I am pleased to announce that tee pad installation will begin this Thursday, August 20. The plan is to meet at hole 1 and begin working at 9:00 am. The state park will be dumping gravel & limestone which we will need to flatten & tamp before installing the rubber Fly Pads. The park is providing the tamper so we simply need volunteers to help run it. Shovels and metal rakes will be useful so if you have such items, please bring them. Don't forget work gloves.

Git-r-done butler boys!!!

Wow it's like a soap opera between Moraine and Deer Lakes and lately most people have been falling for the latter...this is so awesome

Wish we had the money to do teepads like Deer Lakes :)

Wish we had the money to do teepads like Deer Lakes :)

Don't think it was a money issue for Moraine...More of a "permanent" concrete issue.

yeah yeah, but still, we had to pay for the pads :)

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Looks good guys!!!

Moraine State Park plans to install more tee pads this week (October 26-30). We're not sure which day as of yet, but I expect to hear something from the park manager early in the week. I will be sure to post an announcement as we can surely use volunteers. We plan to install Fly Pads on holes 3, 4 and 11.

yo jerry. call me when you figure out whats going on im down to help...

Park manager called me today (Monday, Oct 26). Frank is excavating the tees this morning and they will be dumping the gravel fill. Park crew will bring out the tamper so we can lay down more Fly Pads!

I know this is spur-of-the-moment, but if you can volunteer some time today we should be able to get several pads installed today. Jim Wilson is supervising the work crew today on holes 3, 4 and 11.

This evening we were able to install Fly Pads on holes 3, 4 and 11. Work will begin again on Tuesday, October 27 at 11:00 am. We will be completing installation of pads on 3-white, 3-blue and 11 gold. If you can make it out, please join us. :)

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Awesome job guys. I'm sorry I didn't check the site till tonight. I won't be able to help out tomorrow, but please keep posting the work days. I can't wait to try the new pads out.

Fly pads are now installed on holes 1, 2, 3, 4 and 11.

Next work day is scheduled for Thursday, October 29. We will be installing Fly Pads on holes 5 & 6. The tee areas are marked for the park crew to excavate and dump gravel. Volunteers needed to run the tamper and install the pads. We also will be removing the olive bushes from in front of the white tee on hole 5 (chainsaw needed).

Volunteers should plan to show up around 1:00 pm. Park along main road and walk winter path to holes 5-6.

We are good to go for tee pad installation today, Thursday, October 29. The work day will begin at 1:00 pm (and from what I hear, a practice round is occurring this morning at 10 or 10:30). We did not expect the park crew to work in the rain yesterday, but they did. Tee boxes are excavated on holes 5 & 6 with crushed limestone already in place. All we have to do is tamp and lay down the Fly Pads!

Here's a little slide show from last night's work on hole 5. :)

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The park manager informed me that Frank and crew can continue to excavate & prep pads as long as we have the locations marked in advance. I will be arriving at the park tonight a bit after 5:00 pm to mark holes 12 & 13.....and possibly 18 if there's enough daylight (and I if have assistance).

Holes 5 & 6 were completed yesterday thanks to the help of several PFDS volunteers. I spoke with park manager this morning and he will have his crew dump modified 2A gravel behind/beside the blue & gold tee pads on hole 5 to help prevent erosion of the tamped limestone and create a larger surface area for players' run-up.

Holes 12, 13 & 18 will be excavated today in preparation for Monday.

The Moraine workday has been changed to Sunday, November 1.
(No Steeler game this weekend)

Frank excavated all three tees on holes 12, 13 and 18 so all we have to do is tamp gravel and throw down rubber! We will be able to have access to the tamper around 12:00, but if you can get there earlier we can spread the gravel on each pad in advance of tamping. We also need to mark out more tees for Frank to work on Monday. Park management is focused on this project and it won't be long before we have all 18 holes completed! :)

Please help if you can....if only for a couple hours or so. Tools needed are metal rakes and shovels. Don't forget gloves.

