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Peter Hampton joins the workshop team at Celtic Manor as they set up the mowers for the Wales Open 2010
Day one and two
I arrived early on Monday 24th May at the Coldra Woods maintenance compound and met up with Workshop & Machinery Manager, Patrick ‘Cal’ Callaby,
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discuss the week’s plan over a pleasant cup of tea. Chris Heales, the workshop
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supervisor, whisked me off to the new maintenance facility on the impressive and specially designed Ryder Cup 2010 golf course where The Celtic Manor Resort was due to hold their own Wales Open Tournament on 3rd to 7th June. Martin Perrott and Dean Gwillym, the two resident machinery technicians, gave me a warm welcome and set me straight to work. The first task was to sharpen eight of the Toro 5410 fairway mowers for the 2010 course and, whilst Dean continued with the day to day duties of a golf course maintenance technician, Martin and I began stripping and sharpening the first of the mowing units. Martin replaced the five worn
bedknives of one machine and I sharpened the cutting reels and refaced the new bedknives, using the Bernhard’s Express Dual and Anglemaster 4000. Incidentally, the 5410 that
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required five replacement EdgeMax blades had 986 hours on the meter, these were the first new set of blades to be fitted to this machine since it was purchased in 2007, a tribute to non-contact setting, together with the superb quality of the bedknives, I think you will agree. Martin was in charge of reassembling the cutting units, setting reels and the height of cut. It is always best for one person to do this as, then, the mowing units are all set exactly the same. I also helped by reassembling some units, and we remounted them on the 5410s when the sharpening and setting was all done. The two of us completed three
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of the five unit 5410 mowers on Monday, and five more on Tuesday, taking special care with the height of cut and reel to bed knife settings.
were all rigged out with grass catchers for the preparation period and the tournament week, and all set at the same height of cut. It was no mean feat to sharpen
and set up forty fairway mower cutting units for a tournament, in two days, but the new Toro DPA cutting units are very user friendly, and so is the Bernhard sharpening system.
These eight fairway mowers
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