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SPRAYERS Cal Callaby on the 2010 course Day 3 Wednesday
Martin and I set about sharpening the seven Toro Flex 21 greens mowers. When we had replaced the usual tournament bedknives with the micro-cut blades, we trued up the new bedknives using the Anglemaster and spun ground the reels. Martin then carefully set the height of cut to the pre-agreed tournament height. We also sharpened ten Toro
tournament.
testing we were running out of time, so the ten pedestrian mowers were all that we achieved. I did, however, have enough
time to check over the new Bernhard Rapid facer 1000 and offer some tips and tricks to the technicians, ready for their daily rapid face and cutting checks.
Day 5 Friday
1600 26 inch walk behind tees mowers, replacing bedknives on some as we went. All of these seventeen Toro walk behinds were to be used as the morning mowers for the tournament days.
Day 4 Thursday
The primary task for today was to sharpen and set up the second/reserve set of six Toro Flex 21 greens mowers. There was some discussion and experimenting with bedknives, due to a temporary shortage of new micro cut tournament blades, which had not arrived in time due to a mix up with the order. We set up one Flex 21 unit with
a part worn, but carefully sharpened, standard tournament bed knife, which are the normal blades for daily cutting on all of Celtic Manor’s greens mowers. The first of the sharpened Flex
Martin and I sharpened a further three Flex 21 greens mowers as spare/reserve units, then spun ground and rapid faced three DPA greens triplex units. We also sharpened the nine cutting units on three Toro Sidewinder triplex mowers. These were to be used for close semi rough cutting alongside the fairways.
With all the checking and
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21 greens mowers was set at the same height, and checked that it had the same “ground clearance” as the seven Flex 21 mowers, sharpened and set up the previous day. Clearance was checked using a feeler gauge device, inserted between the bottom of the bed knife and top of the height setting bar - we did not want bedknives rubbing the greens surface. After cutting trials on a green, comparing the first mower from each day’s group of six greens mowers, a decision was made to continue with the standard tournament blades. The other five machines were then all sharpened and set up ready for the
over the delivery time. 3. At about £110 per unit for sharpening (£11,880) you would have almost paid for three years lease purchase of the Bernhard Express Dual and Anglemaster reel mower sharpening system, with just one week’s sharpening costs! During Friday, Cal and I managed to fit in a tour of the Ryder Cup Course. I was most impressed with all of the facilities at both workshops and, having worked all week with Chris, Dean and particularly closely with Martin, I was suitably impressed with their work ethic, product knowledge of the Toro equipment and ability to get everything spot-on for the most efficient cutting performance from their Toro machinery.
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