Own Your Own Golf Course - Bedknife Adjustment 

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 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 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.😮

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)

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

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 RU-vid are shattered