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the grass. As we went to lunch, the rest of the reels were ground and set up the correct way, with light/no contact. We re-filled the fuel tank to match the level of the first run and cut the second half of the pitch in exactly the same way, and using the same driver. However, on this run, the rain had stopped and the grass dried out a little. *It may seem as though we cut less grass when the reels were sharp but this is because the grass was dry on the second run. When
It’s a mower Jim, but not as we know it!
sharpen and set-up the Toro mower fleet for The Wales Open Golf Tournament, I was able to complete the assembly and sharpening of a restored 1950s Ransomes Auto Certes Mk1 greens mower (the 2 stroke engine drives the cylinder only). This mower is owned by, and has been totally restored for, my friend Noel Broderick, CEO of Broderick’s Grass Machinery, the Textron dealer based in Dublin and Belfast. It is to be displayed in their showroom.
D
this quite rare mower, Jim McKenzie, Director of Golf at Celtic Manor, began telling me that, as a seventeen year old trainee at Haggs Castle Golf Club, in Glasgow, he was trained to use one of these mowers as his daily greens cutting machine, and that, during the early 1980s fuel crisis, he also used the original 16 inch hand push model Certes without an engine. The 16 inch hand Certes was
extremely hard to push when newly set, and Jim remembered an old time greenkeeper, Rab Robson, showing the younger lads how to place a match on the ground then, when the mower was
When seeing me sharpening
uring my visit to the Celtic Manor Resort workshops, when helping the team to
carried out on a dry day I would expect to see more grass removed when reels are sharp. It is obvious to see that sharp units not only reduce the amount of time taken to do a job but also the amount of diesel used and, in today’s current economic climate, can your golf club afford NOT to grind reels regularly? In summary, the tutorial was
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pushed over it, this relieved the set and made the mower easier to push.
photograph taken with the old Auto Certes mower, and so we took it up to the 18th green on the 2010 Ryder Cup Course. I really get a kick out of re-uniting people with their memories of using old machines. I have, over the years, amassed
and restored a large collection of old golf course machinery, mainly because it was being discarded to be scrapped. Now, having recently been
elected Chairman of The Old Lawnmower Club, I have a new task - to encourage the professional turfcare industry to preserve these old professional machines, and I encourage you to join us at
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