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 648 Core Collector Transport
Transporting the core collector attachment for a Toro ProCore 648 aerator became a lot easier when Jeff Jamnik, equipment manager, at the Great Southwest Golf Club, Grand Prairie, Texas, conceived, designed and built a bracket to secure the core collector when transporting or loading the aerator onto a trailer. Scrap steel 3⁄16 inch thick and 1½ inches wide and bent into a 1½ x 2 x 1½-inch “U” shaped bracket so the core collector arms could rest in an upward position. A 3⁄8-inch-diameter hole was drilled on one end of the bracket and attached to an existing hole on the side of the 648 with a 1½ x 3⁄8-inch 16 bolt backed on each side of the bracket with two 3⁄8-inch bolts and lock washers. The core collector is firmly held in place in the upright position when transporting using an 18-inch bungee cord attached to the core collector and to the 648. It took about two hours to design and build and $10 for materials.
 Modified Green’s Verticut Units
Daniel Green, superintendent, and Saul Menard, equipment manager, at the Emerald Dunes Club, West Palm Beach, Fla., modified the three verticut units mounted on their Toro Greensmaster 3000 Series triplex greens mower easily and efficiently. Their Champion Bermudagrass greens are undulated and every other blade was removed from the factory verticut units so it would not remove too much turf/thatch at any one time from the slopes. Three precision verticut roller kits (part No. 11200) at $119.95 each, six Toro greens mower solid rollers (part No. 52-3120) at $89.40 each, 57 Precision .079-inch thick carbide tip verticut blades (part No. 115P111) at $11.95 each. By removing every other one of the verticut blades the spacing changed from ½ inch to 1 inch and the number of blades was reduced from 37 down to 19. It took about one hour per verticut unit to complete the modification and sales tax is not included in the estimated prices.
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