Weekend Duty Fanshawe Campus Maintenance

October 12-14, 2018

Baylee and Mitch

On Friday, we began with weeding the beds in D courtyard. Only for an hour due to the CLT testing going on that day. Saturday morning, we started with signing out the RTV and doing the circle checks before we used it. We grabbed any other tools we may have needed based on the jobs we were setting out to accomplish, as well as signing out the trailer for dump runs. Once we got to D courtyard, we started with blowing leaves and cleaning out beds of any trash. Baylee operated the backpack blower and Mitchell was using the Billy goat blower, we worked together to clean and remove all leaves from the courtyard. After we completed cleaning leaves from the courtyard, we moved on to tying up and cutting the Karl Forester grass (Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Karl Foerster') and the Zebra grass (Miscanthus sinensis) and Juncus grasses (Juncus patens) to 6” tall for winter preparation. We then collected all of the grass clippings and brought them to the compost pile. We cut out a dead Pin Oak (Quercus palustris) as per our instructions, and brought it to the compost pile. On Sunday, We began with pruning the 4 ironwood trees (Carpinus caroliniana) to allow more visibility into the college as well as removing any deadwood. We also pruned the Thornless Honey Locust (Gleditsia triacanthos) of any dead wood as well as any overhanging braches obstructing the pathway, we also pruned all of the sucker growth low enough to be a potential issue. Once we finished all of that collected all of the branches into the tr4ailer and dumped them at the compost pile. We cut all grasses to a uniform height of 6” tall for proper winter conditioning. After we had completed pruning, we moved on to weeding all of the garden beds of D courtyard of all unwanted weeds. We collected all weeds and gave the courtyard a final finishing blow to clean up the area and brought back the rest of the debris to the compost pile. We then filled up the RTV and dropped of the utility trailer, cleaned and put away the rest of our tools. We finished the day off by filling out tree removal sheet, to ensure that the oak is no longer in our database as a living tree.