4/10/2012 1:04 PM
Yes if have man power or money. We usually mowed Tif Eagle at .o75 but had to alter bed bar on flex actual after cut height was more like .090, but attitude, style of knives, thickness, verticutting, topdressing. If a sand based green no need to core that will make them slower. We also used Jacobsen Eclipse Hybred at .125 and cut more leaf blade per square inch, and yeilded more verdure, than with the flexes, and that worked well. If you do not have a roller I would not worry about it, but are ya Tri plexn', walking, fixed head? I usually ended up preferrring the Toro 1000's fixed head on ultradwarfs, but if your getting Bent ready for summer, just groom watch root depth and topdress. I usually raised the Bent in summer to a minimum of where ya are now, and would even have a few mowers tasken apart, so I had a good reason that I couldn't mow. Could also brush grass first with sand pro drag broom then mow. But just viewing earlier posts What is your mission? Who is the customer, and what is revenue source? If it is a course that is older mowing out a tircherariry cuts around greens to approach height half inch or lower if any slopes of mounds will enhance the challenge. But again what is the Supply & Demand? If you are counting on rounds and revenue, you may loose revenue if too fast, I can even remember the race to the bufffet line at one private club and they complained too fast didnt get to lunch on time. I concur with everyone else ask your self all these questions and make a list. Is it one person made a comment? If so he should adjust or she their putting stroke. These TV TOURNaments have blown this ball friction thing out of water with Johnny Miller shouting out numbers like the lottery. One of few thiings I agree with on USGA is their postings for speeds 4-6 is slow 6-8 is medium to fast 8-10 is fast. I think I put that flier up on every corner. What ever you do if can avoid NEVER put a board that list the speeds. And they do not make Stimpmeters anymore, they are great for leveling irrigation heads!!! 99 percent of people do not comprehend the correlation bwetween Sunday TV golf and the numbers. I stimped a concrete sidewalk and got a smooth 14, so where these people are throwing out these high end request really do not comprehend Pasquals or Pavlov's maybe that was the one who rang the bell and the dog ate anyway one of them 2 folks. laws of physics on friction & force. It takes a lot $$$ to maintain an 11 to 12 and I do not think I have ever seen anyone loose their job because they had grown too much grass, so be careful. My personal goal is too always have consistency with color, and speed. The greenest and fastest now thats a challenge. Anyone can turn off water starve the plant and get a 12 to 13 daily, but I would not sleep well at night if it were me, but just my opinion. Always try something new on a nursery or chipping green first or out of sight etc.
Good Luck,
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