REPORTS GCSAQ
PHOTOS: BRETT ROBINSON
ASSOCIATION REPORTS
The GCSAQ ‘Mow Off’ day saw Toro, Jacobsen, John Deere and Kubota/ Baroness display and demo a range of their turf maintenance machinery
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he GCSAQ is always looking at innovative ways of running its association days and in late November we held the inaugural ‘Mowoff’ at Indooroopilly Golf Club. The ‘Mow-off’ saw four major turf machinery manufacturers – Toro, Jacobsen, John Deere and Kubota/Baroness – gather at the Brisbane-based club to display a range of machinery for GCSAQ members to inspect and demo. Each manufacturer had various turf maintenance equipment on display, ranging from rough cutters, triplex greens and fairway mowers, fairway units, walk-behind greens mowers and turf utility vehicles. Attendees were split into four groups with around an hour spent with each manufacturer before moving to the next. The first 20 minutes saw representatives from each company talk about the various machines they had on display and their features, before attendees were encouraged to fire them up and try them out. Among the machinery on display included:
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Toro: Reelmaster 5010H, Reelmaster 3575D triplex fairway mower, Groundsmaster 4500-D rotary rough cutter, Greensmaster 3420 TriFlex hybrid, Greensmaster Flex 2100 walk-behind greens mower and Toro Workman GTX (two and four seater).
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Jacobsen: Eclipse 322 triplex and LF570 4WD fairway mower. Distributor KC Farm Equipment also demoed the Sisis Litamina 1200 sweeper and Sisis Veemo MK2 scarifier.
John Deere: 9009a rough cutter, 7700A PrecisionCut fairway unit, 8000A E-Cut Hybrid and 2500B PrecisionCut triplex greens mower. l Kubota/Baroness: GM2800B rough mower, LM2400 fairway unit, LM315GC triplex greens mower and walk-behind greens mower. GCSAQ members from as far afield as the Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast and the Northern Rivers region of NSW converged on Indooroopilly for the day with breakfast provided beforehand by John Deere and lunch afterwards by Toro. While the turnout was modest, the day proved extremely valuable for those who attended and the committee hopes that the event will grow in the years to come. l