Thank you to all the folks who showed up for the workday on Sunday. Even though the tamper quit working (broken belt), we got a lot of work done by hand. The pads installed on holes 12, 13 & 18 are temporary and we will need use the plate tamper on the limestone once the machine is repaired. Additional fill will be dumped around the perimeter of all the elevated tees to help prevent erosion and allow pads to be flush with grade for run-ups and follow-through steps.

Four more holes were marked for tee pad construction......holes 14, 15, 16 and 17.

Great job by everyone who has assisted with this project thus far, especially our two resident mules....Wags & Wilson. :)

I think I left a gray/blue leather palmed work gloves with cuffs at the park on Sunday -- perhaps on hole 13. Anyone pick up, please save for me.

Another good effort by the club.

I have your gloves.

I think you guys made Wags mad.

And what I don't understand is why would you build the teepads on 14 and 15 to the side of the worn out spots? It doesn't make an sense to move sod to the spots that are already worn out and making new tee areas? Seems kinda silly to me. Why wouldn't you build 15 where it already was. That ground is so tamped down from playing, it's gonna be hard for the sod to root.

Upon finishing the pad installation on Sunday, we informed everyone that we would then be marking tees on holes 14, 15, 16 & 17. J Gary, Scott Hartle and myself were the only ones who ended up marking the tees. Everyone else decided to play a round of disc golf instead. In my opinion, the people who were in attendance and chose to play a round of golf over proposing/marking tees have absolutely no room to complain (or get mad) about where and how we decided on those tee locations.

the people who played golf were there all week doing work :)

It just doesn't make sense to move the tees to a new area and try to put sod on the old areas? Seems like a lot of wasted effort to me.

Wags said that he refuses to do any more work now....

15 and 14 white were the 2 that just made you go huh?

gonna be hard getting all the work done when the work crew is on strike :)

I like the blue on 14......but I am the only 1. lol

In my opinion, the people who were in attendance and chose to play a round of golf over proposing/marking tees have absolutely no room to complain (or get mad) about where and how we decided on those tee locations.

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I understand that Jerry, but when the people who played golf put in well more than 20+ hours this week doing work, it was time to go play for once.

It's just a little insulting to the people who designed the holes when things get changed. Or to the people who have played them everyday for years.

I have no problem with any of the positioning of the pads, my only complaint is why would you move a pad 2 - 5 feet to an area with grass instead of build it where the grass has already been worn away? It just doesn't make sense?

The only pad that I question being moved is 17 white tee?? It is now equally as hard and long as the blue tee.

All I know is that if hole 7 gets changed, I might cut down every tree on the course :)

though the blue tee on 7 needs to go back about 10 feet so you can't throw the disc straight at the basket like you can now with all the trees that have been cleared on the left side of the fairway.

and really I am not complaining. IN fact the tee pads seem just fine to me. I'm questioning the state of mind people were in when marking the pads. It's kinda like "what the hell was he smokin"

At least it calls for Sod and not carpets of Moss!!!

I understand that Jerry, but when the people who played golf put in well more than 20+ hours this week doing work, it was time to go play for once.

For once, huh? Many of the players who chose golf on Sunday instead of marking tees were also the same folks who decided to play a round on Thursday after completing the pad work on holes 5 & 6. Honestly, I found it almost comical that no one really said hello to me when you all were on hole 13 and I was walking down 18 to paint tee boxes last Thursday evening. I think it was Wilson who waived to me while others simply turned and looked. Every single one of you knew I was there to mark tees and every single one of you wanted to play golf after a hard day's work on 5 & 6....nobody wanted to stop their round to come help Jerry mark more tees. That is the reason I kept my mouth shut, didn't ask for help and ended up painting 9 tee boxes by myself that evening. I had to finish hole 12's gold tee in the dark. I was curious if anyone would come over to check on me after finishing their round. Wag and Wilson were the only two people who did.

It's just a little insulting to the people who designed the holes when things get changed. Or to the people who have played them everyday for years.

In my opinion, the people who were in attendance and chose to play a round of golf over proposing/marking tees have absolutely no room to complain (or get mad) about where and how we decided on those tee locations.

