were the worst. For all 18 holes and tees, with decent equipment, and about 5 grounds keepers it still took us over a week to get it all done. The one tip I do have is when brooming in the sand, take two broom heads and a few 2x4 screw them together about a foot apart and put a concrete block on the back and tow it behind a golf cart. That’s what we always did and it made the sanding aspect not that bad.
Invest in some wide snow shovels, it will make clearing cores much easier. Also you could buy or easily make a drag mat which save a lot of time working in the sand.
At least it wasn't too hot and humid in the Great Lakes this weekend😏. 2:50 Well there's your problem right there. The thingy isn't engaging the what'sit. Think you need a T-3/8 inch socket or something. Nevermind I see ya got it. Great stuff.
I'm no mechanic, but I do love banging metal with other bits of metal!
I'm buggered boys and girls from watching that hard work Phew. Time for a lay down🏌😴👍👍👍
Late to the comments but as a greenkeeper myself I loved this video. Great to see the passion, hope you're all well 🏴
Only you could make aerating a green so gangster bro! Lmfao. Those slo-mo drive by shots are gold!
Just feel part of the family as ever Randy. Great vid and love you guys. Come to Sussex, stay, play some golf. Offer is there. Regards Sean.
Appreciate it Sean...brother.
Randy take a used driving mat and flip it upside down and tow it behind a cart to work that sand in. It will save you a bit of labor. There will still be some clean up but it will save you a bunch. Hats off, looks great.
I love working outside it looks like a lot of fun. Tiring but a lot of fun.
That was strangely satisfying.
Like breaking florescent bulbs in a dumpster satisfying...
That slow mow made my brain over heat it was so cool to watch
This is awesome Im so glad y’all decided to buy your own par 9 course ! Moments you will cherish forever with your father
Nak Kang Buy? We built it!
I meant built 😂
Watching those cores pop was mesmerizing. Good job!
Dramatic intro😯 the things we do for this amazing game! ⛳️ Not all heroes wear capes gentlemen 😉
I've got about 2,000 square feet on bentgrass putting green in my backyard. Its beautiful kept at .185". I solid tine and scarify in the Spring, and core in the fall. I've found given I don't have much pressure, core aerating twice a season was overly aggressive. The solid tine does a good job really.
Wow, leave it to Randy to make a video of punching a green that is entertaining.
Great editing, music, etc. etc. 👍
Looks good fellas.
Eddie Barton Thanks Eddie!
Strangely hypnotic video
Well done, your hard work will be well worth it. :)
I run an elite course, first order: Broom assembly. Make a flat aluminum cage with smaller cages to attach by hinge on both sides. Fasten as many broom ends as you can on underside of cages. Weigh the cages down with heavy rubber mats to prevent skipping while you drag with a cart. You can also just make a core catcher rig on your puncher, then empty off green each pass. You don’t necessarily need better equipment but should.
I just got done aerifying were i work at
Good video 👍
That intro made me feel like I was in The Highlander. Intense.
There can be only one... green.
@@FriedEggsGolf what is the music at the beginning? Do you have a link
I love nice greens and I love green-keepers. What I don't love is booking a round of golf for decent money, turning up for it and finding out after Ive paid full price that the greens have been tined and sanded. It's like turning up at a restaurant and them saying "Sorry our premium beef is not being served, so we've got you some corned beef instead, and it's the same price."
I worked at a course in knowlton Quebec. this was my favorite job to do when we had to aerate the greens! so much fun hard work but fun work
Funny watching yall sweep and shovel up the dirt "pellets". Hard work always pays off
Yall did a better job than my home course i play at.There was so much sand left on the greens , i thought i was at the beach.I raked some of the sand off the top of the green and it was turning brown the day after.
25+ yrs experience. Use snow shovels to push cores, not brooms (much easier). Use cocoa mat (door mat) upside down with ropes attached to drag in sand. Use quality topdress sand (sieved to prevent compaction) not play sand or bunker sand. All that brooming is damaging leaf surface.
