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Jeff Pickerel, 24, of 6838 Aylesworth Ave., takes advantage of the warm
weather to get in a game of Hackey Sack.
Crew prepares for cleanup
By Laurie Moses
With fall and winter on their way, the
UNL grounds crew will start its annual
cleanup of what Mother Nature has left
behind.
"Usually there is a killing frost in No
vember. The leaves are completely off the
trees by then and we have until the first
snowfall to get all the leaves," said the
director of the grounds department.
Bud Dasenbrock said truckloads of
leaves are taken to a compost pile on East
Campus and will be used later as fertilizer.
The leaves are picked up by a power
sweeper, similar to a vacuum, that picks
up the leaves and deposits them into a
container, he said.
'IVe usually don't pick up grass
clippings. We leave them on the ground to
leach into the soil. The only time we do
pick up the grass clippings is when we've
had a lot of rain and the clippings would
suffocate the grass if they are left on the
ground. These clippings also go to the com
post pile," Dasenbrock said.
When it snows, the grounds crew must
work to clear off sidewalks, streets and
parking lots so they are clean for students
the next day.
"We need around $25,000 to get
equipment ready beforehand. After that,
we need between $50,000 and $100,000
or more each year, depending on the
amount of snow," Dasenbrock said. "Last
year it wasn't very bad because we didn't
have huge snowfalls to compete with. If
we get 12 or more inches of snow, then
we have problems," he said.
"We have a forecasting service who calls
us and tells us if there is a storm system
coming towards us. This is usually 48
hours before it arrives. They tell us how big
the storm will be, when it will probably
start andmore important, when it will
end," he said.
"If we don't know when it will end, we
could start getting things cleared off and
then have to do it again. We only have one
eight-hour period per day when we can
work.
"We have over 30 different machines to
clean up the snow. They range from blow
ers, plows, trucks, four-wheel pickups
and hand-driven machines. We also have six
loaders which help plow," Dasenbrock
said.
The snow usually is piled onto the grass
or in the corner of a parking lot, he said.
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