Course conditions | Fall 2015
2015 Annual Equipment Technicians Meeting at Arcadia Bluffs BY DAVE ERTL, EQUIPMENT TECHNICIAN, TRAVERSE CITY GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB
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hank you to everyone involved from Arcadia Bluffs Jim Bluck, CGCS, Paul Emling, Daniel Heiss, Patrick Sullivan & Phillip Kluesner to all of the speakers who have shared their knowledge and to Jason Farah, Superintendent at Crystal Mountain for hosting golf. To all of the Technicians that attended, Adam Ikamas and the MiGCSA for making all of our technician events happen. The speakers that represent their industries best had put together a great educational experience for the Equipment Technicians. Starting with John Biesbrock and Mike Thorsen, Technical representation at its finest on behalf of
Jacobsen touched base on the future of hybrid technology pertaining to the Eclipse 322. It was very relevant education pertaining to the future of our industry. Following Jacobsen was John Deere Technical Support Speakers Marv Vanarsdal and Mike Honeycheck from J.W. Turf. Hybrid Technology and the need to understand Tier 4 updates pertaining to the John Deere 7500 A Fairway mower with state of the art technology that all of us need to understand. John Garlets with Spartan Distributors spoke about keeping us refreshed on our hydraulic trouble shooting skills. Then before we broke for lunch we were fortunate enough to have Jake Herr from H&R Pressure Washer out of Kalkaska walk us through troubleshooting hot water pressure washers. I cannot emphasize on how important it is to understand the equipment around us and Jake did a marvelous job in educating us on what to look for when we are in need of getting our equipment cleaned and our pressure washer is down. One of the great things while putting all of this together for me is that it also gives some of us technicians who do like to get out and golf a chance to do so. For the price of only $25.00 for a membership in the MiGCSA you can soak up educational experiences like this one. Keep an eye out for the Technician Training at the Michigan Turfgrass Conference January 5th and 6th 2016 and the Spring Management Meeting at Treetops Resort in late March. Superintendents please don’t miss out on signing up your Technicians for an educational experience that they need and deserve. Hope to see you all there. Thank You All Again.
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