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Hopefully, the days are long gone when staff members were frowned upon for going into the clubhouse
Looking back down the 1st What’s in the shed?
this. I also went on a training course locally to help me fully understand Health and Safety and to gain a qualification.” Machinery is purchased outright. “We try
Toro GM3250-D 2 x Toro GM3200-D Toro Reelmaster 3100 2 x Cushman Trucks, 1 with Turfco Widespin 1530 Major Flail mower Weidenmann Terraspike XP6 Jacobsen Gplex 3 Ransomes SuperBowl 51 pedestrian mower Kubota L3830 tractor Kubota B2530 tractor 2 x Baroness LM180b cylinder mowers Post borer John Deere 3235c Fairway mower Jacobsen Tri-King 1900D Jacobsen AR522 Teraw stone burier John Deere LTR180 compact tractor Fleming fertiliser spreader Marshall Bowser 600L Team Boom sprayer 200L 2 x Scotts Accupro spreaders Greentek Multibrush 2 x Stihl Leafblowers 4 x Lawnflite strimmers Stihl MS211 chainsaw Stihl HS81R hedgetrimmer Efco pole saw Lewis TR-60 HC trencher 3 trailers 2 x Sisis slitters 1 set Thatchaway units Sarrel roller
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to buy through local dealerships, if the price is right but, with the way the economic market is, I will try to source the product cheaper if I can. I did go to Sussex to purchase a fairway mower! And I don’t stick to just one manufacturer as I feel each have their own good and not so good products. Also budget restraints do come into the equation.” “The Wiedenmann Terraspike is a very
versatile piece of equipment that suits us down to the ground. Now that we have purchased a new one, it will be out of the shed a lot more. We can tine six greens per morning before players start their round and, if set up correctly and by using the right tines, there is no damage to the surface at all, but I know that the aeration has been done.”
“We hire machinery on a needs must
basis. We hired the Graden Swing Wing to use on the greens during our spring 2012 maintenance week, but we didn’t last year due to the greens being so wet. We have also hired mini excavators to renovate bunkers, but we won’t have to do that
anymore because we should be getting our own in the next few weeks.” As for a wish list, Simon says he would
really like to have four pedestrian greens mowers. “Having been brought up on hand mowing at Tehidy Park, the finish you get is second to none,” he enthuses. As we conclude our discussions, Simon
comments that, as an industry we are far better respected now than we were when he started his career. “Hopefully, the days are long gone when staff members were frowned upon for going into the clubhouse.” “The biggest problem, from my point of
view, is the expectations of golfers who consider major golf tournaments to be the ‘norm’ for their own playing conditions. By the time you read this, ‘Masters Syndrome’ will have hit us all again. It usually comes after a cold spring where nothing is growing, but there are always a certain few that will hear commentators mention stimp readings and expect the same conditions at our course.”
“I think that the commentators at these
televised tournaments could do a lot more for the industry by explaining things. For example, by comparing the budgets of a top course that is holding a Major compared to your average club.”
The Operation Pollenator area has proven very successful
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