Thanks Tony! Plastic scoop shovels seemed to work great for the cores and we definitely used quality top-dress sand. We were hoping someone would offer a remedy for the push brooms, seemed really inefficient. We appreciate it!
We did the same as Tony G drag the sand in with a golf cart and mat tied behind it snow shovels we used until we got a core harvester. Also could get a attachment to create a wind row easier to scoop the plugs that way.
Can someone point me to a link where I can buy top-dress sand. Just constructed a small bentgrass green (just over 1200 sq ft.) and its to the point where I need to top-dress it. Thanks!
@@FriedEggsGolf Build one of these: ruclips.net/video/_YCb0v-7euM/видео.html
Your dads awesome! lol
"Overall I think we did a good thing today. Although right now, I'm positive tomorrow morning it won't feel that way." HAHA.......
i worked at a country club that did this to 18 championship holes ( greens, approaches and tees) and a smaller 9 hole course (greens, approaches and tees ) twice a year, it would take a crew of over 30 people 1 week of 14+hour days to get it all done, i dont how to put it all into perspective but what you did here we would have done in about half hour. The pro-core machines we used had these big bins on the back to catch all those plugs, when you get to the end to turn around just lift the bin real high with about 4 guys and it dumps. Then we leaf blow and dump sand as well.
Your dad is crazzzzzzzzzy
Yep.
at least you saved is the time spent spreading the holes that hold the punches lol
Just played a course that recently got top sand. Needless to say the greens putted like carpet
A necessary evil I'm afraid.
So one green in 8 hours for 2-4 people? Sounds like a lot of work.
for a lot of money
Lol I wonder what he charged for this realistically
NICE WORK!!! A good backpack blower can move cores too.....
Nice epic song!!!
Awesome choice
Oddly satisfying to watch the time lapse portions of the video.
Literally the worst parts of the video to make... glad you enjoyed it! 😏
Scuba steve complaining compilation next
Nobody is going to watch a 45 minute video...
trust me we will
@@FriedEggsGolf I'm in for a Shawshank length film
We always push them off with plastic snow shovels. Let them sit for an hour to dry out. Life is easier.
Makes sense!
One of those jobs that need to be done. Now you need to teach the neighbors how to play.
Aeration day is like the first day of school for adults. A necessary evil.
That was seriously a story told with, tons of holes in the storyline!!!
PUNS!
I love that your dad bought his own =)
Buying things is literally his only vice.
Really great vid!
Thanks Louis!
Awesome video mate inspired me to do my own
Dude we do 12 greens like that in 8 hrs.
It's all about how much and what kind of equipment/tools you have.
You definitely need to invest in a top dresser 👍 look for a turfco wide spin they are awesome
Seems like you could rig up a tarp or something to drag behind the aerator to catch the plugs.... But that's definitely arm chair quarter backing from me! Looks like rewarding work though.
Scuba Steve is the best, reminds me of my Dad
It's the editing.
Tells me you have a great dad
If you fill in the plugs with sand how is air supposed to penetrate the soil below?
sick badass intro dooooode
Your dad's property is awesome. Super jelly
you should of used the cores to build your other green!!
Job well done! Scuba Steve looks like he's been working out and losing some pounds!!
51 to be exact!
Wow...good for him (and his family). He looks great.
1:58 "already run into amlittle not of a problem here". Dad: "what's that?" "I'm talking to the camera!" LMAO 😂
Lotta buckets
$5.00 says you will never see those 27 holed covers on that aerator again 😁
Already in the trash.
@@FriedEggsGolf If you want to know why there are so many... For one, its an ancient Ryan. Everything they built is like that and its from a time where they didn't really have to care about maintenance after the sale. But moreso, its because the thing has a ton of vibration and minimal dampening. Adding more screws so panels don't fall off in the middle of operation is the cheapest solution to that problem.
Too old to cut the mustard but I bet he can still cut the cheese!
toehold57 This shouldn’t have made me laugh as hard as it did.
