The Other Side of Golf Maintenance
After hearing about the storms up North this seems as if we’re on another planet. Today was good, yesterday was great. Not as many people out but mid morning, the weather was about as good as it gets and the greens were about as good as they will get..
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This is a “sleigh” we made a few years
ago (about 10). It’s pegboard on angle iron frames that hook onto the sides of a Workman. The pegboard makes a great place to add lights and garlands. The “pooch” came out of an idea from Dr. Seuss.
When you add a brush kit to a Flex-21, and it’s in the raised position, it blocks the light when you are making a turn. The workaround was to make a new bracket for one light, and mount it under the brush. Now you have pretty good light no matter what.
With everything that’s going on in the world, this almost doesn’t seem right…
My morning view…
First time I flipped one of these back to adjust it, it kept right on going. Trailer wasn’t quite like the one we had for our 1000′s.
So we came up with this helper on the spur of the mention and it’s been here since.
A couple feet of chain and a couple of pieces of old roller shaft.
Mobile Blogging from here.
Fortunately we’ve had more near misses on 16 then splashes. Probably the most spectacular was the 5500 sprayer with one wheel over the bulkhead. The one that did go over was a GroomsMaster bunker rake. We had to use the backhoe to lift it back up onto the turf. Our operator had a little to much “Buddy Wiser” the night before. Until we lifted it we had no oil spill on the water. After it came up we had to scramble to keep the “sheen” from escaping. We probably only lost about a cup of fuel and were able to gather that up with our pads.
This pic was of a close call. It was left in neutral while the operator was putting the flag back in. An experienced operator but it still happens. And for those of you who maintain these, you know what a chore it is to keep up with the brakes. But this is the key reason we make sure our parking brakes work. (Usually)
Sometimes, you just find yourself with an incredible view. You can be mowing a green, and you turn around and are just struck by the beauty. And the next pass it may have already disappeared.
Back in the day when the Briggs starters had a plastic gear (and would frequently strip) we installed recoil starters as backups. It’s still something I do when the machines get a bit older and not quite as reliable as they once were. It always seems that a battery dies or solenoid goes at inopportune times. The old part number for the kit is 808152.
