Our family owned Golf Courses have been around for over 50 years. I enjoy sharing the amazing game of golf with those who come and enjoy our facilities in person or those who are curious about what a day at the course looks like. I share all about mowers, grinding reels, course maintenance, turf and everything in between.
I also REALLY love all things manufacturing. I machine custom putters as a hobby on the side as well as complex components for the aerospace and robotics industries. I have fully retrofitted both vertical and horizontal machining centers using the Centroid OAK cnc platform and I share a good deal of my journey reviving these machines back to state of the art modern workhorses.
This is an inside look at what goes on at the golf courses and my machine shop.
The stimpmeter guidelines say that if the two measurements are more than 18 inches apart the measurement is unreliable and needs to be redone on a flatter section of the green.
A bit to add to this, I heard of a guy asking another brand of machine a question about how they're put together and was answered, "Why would we tell you that so you can go build them yourself?" This was nothing trade secret, just a basic question. And instead, Syil has been fully open, honest and wanting to help. Huge.
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (The Great I AM, YHVH, El Shaddai, Adonai, God of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham). John 3:10-18
Nice retro, i have done two machines with centroid now, one with oak and the other with an acorn. did you manage to get the optic direct to talk to a dmm dyn4? i thought that wasn't possible i thought the optic direct will only talk to a yaskawa sigma or a delta drive, it would be handy to know how you did it as i have 4 dyn4 drives setup for x/y/z/a and id love to add a 5th axis. also with the dyn4's do you ever see them occasionally fault out at power up after the machine has been powered down for a long time?
How to remove and install cutting units on a triflex. 1. Park where you can reverse the mower to an open spot. 2. Set units on floor and disconnect cutting units. 3. Place reel motors in lift arms. 4. Raise lift arms and reverse away from cutting units.
Hey Eric Do you have a way to get in contact I have a bunch of CNC machines all running linuxcnc About to do a 22ton mazak horizontal. I think it's this machines big brother mazak fh680 Anyway love to pick up any tips. I have a pretty good idea on what to do. This will be my tenth machine but always love doing stuff the easy way
Love the Toro great cutting speed and I feel the buckets stripe better. Since it is a more mechanical design, when the buckets go down you truly are getting the weight of the bucket! just wish it had the same travel speed as a Deere. With a larger course it can take a bit of time to get everywhere.
Very cool endeavour. I have retrofitted a desktop mill and a desktop lathe with the centroid acorn. The motion control of centroid is very good. I also have a Mazak fh5800 with fusion640m which is a big version of that machine. It’s a great machine and the Mazak controls were very good for their age. I also have a mate with a htc-400 but with the older MPlus control. A side note, the tool carousel on his machine spins about 10 times faster than yours in ya video.
That’s awesome, I probably could have kept the 640M but man I really like having the control over all aspects of this machine now. It’s nice to be able to service on my own as well. Love these old Mazaks. Great machines! I’ve eyeballed a few of those 5800’s on eBay. A LOT of iron there haha! And yeah, I set this carousel slow on this machine because some of my fingers have lost their spring. So to make sure we don’t fling any tools we spin her nice and slow. Takes a little more time but smooth is fast and fast is smooth. 😂
@@ericschneiter the fh5800 has rapids of 50m/min, rather impressive machine. I setup 2 of our MPlus machines with the Ethernet option and have them networked and their ability to handle data is unreal for late 90’s machines.
Very fond of this old iron! Pretty stout and lots of Frankensteins out there to pull parts off. I got a second spindle and motor for this one so we should be good for a long while! 😂
Been looking for a channel that combines golf and machining for a while now, you deserve a lot more subscribers with projects and production quality like this. keep it up.
Funny enough, ignoring the actual horseshoe shape (which would be illegal since it intentionally looks like something), it's also illegal since the setup angle is outside of legal limits
