What usually needs fixing?

[Amenz]

Thinking about an average course with cement tee pads, good baskets, and signs.....what usually needs fixing? I want to say the signs and, therefor, I want to say that the maintenance cost depends upon what type of signage is used. I also realize one needs to figure how often mowing would be needed. Does that sound about right? Is there anything else I'm missing as I think about annual maintenance cost?

[Skankin77]

Well you're missing garbage cans. Those will need to be "fixed" into your equation of a good course! Without them you'll need a whole lot of fixing...garbage everywhere from chuckers. The teebads don't need much fixing, other than maybe water run off or in front from people constantly wearing it down. Signs may be damaged (depending where you are, and where the chuckers are) You can probably talk to the parks dept. about mowing and costs.

[Amenz]

Ahhhhh yes, those darn trash cans and trash bums. Any advice on the best kind to get? I've seen some that get beat up and turned over pretty bad.

[Skankin77]

My course has ones with the mesh metal bottom and a top with like the flip lid..idk how to explain. The mesh metal bottoms aren't too bad, although small garbage can still get out. Prolly best to lock them somehow too, so they can't get flipped, turned, etc. If you can get one at every hole you're set. Some at my course are missing some, for example #5 has one, #6 is missing one, and #7 has one..therefor there is always a mass amount of bottles, cans, and other garbage on 6 for some reason. It sure gets old picking up all the trash on 6 and bringing it to 7!

[bwiese]

I have seen five gallon buckets on a hook on each sign post. This is pretty nice because they are easily emptied and easily replaced if damaged.

[Cgkdisc]

Depending on the type and amount of foliage, there will likely be some annual trimming required especially after the first year. Foliage likes to grow to fill in where the sun has all of a sudden appeared with new fairways being created. The sneakiest kind is the slow encroachment into fairways over several years that gradually shrinks them but not enough to notice it for a few years.

[Amenz]

I have seen five gallon buckets on a hook on each sign post. This is pretty nice because they are easily emptied and easily replaced if damaged.


Yet I can see them getting "emptied" right there on the course and damaged all the time.

[bwiese]

^ I guess it all depends where you are building the course and who is using it. If it is high traffic multi use facility then yes. If if is a disc golf course and not many others will be there for any reason then buckets are great.

[DavidSauls]

In a vandalism-prone area, it may be baskets.

On a heavily-played, hilly course, it may be erosion control. (That's our deal at Earlewood).

If you consider mowing the grass "fixing", and are reponsible for it, it is usually the most frequent duty, as well as expensive in terms of equipment and fuel.

[biscoe]

at hawk hollow it is bridges :wall::mad:

[gotcha]

Well you're missing garbage cans. Those will need to be "fixed" into your equation of a good course! Without them you'll need a whole lot of fixing...garbage everywhere from chuckers. The teebads don't need much fixing, other than maybe water run off or in front from people constantly wearing it down. Signs may be damaged (depending where you are, and where the chuckers are) You can probably talk to the parks dept. about mowing and costs.

Not entirely true (regarding trash cans). We have a course in here in western PA that has a "Carry In / Carry Out" litter policy and there is not one trash recepticle on the entire course. It is our cleanest course in town. Granted, we do have litterbugs who do not respect the park rules, and we do pick up after these ***** occasionally, but the litter is not near as bad as the parks with trash cans at every other hole. :thmbdown:

What amazes me are the empty plastic bottles one will see laying on the ground. These ***** can carry a full bottle of Gatorade in their bag during play, but once it's empty (and weighs next to nothing) they dispose of it on the ground rather than carry it in their bag. :wall:

[SomeChump]

I spend a fair amount of time filling in the holes in front of teepads. Signs are our biggest issue though.

[DGRZ001]

Do you want to know what usually needs fixing, or maintaining? People are answering for both, but there is a big difference.

Fixing indicates to me that something is "broken", so around the DFW area I would say it is tee signs, followed by baskets. The fixing involved can be new plexiglass, removal of tagging, and replacing broken parts on the basket. Concrete tees seem to have a longer life than baskets and signs.

Now, maintenance is much more involved and site specific. By site specific, I mean that some P&R depts require that there be no specialized mowing, so the tees may need to be flat to the ground, or surrounded by a no-mow border. Maintenance to me would also deal with erosion issues as well, and could involve tree trimming in order to keep the desired lines open, in order not to encourage others to develop there own, usually extreme lines, which could be hazardous (crossing other fairways, roads, walkways, etc.) or could slow play because an unsuccessful throw could result in a disc that could be difficult to find, which will definitely result in slower play, which is something most people do NOT want (did I mention that it is supposed to get to 105-106F (41C) here in DFW today?).

(whew, thought I might have timed out there...)

(Also, sorry about the comma splices on that last sentence)