9/17/2015 6:09 AM
Its going to depend on your turf type, conditions, and expectations of your club. Here we grind when the paper tells us, no lapping at all. I did run on a schedule before, but this year has been extremely busy so I let the cut of paper tell me when we do our daily checks. Most of the time it's a light grinding on greens, about every other week to two weeks for greens. For Tees we run eight 260 SL's and grind roughly six times during our year. Fairways we were doing about every three weeks on schedule, but this year looks like we'll average about six to eight times per the year. We do not have to take much off, these are very fast grinds, and never any lapping. We use the Peerless 7000 and Ideal 6000 by SIP so we don't have any cone reels, and we can move very quickly through our units. 3 JD 8500's in and back out mowing in 2 hours and 40 minutes. Each place and person will have different schedules and methods of do things. I have a friend that grinds reels and knives at three weeks, then drops the knife and grinds them at on the sixth week and then does reels and knives again on the nine week mark. This keeps his quality of cut up, saves time and reel stock.
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