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1. Anthony Mauldin

   

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   10/17/2012 7:10 AM

   I am trying to get a better handle on stress issues on A1/A4 collars in the mid-Atlantic area. It seems to me that the collars are the most difficult thing to get a handle on. I have spoke with several superintendent's about rolling through the collar or stopping in the clean up areas. Seems to me that more guys are having success with stopping in the clean up lap. I have true turf rollers and I asked one of my staff members to roll a green and stop in the clean up lap so I could see how it worked. The first time he did it, it torqued the turf. If it would had been summer it would had bruised the turf. The tru turf is a chain driven roller without an adjustment to my knowledge. Have any of you'll experienced this? Is there an adjustment? Should I try replacing chain with new sprocket? Is it the type of roller?
   
   Thanks
   Scott Mauldin,CGCS
   Foundry Golf Club

   
   
   
   
2. Anthony Nysse

   

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   10/17/2012 7:10 AM

   When at Colonial in TX (A4 with 419 collars) and now in FL with tifeagle collars, we stay off the collars with rollers, but we have salsco rollers, with a chain driven, also. It took a few weeks to get the operators to gradually come to the edge and switch directions without the rollers spinning. Now they they are used to it, they go it down and the cleanups/collars have never looked better. It's better to go ultra slow to start to get the hang of it

   
   
   
   
3. Patrick Reinhardt

   

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   10/17/2012 8:10 AM

   To each their own I guess. When I had A-1 on greens and collars, I would have the guys continue all the way off the green into the 419 with the Salsco rollers, and then change direction. This also allowed us to run complete straight lines across the greens. Only time we had issues with collars and clean-ups is when we tried using the Flex21s. Went back to our JD220 on collars, and 180s on clean-ups and no issues after.

   
   
   
   
4. Rockwell Brent S

   
   10/18/2012 3:10 PM

   I would recommend saving your money instead of wasting it on changing out that sprocket or chain... We went through this exact issue with our tru turf roller. We are on G-2 in St. Louis and I agree that the collar does not handle the roller nearly as well as the green. We have one Tru Turf roller and one older Speed Roller. The Speed roller is belt driven and can start/stop inside the green without leaving a tourque mark. We have to roll through the collar with the Tru Turf.