Explanation
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Finance and Management to enter into contract with Century Equipment Inc. to purchase a Toro Multi Pro Sprayer for Turnberry Golf Course.
Background: Turnberry Golf Course, a bentgrass course, has a need to replace their Toro Sidewinder mower with another Toro Sidewinder. This is necessary as the Toro Sidewinder mower has contour decks coupled with the sidewinder capabilities, which makes it the best choice for the terrain and turf of the course. Turnberry’s golfers expect a manicured course that reflects the greens fee they pay to play.
Turnberry requests the Toro Groundsmaster 3500-D with Sidewinder System as the replacement. This is a triplex rotary mower designed for superior performance trimming. The new contour plus cutting technology, only on a Toro, takes the quality of the cut to a new level, with air inlet pockets which keep the grass standing tall for the cleanest possible cut. The ground-following design of each contour plus free-floating deck permits mowing the most challenging berms without scalping, as two front rollers and a rear roller allow the deck to smoothly pass over the turf
One of the greatest benefits of this mower is the sidewinder system, which unlike any other mower on the market, enables great productivity as the 68-inch, width-of-cut permits mowing generous swaths, yet its compact size and having the sidewinder capability allows tight maneuvers in trim areas. Because the sidewinder system shifts the cutting units left and right by a total of 24 inches, it increases the cutting unit overhang for precise trimming, and the tire tracks can also be shifted within the mowing path to reduce wear and stress on the turf. Thus, a daily mowing job that normally would require two different machines can be handled by one which saves time and automatically increases productivity.
Safety to the operator with this mower is very favorable. It is important to note that Turnberry has v...
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