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Greg Gilson

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I wonder whats in this bottle?
« on: January 18, 2022, 04:16:19 AM »

Greg Gilson

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Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2022, 04:20:09 AM »
This kind of human error happens so often it seems. It has even happened at RM not all that long ago when a bottle of "poison" was mistaken for the fertilser being applied to the greens. Ooops.


 fingers crossed its not as bad as the GM's note suggests

Tommy Williamsen

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Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2022, 09:53:40 AM »
WE had a similar problem this summer at the course where I live.They put on some wetting agent that was mislabeled. The result was thinning of the grass on the greens and the fringes. We had to seed the fringes.
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Anthony Gray

Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #3 on: January 18, 2022, 12:26:43 PM »



 I saw John Kavanaugh urinate on a tree. The next day when we played it was laying across the fairway.




Tom_Doak

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Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2022, 09:35:47 AM »
If it happened at Royal Melbourne it could happen anywhere - there is no better greens crew than those guys.


But I am very glad that my job does not involve spraying such things.

Kyle Harris

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Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2022, 11:48:32 AM »
If it happened at Royal Melbourne it could happen anywhere - there is no better greens crew than those guys.


But I am very glad that my job does not involve spraying such things.


Me too.
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Jeff_Brauer

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Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2022, 12:15:23 PM »
A few memories.


As a college kid, I worked at a course and went out on the spray crew.  One day, the super came out right as we got to the first green.  While he made out a list and let us go, we found out he double checked everything we put in the tank by going through the trash or partly filled containers, just in case.  In my case, from memory, I loaded Daconil SE instead of Daconil, not realizing there was a difference.


My first on my own project came as a result of a winter freeze in DFW that killed greens everywhere.  Still, many members were convinced that their dead greens were a result of their super doing something wrong with the chemicals.  As today, we can see strongly held convictions (our super is a bum, Trump won) are hard to change with simple evidence.  In this case, if it was chemicals, why was every other course in the area also dead?


I also recall the USGA putting out a report on the number of greens that die each year, and it was a near constant 1% of all 17K courses.  And, over 90% of those were related to severe regional weather.  But, if you ask a typical golfer, he would probably reverse that ratio and blame the supers for 90%, weather 10%.


At least this letter came from the GM.
Jeff Brauer, ASGCA Director of Outreach

Jeff Schley

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Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2022, 02:18:43 PM »
People are fallible and supers/grounds crew are human beings. You try and put systems in place, however mistakes are bound to happen. Corners cut, assumptions, bad luck etc. Murhpy's law some years.
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Tony_Muldoon

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Re: I wonder whats in this bottle?
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2022, 03:01:36 PM »
Very strange...I have a sprayers license and 30 years experience.




Not having clear, undamaged labels is sin No 1. When people used to ask me if I wasn't worried about the effects of 'contamination' or 'drift', I would always reply I was most concerned for the person spraying, who spent the most time close to the chemicals. Not following all the correct procedures is a sackable offence.




Yes accidents do happen but I still wonder if the reporting is comprehensive of all the facts.




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