I have no problem with any of the positioning of the pads, my only complaint is why would you move a pad 2 - 5 feet to an area with grass instead of build it where the grass has already been worn away? It just doesn't make sense?

In my opinion, the people who were in attendance and chose to play a round of golf over proposing/marking tees have absolutely no room to complain (or get mad) about where and how we decided on those tee locations.

The only pad that I question being moved is 17 white tee?? It is now equally as hard and long as the blue tee.

Impossible. White tee is elevated above the green and all three pins are visible. Blue tee is below green elevation and the tee shot is blind to all three pins. Furthermore, in my opinion, the people who were in attendance and chose to play a round of golf over proposing/marking tees have absolutely no room to complain (or get mad) about where and how we decided on those tee locations.

:)

lol

I'm not the one who's mad :)

I like your replies Jerry. And we did say hi when you were out there, but the crew had also been there since 8:00 AM that day and at 4:30 we finally got to play a round.

We already knew you were coming to mark more tees.

But yes we have no right to complain, but we can question the brain-altering-tee-thoughts that happened that evening.

The only thing of all the pads I don't understand is why would you dig up sod, move it 3 feet over and then excavate a whole new area. When the move of a couple feet did nothing to change the angle/paths/etc of the hole.

I think if you were the person playing after the marking like we were, you would think to yourself "now that just seems silly"

But yes thanks for the help and of course we appreciate it. As much as I would have liked to have stuck around to do more work on tees, I think I did more than my share this week at Moraine, not mention all the tees that KB, scott and myself did at Knob before the PFDO. When you got a group of 7 saying lets play, it's time to play.



Now my I ask what was the reasoning of moving 14 white and 15 blue?

and yes we knew you were marking tees, and no we did not help because we were already fighting the daylight left. And we all busted our butts all day spreading gravel and tamping tees. We just wanted to get a round in since the days are getting shorter and the weather turning worse.

Now had you told us "hey I'm coming to mark tees and I need help" I am sure you would have had all of us stop and help you out Jerry. You know that.

Too much Sod on the brain.

now....................back to our reguarly scheduled program................


When is the tamper going to be fixed?

The park will notify me once tamper is fixed and available for us to use.

Tom Baumgardner will be cutting the remaining rolls of rubber tomorrow, Wednesday, November 4. Jim Wilson has volunteered to help Tom cut and stack the pads at the Snyder maintenance area. Anyone interested in helping should plan to arrive at 2:30 pm.

Lol, Good stuff.

As far as the tee pads changing a little bit.... don't be surprised, Obama promised change. Just don't lose the Hope!

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We will be having a work day tomorrow at Moraine, Sunday, November 8....starting at 10:00 am. Tees have been excavated on holes 14, 15, 16 and 17 and gravel has been dumped. Volunteers needed to spread gravel, tamp and install pads. Tools needed are metal rakes, shovels and hand tampers.

Fly Pads are now installed on holes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6......11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18.

16 gold has yet to be cleared/excavated and 17 blue is almost complete (Frank ran out of fill last week). We goofed on 16 yesterday as we installed the 10' pad on blue and the 12' pad on the white tee. :p That's an easy fix!

We also marked the remaining tee boxes to be prepped: 7, 8, 9, 10 and 16 gold. Frank plans to work on these this week and once finished he will then focus on filling the modified 2a gravel around our pads to help prevent erosion, allow room for players' run-ups & follow-through, etc. These pads are going to be done right, for sure!

The mechanical plate tamper not only needed a belt but the gas tank needed to be replaced. We're hoping the tamper will be fixed sometime this week. Course is looking really good thanks to help from the DCNR and our very own PFDS volunteers. I believe everyone is surprised how quickly this project is speeding along!

The Moraine Monthly is this Saturday, November 14.

