Demo the SIP Reel Grinder
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By Eric Kulaas (01 Jul 10 14:00)
We just had a demo of the SIP Peerless 7000 reel grinder. What really sets this apart form other grinders is it grinds parallel to the reel rollers - Read Article
Salvage your Hover Mower Disk
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By Eric Kulaas (17 Jun 10 10:00)
We have several Hover Mowers and they use an aluminum disk with swinging blades to cut. - Read Article
Why Change (Your Oil)?
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By Eric Kulaas (15 Jun 10 13:00)
We have all heard numerous times that during this time of shrinking budgets, every dollar spent must be spent responsibly. A close look at most equipment maintenance budgets demonstrates oil and lubricants make up only 1-2% of the budget, - Read Article
Stihl the Best
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By Eric Kulaas (25 May 10 6:00)
I started in turf maintenance in the 80’s with my own lawn care service. During that period I began to appreciate well built equipment. Not that I hadn’t before, but not in this industry. Over the years I’ve tried quite a bit of what’s out there and now that I’ve been in the golf industry 2 decades I’ve settled on certain choices. One of those is our small tools. - Read Article
IGCEMA’s Virtual Trade Show Wrap Up
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By Eric Kulaas (23 May 10 6:00)
IGCEMA (International Golf Course Equipment Managers Association) just concluded their first Virtual Trade Show. Though it was “Virtual”, it had a lot of the characteristics of a live trade show, booths for vendors, meeting rooms, and seminars. - Read Article
What do you do with an extra fuel tank slab??
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By Eric Kulaas (04 May 10 10:00)
Sometimes you just wonder how we make it through life.. When the course was built, we installed an above ground fuel tank, 1000 gals. The city made us position it 25 ft away from all electric and put in underground lines going to the pumps. - Read Article
Churning
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By Eric Kulaas (30 Mar 10 9:00)
We have this process that we do to our POS Tiff Eagle greens. We’ve been doing it for years and I call it churning.. - Read Article
Jac Greens Care Plus in a Toro
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By Eric Kulaas (28 Mar 10 12:25)
We’re trying the Greens Care Plus. I called the folks at Terresolve, who make it and it sounded great. We’ve been getting about 1000 hrs out of the regular fluid and the main feature of the Synthetic Plus is that it can last up to 2 X’s as long. - Read Article
Jacobsen’s Hydraulic fluid in a Toro
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By Eric Kulaas (25 Mar 10 6:00)
Jacobsen’s Green Care Bio Hydraulic fluid, and this is the Veg based, is made by Terresolve, the same company whose hyd fluid we’ve been using for over 10 years. - Read Article
China Syndrome
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By Eric Kulaas (22 Feb 10 8:25)
We have a fleet of Club Car CarryAll vehicles. They’ve been remarkable over the years. This is my second fleet, the first one lasted 12 years. - Read Article
Getting ready for Green Care
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By Eric Kulaas (18 Feb 10 8:00)
Our NEW Jacobsen Synthetic Hydraulic Fluid arrived. Right now I have our oldest triplex in for a fluid change, filter, new hoses and lift arm pins and bushings - Read Article
Who could get excited about an oil?
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By Eric Kulaas (06 Feb 10 6:00)
I could! Just got off the phone with the folks at Jacobsen and we’ll be getting some of their new Synthetic Hydraulic fluid to try. I’ll post more tonight where I can use a bigger keyboard - Read Article
The Good, Bad and Ugly of Golf Maintenance
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By Eric Kulaas (25 Jan 10 13:00)
This is an article off the original TurfTech site in 2001. I had asked on the bulletin board what were the good, bad and ugly parts of techs jobs in golf were. - Read Article
Quieten that Mower Down!
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By Eric Kulaas (15 Jan 10 13:00)
In the ’90’s we were getting hammered by residents on the course for noise so I experimented with mufflers. - Read Article
A Head Light
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By Eric Kulaas (11 Jan 10 15:00)
We try to take care of all the things the guys need bit at times it gets a bit frustrating. For course service we started buying the elastic band headlights that use AAA batteries. - Read Article
Peek-a-boo Lights
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By Eric Kulaas (04 Jan 10 22:20)
When you add a brush kit to a Flex-21, and it’s in the raised position, it blocks the light when you are making a turn. The workaround was to make a new bracket for one light, and mount it under the brush. Now you have pretty good light no matter what. - Read Article
A look at the Hustler Fairway Mower
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By Eric Kulaas (21 Dec 09 14:00)
Last year Hustler announced that they would be marketing Shibaru mowers in the US as Hustlers. At the time I would guess that Hustler was cash heavy from their commercial mower success and Shibaru, well everyone, would like to be in the US golf market. I think we are probably the excessive consumers on the planet. At least we were until reality set in as the bubble burst and the bottom fell out of the hot air balloon. - Read Article
Something you (thankfully) don’t see everyday.
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By Eric Kulaas (15 Dec 09 6:00)
Fortunately we’ve had more near misses on 16 then splashes. Probably the most spectacular was the 5500 sprayer with one wheel over the bulkhead. The one that did go over was a GroomsMaster bunker rake. - Read Article
Bunker Cultivator
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By Eric Kulaas (27 Nov 09 12:00)
We made this in 2003, trying to come up with a better mousetrap. It almost worked. Years ago, cultivator2Green Machine was a dominant force in 2-cycle tools. - Read Article
Visit to Jacobsen
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By Eric Kulaas (27 Jul 09 8:00)
The Militant Mechanic Eric Kulaas has a visit to the Jacobsen factory in the States. Check out what Eric saw on tour and his opinion of the orange beauties. - Read Article
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