A mixtape for airating
how come ever time i play a course its that weekend they punch and sand the green..... does this happen to anyone else
Play more often then haha
At least you have an excuse for poor play
Easy solution, before you book a tee time OR before you just walk on. Call the pro shop and ask when the greens are getting aerated.
You should provide Suba a rider with all the attachments. It’s only Money.😏
LOLL You made your dad sweep?! SAVAGE
maybe he'll think about buying a 400$ power broom if he sweeps enough?
Damn lol that aerator old as hell
We’re low budget
Cores? I call 'em turds; particularly when you can't avoid stepping on them on freshly aerated fairways. Sigh. Great vlog, Randy!
Ha I have been at that golf course and it is nice
"I Googled all these terms"
They do the same thing at my local course. Makes putting on the early morning dew a bit of a challenge. I can see you all take great pride in BHGC!
Kind of new to all this I I apologize if this is a stupid question, but if you’re aerating to allow water and air a way to reach the soil then wouldn’t brushing all that sand in defeat the purpose of aeration?
Jakob Morningstar Water and air move through sand better than compacted soil. Thanks for the question!
Fried Eggs Golf gotcha. Thanks for the response! Awesome videos!
Jakob Morningstar 🙏
I used that same machine to do an 18 hole golf course... by myself. Cleaned it off and sanded it by myself. When i was finished the management of the golf course told me.....
Punching holes in a golf green made it look ugly, then you put sand back in it. Needless to say the course closed down a few years later.
Sammy 5150Eddie I took care of a 9 hole course by myself and it was 7 days a week! Can’t imagine doing the same with 18 holes, your the man!!
Press Master 1 well you will understand and appreciate this story. When I started the job I asked where the fairway mowers were. They said IT is over there. I see the tractor, where is the mower? They said it’s behind the tractor.... it was a bush hog, to cut fairways. They started complaining about how high the fairways were. I told them a bush hog cannot go lower than 2.5 inches. Anyway, after they kept on I asked the board members to come to practice range, and I set it on the setting to cut the grass at 1 inch, liked they demanded. I said if I do this I’ll mow it 100yds and you take the credit. Should have seen their smug looks. I cut/drug that bottomed out frame 100yds before I stopped, you can appreciate what the frame did to the turf. They didn’t demand much from me after that. They decided maybe discussions were better than demands. I eventually rigged up a 5 foot wide finishing mower. The amount of diesel we wasted pulling a 5 foot wide fairway mower would have paid for a new mower in one season. I miss that crazy work, those greens were beautiful after two seasons. They had been neglected for about 10 years, so the improvements were exciting the first year.
Sammy 5150Eddie I do understand completely, when I took over as the superintendent they had an 1985 John deer tractor and a 7 deck pull behind finish mower, one John deer walk behind greens mower and a stihl backpack sprayer sg120 that I was supposed to spray the greens with!!! I too worked for a board of directors who new nothing about golf course maintenance, everything was a struggle for the first season. I have to say that all the hard work and fixing up piece of shit equipment made me a better man. I rebuilt a toro 1200 sprayer got on the Floratine program along with some Harrels herbicides and saved the bent grass. Dealing with a board is very difficult most of the time they are wealthy arrogant and have never gotten their hands dirty
Press Master 1 my “Board” all lived in small houses or small trailers, and got the big heads because they had “power”. Our signature hole is a par 115 yd par3 over a lake. The tee box is right outside the pro shop. When I got there I told them that tee box was going to look terrible the first season because I had to completely wipe out most of it. A guy said why would you redo it, we just redid it last year. We brought in x number of pallets and personally laid the sod. I said, you should resign as the president of the board today, because centipede grass is considered a weed on a golf course. People were laughing outloud. I ended up really liking the guy, he was just that clueless when it came to growing legal grass.
Just imagine if you had to do 17 more!
Hard work I used to do with my brother at the golf course
2:08 paid by the screw
Rather you than me but great work and vid. Cheers
Thanks Vince!
Would be great for Randy and Scuba to make a return
Thank you for admitting you googled these terms I felt my manliness deminish as I read your story. Redemption Horah
DEDICATION!
Some might call it lunacy.