Holy crap I haven't checked anythin out on here in a while...this is just awesome, I have some time off this week and can help out if you guys want some things done. Let me know how I can help, I have taken the last couple months and been lifting hard, cannot wait to get out there now just to see the pads in person. Good work to everyone who was in on this so far. Nice pics Jerry

Just got back in from Moraine. Had to do about 5 holes with l. e. d.'s, but the tee pads look great, even without a tamper. Thanks to all of yuins guys for the hard work you have been putting in. You deserve at least a few good bounces off trees toward the pin.

No word yet on the plate tamper....

The plate tamper is operational and the Fly Pads have been delivered to each respective tee on the course. Pads were installed on holes 7 & 8 yesterday.

We will be having a workday this Saturday, November 21 from 8:00 am - 12:00 pm (possibly later if people want to work into the afternoon). We will be installing tee pads on holes 9, 10 and and the remaining pad on 16 gold's tee. If we have enough volunteers in attendance we can also focus on tamping the pads which were temporarily laid down when the tamper broke earlier in the month. We have learned that several of these pads can be tamped by simply using a hand tamper atop the rubber pad. This may be the case for several of the Fly Pads......plate tamper may not be needed on all tees.

Tools needed: hand tampers, metal rakes, shovels, work gloves. Water is also needed for the plate tamper. If you have a 5+ gallon container please bring as the water greatly helps in tamping the crushed limestone and keeping the dust down.

If you cannot make it out as early as 8:00 am, please consider coming out later in the morning and working for an hour or two. Any help you can provide is greatly appreciated! Thanks to all the PFDS volunteers who have worked on this project thus far!

For those folks planning an early start to the workday this Saturday, please consider joining us for breakfast at Brown's Country Kitchen in Portersville. J Gary and I plan to arrive at 7:00 am. :)

The PFDS will be providing volunteers with pizza for lunch once we wrap up the work at noon.

Wish I could be there Saturday. I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees, and may of us players would be really happy if you did not cut out those beautiful Black Raspberry bushes on hole 16 by the long tee :) Hopefully it is not too late. That is the nicest patch on the whole course.

Too late...

that's a major bummer. That was a very old and very healthy patch of black raspberries. There are tons of blackberries on the course but very few black raspberries. Many people are going to miss them.

While Frank cleared many of the bushes behind 16's gold tee, he may have given us access to more raspberries than what we had before. I guess we'll find out next summer. :)

With the exception of 7's white tee, all the Fly Pads have been installed on the Lakeview course! :D

Frank will begin working on the finishing touches sometime after Thanksgiving. There are several tees which need gravel aprons to hold the crushed limestone in place and we need to relocate a few tee signs here and there. Plate tamper will also be necessary to properly finish the job on holes 13, 16 & 18.

On behalf of the PFDS, thanks to all the volunteers who worked on this project as well as the Deer Lakes Tee Party project. 2009 has been the year of the Mule.

Good point Jerry. Lots of those raspberries were hard to get to. Maybe it will make them even better?

Great work PFDS!!!!

Would have been there but was in Cinci all weekend seeing Phish and playing disc golf at Idlewild and Banklick. Still can't figure out how I shot -11 at Banklick back when it was an 18 hole course??? I was playing pretty good and only came out -7 on 24 holes.

Thanks to Gibby, Jen and KB for helping to remove leaves from Hole 1 yesterday. The grass looks great! Hole 4 has had the leaves removed from the grassy fairway on top of the hill, too. If anyone is looking to help, hole 9 is in need of leaf removal, especially the green area for all three pins. We're simply trying to get the grass to thicken up on the course. The key is having a tarp to drag the leaf piles away from the fairway/green.

Too bad we couldnt get the park to give us a final cut and mulch the leaves. Thats what I do at home and it does help my lawn .

LOve the teepads but all of the loose gravel on the pads is quite annoying and a little bit dangerous. I wonder what we could do to fix this problem? Perhaps put some larger gravel on top of the fine gravel around the mats? We need to do something because these pads are just covered in that fine gravel. I'm sure I'm not the only one who has been slipping on them because of it.

Any good ideas?

