Course update

I have dug new drains in at 14th, while I was digging drains in i notice soil was dryer than the surface, reason being the grass was poor thin due to lack of sun & air & root growth was shallow with a deep layer of thatch, so I dug big area of turf out & thatch & replace with top soil & sand to make levels ready for turfing. As you see the first picture is the thatch which stop water going down & through the soil to free draining layer or drains. Second picture showing turf & thatch dug out ready for topsoil. Then later turf weather permitting. 

I have taken trees down by the 16th tee as these tree are shallow rooters & don't have a tap root (Corsican pines), plus high risk of them coming down on to a house, just before Christmas we had very high winds & few trees blew down,

I had a tree surgeon in & have taken a lot of the trees down now this has let more light & air in to tee & green which is great,  I don't what leave it bear not with trees as we have the same problem, I like to see shrubs as they don't grow as high, so the odd tree but mostly shrubs along there give houses plenty of light for them as well as green.

I now in the shed working on the machines I have started on the articulator which cuts all the rough, first thing i took gearbox off to change oil & have look inside see how its looking, if I need to replace any parts, as you can see defently needed a oil change & the gears was all ok so clean up put back together. 

As for the rest of the articulator I'm striping machine down & replace any parts & greasing machine as I go, good way of check machines is to strip down & clean then put back together.