Cowichan Lawn Bowling Club

The Island Irrigation Team is getting close to finishing the construction phase of the Green Rebuild. Work is shifting to completing the...

On Friday night, the new green was a beautiful grey flat surface. Look what happened! In reality, this was a planned event. Under Dave's...

Watch this amazing short video taken by Douglas Ford showing the laser guided grader doing its job on the green. This technology coupled...

Yup, we are almost at the end of the month and the re-construction is in the final stages. Right on schedule. On the weekend we will be...

Below is one of the new irrigation heads being installed. The new irrigation system will work a lot like devices in smart homes. The...

Watch Jessie moving the USGA sand around the green.

First truck of 20 USGA sand loads being emptied on to the green. Mighty Cyprus backboards and plinths now all installed. Soon they will...

Not too busy. Only six tasks worked on today. Compacting & leveling existing sand. 2. Making sure existing grading 3 3/4 in below plinth...

The Island team has been spending the last two days stripping the topsoil off the green and mounting ditch brackets and boards. The sand...

Douglas Ford put together this great video of the Concrete Pumper Truck setting up on Tuesday. Below, you can see Team Island using a...

It was really something to see this impressive piece of equipment that was used to pump the cement into the ditches around the green....

According to Ross's chart below, our old green was a bit off square. Now they are perfectly square. I knew there was a reason why my lawn...

Dennis, Jesse, David, Jeff, Liam and Chase were on site today working on finishing up the cement forms and placing the reinforcing rods...

Wednesday's work was all about getting the ditches prepared for pouring cement. Below you can see the 2 x 6 boards being installed in the...

Today, was not the best of weather with rain falling most of the day. But, it did not stop Jessie and David from completing the placing...

The heavy Cyprus backboards and plinths were delivered this morning. How do I know they are heavy. Because I and others have moved them...

Douglas has the club volunteers keeping a detailed log of what goes on at the construction site each day. Included in the log is work...

Nice new level ditches. Well, at least that is the plan. The ditches look a little rough in this picture. But, I see a deep hole that...

The contractor was busy today removing the remainder of the old sod around the greens. Piping for the new irrigation was delivered as...

I knew our backboards and plinths were not pretty. But, don't they look a whole lot worse piled on the back of the truck. I was told that...