I agree not only can they become slippery, but it will also shorten the lifespan of the pads. A certain amount of abrasion is ok and can even help promote drainage. The downside is that it is basically cutting the rubber and too much over time will cause excessive wear. Unfortunately I do not have any ideas on a permanent solution for this....yet

I like the idea of larger gravel around the outsides. It seems like all of the little stuff gets in your shoes and is tracked onto the mat. Covering up the small stuff with larger limestone should keep this from happening.

I think the larger gravel would eliminate all the small gravel getting transferred onto the mats. We should try it on a hole and see what happens.

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Hole 18's blue tee was improved this morning. We raised the gravel base and gave it a nice crown so no water is running onto the pad. Also scratched out a small drainage ditch behind the tee which is helping divert some of the spring water around the tee area.

A workday is scheduled for Good Friday, April 2. We will be leveling/tamping the remaining Fly pads and hopefully installing a couple of anchors for some new pin placements. Friday's work will begin at 9:00 am. Pizza lunch provided courtesy PFDS.

Thanks to the dozen PFDS volunteers who spent Friday at Moraine State Park. We worked on several tee pads, pole-sawed several tree limbs, chainsawed fallen trees, repaired the OB rope on hole 18 and installed a couple of new anchors (these new pin placements on 16 and 18 will be used for the Ironwood Open).

There are still a few piles of gravel which need to be spread around the Fly Pads on holes 10 and 16. If anyone has the urge to do some shovel and rake work, those are the two holes which need it. Course is close to being tournament ready for the Lakeview Championship this weekend. :)

Tonight we will be working on leveling/smoothing the tee pads on hole 16. This is the last set of tees which need work on before the Ironwood Open. The park has dumped a pile of modified gravel at all three tees......we need to lift the pads, fill in the low spots, tamp the pad flat and spread the gravel around the pads to help prevent erosion. Really, only the white and blue tees need the work.....gold is good for now. Tools needed: shovels, metal rakes, tamper.

If any of you can make it, that would be great. I'll be getting there around 4:30 pm-ish.

Played Moraine today. It was tough out there with the wind. I did manage a descent round ending with birdies on 17 and 18. The tee pads took a beating this last week with all of the rain, many are eroded pretty badly. It looks like we need to place larger limestone over the fine base to keep this from happening.

November Greetings!

Hole 7's white tee pad was delivered to MSP this week. The PFDS is looking for volunteers to help lay this final pad and close the book on the 54-tee pad project at the Lakeview Disc Golf Course. We are also in need of volunteers to help remove leaves from hole 1 as well as a couple of other holes if time & man-power permits. The grass on hole 1 and hole 4 looked great this year because of the leaf removal last year. If you're interested in helping to beautify the course in preparation for Pittsburgh's first-ever National Tour Event, please bring bring work gloves and any of the following:

For Tee Pad Install:
Shovel
Metal rake
Hand tamper

For Leaf Removal:
Leaf Rake(s)
Gas-powered Leaf blower
Large tarp

For Disc Golf following volunteer work:
You know what to bring....your game. :)


I am planning to arrive between 9-9:30 am, but if you can't make it that early, we'll gladly accept volunteers who show up later. Depending on how many folks participate, we'll have people working on tee pad install while others work on leaf removal. Hope to see some of you on Saturday morning.

Jerry

Jerry what day will this be on?

Saturday, November 20

I spoke with Moraine's park manager today. They have closed the Lakeview Beach gate for the season (restrooms are now closed); however, the park rangers will have the gate "dummy-locked" which means it won't be locked, but it will appeared to be locked. If you show up and the gate looks to be locked, check the gate as the chain will actually not be locked. Be sure to close the gate behind you once you're inside.

Frank will be hauling the Fly Pad and gravel to hole 7 in the morning. I plan to get there early in the morning and start blowing/raking leaves on hole 1 until we have a group of volunteers ready to lay down the gravel & Fly Pad.

Thanks in advance to anyone coming up to Portersville in the morning. By the way, there is no longer a detour to the park. West Park Rd is now open.

Jerry
412.576.0945 (cell)