From the road, the first impression you get is, "what are those guys doing down there?

Then, when you get closer, you begin to see the REAL picture...Holy Cow!
Those guys are working HARD!

The organizer of the entire Grass Renovation Project, Tom Bean, was out encouraging everyone and taking the massive amounts of thatch out to the field with the help of the tractor Dewey allowed us to borrow. Thanks, Dewey!

Thanks to our hard-nosed Foreman, Max the Cat, everyone worked exceedingly hard...
Max was somewhat intimidating, which would cause some workers to over-exert themselves and break tools...

Still, everyone put their head down and worked REALLY hard!
Just by the nature of the job, it was a real workout on the shoulders and the forearms. Plus, all the bending over putsome stress on the knees, not to mention the lower back!

This was the tedious work that was involved. Getting all that thatch away from the grass that was there, piling itup and then loading it into the tractor. From this picture, you can see how large the damage is. We had a dozen or sospots like this, with innumerable smaller ones.

Here we have a detailed view of the operations. Guys would rake the thatch up and then load it onto the tractor. Deweywould spread the thatch out over the tilled portion of the field.

Here, Dewey is riding with his daughter. Note that Max theCat is with her. He never lets us have a moment's rest!!!

Because so many guys came out, and every one of them pulled their own weight in only the most industrious of ways, itonly took about 2 hours to complete.

Holy Cow! Sometimes, we don't have this many cars when there's a picnic!