Mowing invention ("hack") for the green keepers

[ship69]

Hello


What do you good people make of this?


"Lawnmower hack literally cuts mowing time in half"


https://www.aol.co.uk/video/view/la...ts-mowing-time-in-half/5b1a7eb3600c9a5ecdb327


Could this principle be used on a golf course?


J

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Mate, that link goes to Sandra Bullock and Kate Blanchett.

 

[ArnoldArmChewer]

Mate, that link goes to Sandra Bullock and Kate Blanchett.

No bad thing :thup:

 

[Deleted member 16999]

No bad thing :thup:

I’m all for using them on the golf course if that’s what he meant

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Baggsy I Have Sandra on my team :thup:. I called it first.

 

[ship69]

Humble apologies - this site is doing strange things to our URLs. Try this

 

[r0wly86]

essentially that's just a poor gang mower. It could be used for fairways, but the machinery used by green keepers would be faster and better than anyway.

No good for greens, you want a cylinder mower for greens with a good amount of weight and a roller. Greens cutting needs to be precise with margin of error the grass should be pretty uniform so the ball runs true. That contraption would have no chance of getting the uniformity required for a good green.

Great idea for a big garden that needs a trim, not much use for sports pitches including golf courses

 

[ship69]

Yes but what does a professional gang mower actually cost?
Something like what, 20 times more money?

For a small poorly resourced golf course, or for when the main machine has blown up (as they all eventually seem to!), could not this line of thinking be useful?

 

[r0wly86]

but for this system to work they would still need a powered mower, most likely a ride on. So they would have to keep a spare small ride on plus several walk behind cylinder mowers (really not cheap if you are buying something decent like a Lloyds or Ranscombe) just in case you actual mower breaks down.

If the golf course is so strapped for cash then yes I guess they could use this to improvise.

Probably a better way would be to lease the equipment so should something break they can get it repaired and get loaned something in the meantime. Or work with other clubs in the area to share equipment should the worst happen.

Something like this shouldn't be used on greens, the cut would be awful. Should the main mower break just use a walk behind cylinder, it would take longer but the cut would be far superior. Never heard many complaints about a slightly shaggy fairway but every course is judged by its greens

 

[duncan mackie]

Yes but what does a professional gang mower actually cost?
Something like what, 20 times more money?

For a small poorly resourced golf course, or for when the main machine has blown up (as they all eventually seem to!), could not this line of thinking be useful?

If you take things down to the smallest, least quality referenced, golfing facility then it may have a place....but, with the possible exception of the odd flymo for use in extreme areas, there's no real place for any rotary mower on a golf course nowadays.

 

[ship69]

Out of interest what does a new mid-priced fairway mower cost these days?

 

[upsidedown]

out of interest what does a new mid-priced fairway mower cost these days?

£35-45k ?

 

[ship69]

£35-45k ?

Interesting - about what I would have guessed too.

But a good sit-on rotary mower might be what £2 - 3K? Plus a couple of walk behinds at say £500 each, would be a total of no more that £4K.

I'm not saying the cut would be anything like as good, but as an emergency backup that would be very, very, VERY much cheaper than the professional stuff, it might be quite useful, no?

 

[r0wly86]

possibly as a last resort contingency.

But if the course is that cash strapped will they want to pay £4 for a contingency that they may not use. Which of course would have to be serviced and maintained in order for it to work should it be required.

It could be used for fairways but not greens as I stated. To get a required cut for green you are looking at over £1000 for a walk behind mower second hand.

Decent gang mowers can be bought for £2000 anyway