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bought 125 acres in South Devon to build a golf course. A brave, some would say foolhardy, move considering he knew precious little about the game.
With a design from Bristol- based course architect Adrian Stiff, David and Head Greenkeeper, Buster Lewer, (former First Assistant at Wells Golf Club), set about building an 18-hole course near Torbay. Sixteen years on and Dainton Park has matured into an attractive and popular course with a thriving membership of 650, plus waiting list. After building his golf
course, the team were faced with the difficult choices over the greenkeeping machinery they needed - especially as funds were limited and David was reluctant to buy expensive machines for a new course that would take time to mature and ‘bed down’. During the early years, the
avid Wood must enjoy a challenge. Having got out of dairy farming, he
unit with quick attach interchangeable cylinders and decks to cut both fairways and semi-rough! At least with a tractor and mower we’ve got almost as much versatility, with the tractor available for other jobs,’ he says. After much deliberation he
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opted for the seven deck Lastec Articulator and he is now into the third generation of these machines. “We bought our first unit second-hand”, says David. “It was a trailed mower and suited our terrain - the decks are smaller and flex more than most dedicated rotary mowers and therefore produce a better finish without scalping. This is important on a new course.” In 1996 a new Articulator
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fairways were cut with a set of Brouwer trailed hydraulic gangs, whilst the 40 acres of semi-rough were cut with an agricultural topper. A 45hp Kubota tractor provided the power for both jobs, plus general haulage, and kept working five and sometimes seven days a week. A rapidly maturing course, plus the expectations of golfers for striped fairways, led him to invest in a fairway mower after about seven years. The topper needed replacing sooner as it was too slow. “The expensive option was a 40hp dedicated machine that would stand idle for large parts of the year.” As a farmer David doesn’t
like to see expensive power units languishing in the shed. “The ideal would be one 55hp
deck was bought to go on a 30hp Kubota out-front mowing unit. This gave the greenstaff a taste for the superior finish of out-front mowing with a machine that could work between the trees and over the bumps around the greens. “A mower out front is more operator friendly and, no matter how good the suction, with trailed machinery you always end up seeing the tractor tracks the following day,” comments David. “The downside is that pushing rather than pulling an implement uses more power.” When the time came this summer for a new machine he checked out the 721XF Articulator coupled to a Carraro 6400 tractor unit. He thought the combination superb, but wanted a bigger cab on the tractor. “The men spend long days on board and you have to think about their working space. When Carraro introduced its wider cab the problem was solved,” he added.
“In fact the tractor was a major part of the attraction.
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