Kyle J Rausch said: Traditional verticuting. When we planet air we have it hooked up to a John Deere ProGator and run it in 1st gear. The slices are an inch apart from each other.
Im very interested in your thoughts of how the Planetair verticuts if you have tried it. When we do traditional verticutting here we have tons of material that we pull up, but cleaning it all up is almost impossible. They advertise the Planetair Tri as a verticutting machine which I do not see the mess traditional verticutters make (wondering what the effects are of not pulling out that material). I know my greens roll better when we do not verticut but if we do not we will end up with grain.
Can you or will you give us your thoughts on the use of the machine on your greens. do you see it helping with long term thatch/OM control?
Common sense tells me that this could be a great machine if it indeed does break down the OM through steady use. Cost wise, it could be more affordable if it eliminates 2 of my three core aerifications which would save us about $2,500 - $3,000 per aerification per year as well as the lost revenue from the three week recovery period (it generally only takes two weeks but most of our play is on weekends so it is almost three weeks until we see the jump in our play).
Thanks for your input. you really do not know how much Superintendents are looking at end results from clubs already trying these out.