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what i did yesterday, ever mow a football field?

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OliverGuy

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This is just part of a project, I don't do this one all the time. I drilled it with a brillion last fall, came in really, really good. Lots of fertilizer. With all those questions on ZTR's recently, this was done with a $4k used exmark, 60", liquid cooled I bought at an auction. My opinion, money well spent instead of a light duty new homeowner model from home depot for the same money. Later yesterday I mowed an empty lot I picked up that was thick fescue and 18". Took me two trips slowly to get it down to 5". Pretty dang good machine. Stripes lawns nicely but it has no striper (roller). I have 3 others with rollers, but they honestly don't stripe too much more than the others.
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Not a football field but I did mow the local golf course before, well not the greens just all the rest, and can you say I could really make those lost golf balls FLY when the rotary mower found them! it was really Close a few times when it would knock them towards a group of golfers,, lucky though none were hit although the brand new work truck I had just got that morning and one of the shop crew had brought it to the golf course for me and the other guy mowing could drive it back tot he shop yard was parked by,,, Yup the Driving range and we got to sit in glass on the way back as the passenger window was broken out by a so called "Hooked Ball" LOL I had forgot about that as it was in 1990
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Oliver and CnT , we are the mowin crew!,,. there are 2 acres of seedling hardwood trees on the south east corner of my farm i planted 2 yrsago , before my cancer ordeal ,. last yr i largely ignored them ,. other than some markin and spraying ,. early thisspring every spare hourwould find me there searchin ,flagging and markin the rows of trees in the weeds . i mowed with my jd lawn mower all the rows for the 2nd time ,.. took me about 3 hours ,, then i planted about 6 acres of corn for my neighbor who drives for coca -cola
 
No, never a football field, but help mow our local cemetery regularly. Pretty challenging. Fortunately, they have another person trim around the stones, etc., which is very helpful. A local organization does this as a fund raiser for different community projects. A couple of us use 32" mowers which get around and between the stones better than the huge $20K 10' mowers that a few use, which are also undesirable because we don't bag, just blow so all the grass chutes are tied up, which lets those big boys blow a terrific amount of grass and dust all over you when you get within about 20' of them. I try to stay as far away from them as possible.
Looks like you did a really good job!
 
All the time, at one point in my life.

When I was Buildings and Grounds Supervisor for a local public school district. We had a 7', twin blade finishing mower we pulled behind a 971 Ford for the football field and the other expanses on three campuses. With Select-O-Speed on the tractor, you couldn't have asked for a better match between tractor and mower.

Biggest PITA was mowing the stripes on the field with a push mower and painting the stripes. Even with a fancy striping machine, you still had to "string" the stripes initially and every few paintings to keep the lines straight.
 
When I was a kid in the fifties and sixties the local golf course was mowed with a John Deere H pulling a four gang reel mower. The guy hired to drive the rig was an old Danish immigrant by the name of Rassmus Christensen. He mowed up and down the fairways whether golfers were playing through or not. If a ball was in his path it went through the mower. Usually the ball cover stayed in one piece but it was opened wide open and the guts were gone. That H is now owned by a local guy in that town.
 
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