give Will a call up at Stone Creek Golf Course in Oswego, NY... I think he still has one F10 left in his "boneyard" ... The URL for the club is www.stonecreekgolfoswegony.com/

@@meadowsgolf many thanks for the tip

Thanks for the constructive feedback.... Yeah I could use a better video/audio setup, maybe even some editing software but frankly, these videos are created as a rudimentary "owner's manual" for a future golf course owner - guess it's safe to say that my dreams of evolving into a golf course owner influencer and receiving 6 or 7 figure checks from KZbin are shattered

Bought mine from Bill Shoemaker ... he perfected it ... and owns Red Pine Golf Course in Edmeston NY 607-965-6714

yeah... this traction unit's main circuit board went poof a couple of times and at $500+ each time I just gave up. I'm using a Toro fairway unit now at MGC... much easier to adjust (except for the rear cutting unit whose motor is right next to the bedknife adjustment bolt)

Hi Lindsay... I use regular "Rustoleum Enamel" but it is thinned out 1-1 with "Rustoleum Reducer"

@@meadowsgolf thank you

Hey Jeff!! Things aren't quite as busy as they were last season (have folks found other stuff to do?) but we're almost finished with the new clubhouse / restaurant so perhaps I'll kick up a few cooking videos - got some good sides to go with the award winning BBQ. Still working my 9-5 I.T. analyst gig so I don't fall behind on mortgage payments. Got to check my GoPro ... maybe a "you suck at golf and shouldn't care" video?

The Meadows Golf Center and All American BBQ 1 year ago this is the url to the original manufacturer's video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYDPgZmjlrCiras ... I hope he's still making the machine - perhaps you can call him and order one? Here's his contact info: ... "For more information call 607-965-6714 or email [email protected]"

Hey Jeff! Yeah... when my old Kodak camera went bad a buddy gave me an outdated but nice GoPro ... I've never really gotten the hang of it so I just shot videos on my phone and uploaded them to my FaceBook page (meadowsgolf) ... thanks for the kick in the A$$ ... I really want to add another subchannel to help people learn to love the game of golf... in the meantime I'll stop being lazy and upload videos here too! First video - keep going despite this crazy virus!

this is the url to the original manufacturer's video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYDPgZmjlrCiras ... I hope he's still making the machine - perhaps you can call him and order one? Here's his contact info: ... "For more information call 607-965-6714 or email [email protected]"

Hi Joe... I don't have any sharpening equipment... I use ReelSharp in Pittsfield MA to relief grind my reels every winter. In the alternative I will backlap the reels on my new (used) Toro 5400 fairway mower and post that... Thanks for the comment. (BTW I picked up the Toro in a trade for this JD3215B with Brian at ReelSharp)

Hi Scott... hope you got a good price for your course! My reels don't have the rear roller that the fairway cutters have... but I have some spare reels that do... maybe I can put together a set of fairway reels just in case my old JD3215B fairway mower gives up?

in morning dew I try to cut before the grass would reach 4"... when the grass is dry I've cut rough from 6" all the way down to 1.5"

easier said then done when (1) Your local hardware store closes at noon on Saturday and is closed on Sunday and (2) Home Depot / Lowe's is about an hour drive... Around here what we do is known as "Catskill Mountain Engineering" ... make do with what you've got ... ad lib to just "git 'er done"!

Hi Jeff, thanks for the heads up... putting in 15 hrs/day doing ...well... just about everything associated with "Owning your own Golf Course". Sure I have some help mowing but the dirty, time consuming jobs are all mine. You're right. No weight on the rollers, but even level on a bench there's no weight on the bedknife, is there? I should just pull the pins and pull the cutting units off one at a time to set them up better. I don't have a grinder on site; I use Brian G over at Reelsharp in Pittsfield MA once a year for that. Other than that I backlap (when I can)

Hi Jeff! Got to love the golf business, eh? Are you on the U.P. of Michigan? Wow what a beautiful place... but a bit cold in winter? Guess I started making these videos (1) as a means to document an "owner's manual" of sorts (2) to market the course and region to hopefully bring in new customers (3) I guess because I'm a bit of a ham and like nothing more than to crack people up... Looking forward to trading ideas and war stories with you. Looking forward to a great 2018 golf season ... one of these days!

