Verti-drain Process

The verti-drain process is very labor intensive and requires a lot of time. We start by having five members of the staff hand loading sand into a hopper that spreads a thin layer of sand over the greens surface. Then, a another tractor comes behind the sand spreading tractor to put 8-10 inch holes into the greens surface.















This is what the greens look like the next morning with deep holes and wet sand from the morning dew.















We use the buffalo turbine blower to dry the sand so we can broom it into the holes. We did everything possible to get the sand dry to get the job done as soon as we could.















Every person on the staff worked very hard to get the verti-drain finished. If we left the sand sitting on the surface any longer we could have had a lot of problems.















This is the end result of the verti-drain. This process has never been completed so quickly or been this detailed.