John Mascaro's Photo Quiz
Answers from page 17
Although the uneven playing surface on this high school football field
could have been caused by an angry herd of pigs, this photo is actually manmade. This school district located in the southern United States had rebuilt
this field about 8 years previously to when this photo was taken. The resulting renovated field had a good soil mix however cutbacks in the school maintenance program as well as cutbacks in manpower had left the field in
disrepair. Severe compaction as well as some marching band ruts and some
low spots had formed from intensive use by the high school. Instead of the
long, normal road to recovery, the maintenance director opted to flag the irrigation heads and rototill the entire field down to a depth of 8 inches. After this
process, the field was laser graded and then rolled, leaving the tilled
bermudagrass in the root zone. The field was then irrigated on a schedule
similar to sprigging and within 30 days, the entire field was grown back in and
ready for play. This process was deemed successful enough that they did
this process to several other fields the following year. n
Photo from John Mascaro's collection.
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