It would be nice if we saw what he was adjusting

I used to adjust mine on a concrete floor I’d pick up the rear roller and drop it may be an inch or so bang it on the ground and it would change the adjustment, I like to adjust them so if you hit a bump they don’t go Tight they go loose, i use a single piece of newspaper at each end so that it pinches the paper so hard that you can’t pull it out. But yes up on the bench you can do your spinning it with your fingers and seeing if it cuts the first piece of newspaper and not the second you should have the fold of the paper into the helix of the real,And since that’s a John Deere make sure you use plenty of corn head a grease.😂 I like the gloves I don’t think they will save your fingers a lot of people in this industry are missing fingers.😮

What a compliment... As the owner-operator of my little Mom & Pop I'm hardly a mechanic... that's why I've created this series. Perhaps someday someone will make me an offer I can't refuse and I can "retire" to a (part-time?) job as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none on some other (lucky?) owner's golf course?

Hi Arthur! Over the years I've found it well nigh impossible to get the cup cutter to full depth in one pass... I'm not working on USGA spec greens (sand based) so my root zone and deeper is a native soil (Barbour Loam) and sand (from topdressing) mix and is denser than a sand based green. I've found that extracting the turf down to my guestimate depth of roots (about half way (or more in Spring and Fall))

oops... hit enter? so I can get down to full depth in two passes. I takes me about an hour to hit my 10 greens (9 plus the practice green's 3 cups) ... unless I hit rocks on #s 4, 5, 6 where subsurface stones about the size of your palm can present an issue from time to time.

These may not be ESP. 8 minutes to adjust one and it was an easy one. Somethings Deere should have stayed away from.

I can neither agree nor disagree with you but when somebody gives you a shit sandwich you either compost it into garden gold or you clamp a clothespin on your nose and eat hardy. Gotta go to the dance with the girl that brung ya.

Agreed. Had two 2653's and found out early on it was better all around to take the reels off and flip them up. I tried everything to make it better but no way. Pain in the ass no matter what.

I am the equipment manager at poppy hills golf course in pebble beach ca. All we have is jd mowers and they work great for me . I have 2 8000a, 2 8000 2 8900a and 12 220e cut greens mower.. adjusting them is 1000 times easier on a 2 post lift

Yup! You bet I am... Some of my employees call me "boss" but let me tell you now... I'm just the guy that signs the checks and does the jobs nobody else wants to (but I wouldn't trade places with anybody... after all... I own a golf course!)

No doubt! I've driven it up and down Route 28 from time to time, trying to keep up with traffic... the F10 is a real handful to keep going in a straight line what with rear steering and front wheel drive - what a handful!!!

Lol!! Mine had the steering tie rod break when I had it going full speed on the neighborhood street through the course, it ended up in a front yard with me barely hanging on. lol. I had to get it back to the shop by kicking the wheels straight and stopping, going a few feet, getting off, kick the wheels,turning again, lol.

We had another with no brakes, and I used to run it just by putting it in first and turning it off to stop. I worked at several courses, and that F-10 was one my dad ran in the seventies, the same machine and this was about the year 2000. We opened up the oil filler cap and it was full of grey water, it must not have been changed in years and it still ran. They really don't build things like that F-10 anymore it was literally worn out and just kept mowing...

Brakes? F10 has brakes? Well I guess so... the master cylinder on mine fell apart years ago - I still have the parking brake but giving that handle a yank results in a pretty violent pull to the left (so I try to keep trees, fences, light poles to my right as much as possible). Better off just using judgement and common sense when it comes to speed and path (hence I'm one of the few to cut rough at my course)

Used to have one of these when my family ran a 9hole course. We mowed our fairways with it

He doesn't quite know what hes talks about but sure. Pathogens or disease can happen at any pH event at the perfect pH level. Greens are susceptible even if when your on a preventative schedule of fungicides. Some cultivars of bentgrass are just more susceptible to diseases, breeding new cultivars have helped cut that out but nothing is perfect....yet. Russ should of been using the proper sand as well, mixing sand is never good and he could of simply raised the pH properly by spraying