simultaneously,
using only an electric drive 16mm wrench or socket. This effectively allows the reels on an entire fleet to be set in the time it previously took to adjust the height of cut on just one mower.
The new 7200 PrecisionCut trim and surrounds mower features, for the first time on a triplex cylinder machine, the same patented ‘Width on Demand’ cutting system introduced on the company’s 7400 rotary mower in 2008.
The operator can control the cylinders to move laterally to increase the cutting width, or enable the mower to get closer to the edges of bunkers without the fear of the weight of the machine collapsing the bunker.
The new range of fairway and rough mowers combine new technologies in the form of the mower units being driven by electric motors, along with a three wheeled fairway mower that is designed to reduce wheel marks and be more manoeuvrable.
The final station gave us the opportunity to see the new 220e E-Cut walk-behind greens mower which combines hybrid electric drive with a contour hugging
Quick Adjust (QA) cutting unit, and is designed to provide a top quality finish on golf greens, tennis courts, bowling greens and other fine turf areas.
This model joins the existing C Series range and features a standard 11
blade, 127mm (5in) diameter reel with a cutting width of 56cm (22in) and simple bedknife-to-reel adjustment. Cutting height is quickly and easily adjustable across a wider range down to 2mm using the patented Speed Link system.
Howard Storey, John Deere’s Golf Product Manager for Europe, Africa and the Middle East was delighted with the success of the programme. Over 240 dealer personnel had seen the new products and had gone away with the confidence that their ‘franchisee’ remains at the forefront of mower technology and development.
Full details of the new models will appear on
www.pitchcare.com
TWENTYQuestions
Ian Avery - sensitive, loving, trusting, big, loud, soft ... oh, and don’t play golf on his square!
Who are you? Ian Avery, Head Groundsman at Sutton Valence School in Maidstone, Kent. I’ve been here nine years and in the industry nearly twenty.
Family status? Married to the fantastic Jax.
Who’s your hero and why? My dad, a kind and gentle man.
What is your dream holiday? Touring Canada with my wife. What annoys you the most? Soap operas.
What would you change about yourself? Be six inches taller!
Who wouldn’t you like to be? The next person who plays golf on my cricket square!
Favourite record, and why? Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton, my wife’s and my first record.
Who would you choose to spend a romantic evening with? My wife.
If you won the lottery, what is the first thing you would do? Buy a yacht on the Norfolk Broads.
If you were to describe yourself as a musical instrument, what would you be and why? A tuba - big and loud but can also be a softy.
What’s the best advice you have ever been given? Treat everyone the way you want to be treated.
What’s your favourite smell? Steam engine smoke.
What do you do in your spare time? Fish (when work allows), paint landscapes, play cricket (badly), model trains.
What’s the daftest work related question you have ever been asked? Is the pitch with the stumps the one we are playing on today?
What’s your favourite piece of kit? My Allett Shaver.
What three words would you use to describe yourself? Sensitive, loving, trusting.
What talent would you like to have? To be an attacking batsman.
What makes you angry? Mean people and football twelve months of the year.
What law/legislation would you like to see introduced? No school should be able to sell off their playing fields.
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