Brad Bailey

Equipment Manager at Four Seasons Golf and Sports Club - Orlando, Tranquilo Golf Course. EMCP Level 2. Go Dawgs & Go Braves!

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@Zachary_turf Noice 🔥

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@T_AppelEM @SIPGrinders1902 God I miss that…

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@Zachary_turf 🔥🔥🔥

[Zachary Guggenheim @Zachary_turf]

Final day of Member-Guest and the team crushed it. Course is in absolute primo shape.

Also my last day at Four Seasons Orlando. Excited for this new journey.

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@Zachary_turf Bruh…

[Zachary Guggenheim @Zachary_turf]

Day 2 of member guest 🔥🔥

[Wyatt Harris @truecylinder]

Slightly higher bench height + thicker front faces are giving us a tight surface and lush appearance. 220SLs with smooth roller. No fixed head artifacts anywhere. This level of control would be impractical without our @SIPGrinders1902 machines.

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@Canadianeh79 @AngusGlenGC @Gr8estShowOnTRF Congrats Kev!

[Zachary Guggenheim @Zachary_turf]

Hopefully the last of the cold is done, time to green up and start growing some grass! 🔥🔥

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@TaytheMechanic 🗑️

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@JPsTurf @JRMTurfProducts Yep, dealing with that on our 102’s as well

[Wyatt Harris @truecylinder]

Here's the context missing from the pivot bolt discussion: Loading speed of the 6000. The next knife is in before the stones stop turning. No alignment or touch off of any kind required, no stopping to do the other face. The precision comes for free alongside the speed.

[Mike Rollins @MikeRollinsSIP]

If you hear someone say “we created a problem that didn’t exist” or “we’re already hitting the bullseye” show them this poll.

At @SIPGrinders1902 we’ll never settle for “good enough.”

It goes BEYOND QOC & ACA: it’s “what’d take to get it to cut & WHAT’S IT TAKE TO MAINTAIN IT?”

Sure, you can put a new knife on a bedbar w/ a smile or a twist in it, grind the knife touch-touch, get it to cut, send it, & the QOC & ACA look fine. We did that at SIP for 108 years. That’s a Top Fuel Dragster engine. We got it done quickly & back out the door. It did the quarter mile in 3.6 seconds at 343mph - but now we gotta rebuild the block after each run. Cool.

Instead, I’m gonna fix the twisted bedbar, make sure the pivot bolts aren’t bent, measure the front face thickness of the knife for uniformity, grind the knife parallel to the pivot bolts, check front face uniformity again, dial in my angles on the knife, grind the reel straight & cylindrical w/in .002”, make sure the rollers are cylindrical & don’t have runout, make sure the roller bearings are solid, make sure the bottom of the rollers are parallel to the bottom of the straight & cylindrical reel, & then make sure the frame isn’t twisted. I’m also going to TRACK all of this & write it down. I just blueprinted my cu & I built a NASCAR engine - to do 210mph for 600 miles. I’m not in the cutting unit game for quarter miles.

And you know what? All that work I did in the winter? It SUCKS. It takes TIME. But that’s the price for quality. I don’t want the cutting unit back in here. I’m lazy in the grand scheme of things. I only wanna do this work ONE TIME, UP FRONT.

So now, when your fairway mower comes back in on the lift & 2 of the 5 CU’s don’t cut on one side and you just can’t get it without tightening up the knife too much… you decide “Mannnn, I gotta grind ‘em.” or “I’ll just lap ‘em in.” Either way you go: you have to take a good bit of material out of 2 of them because cut was trashed on one side. Sure, you can still get them to cut when you’re done. But that took YOUR TIME & MATERIAL. Both cost money.

MY fairway mower goes on the lift at the same time & it’s still cutting beautifully, all the way across, on all 5. It mows for another 2 weeks. Maybe even another month. I’m now eating my ice cream sandwich, attacking my preventative maintenance program & mopping the floor.

My point is: grinding parallel & putting in all this work isn’t about QOC & ACA. It never was. It has ALWAYS been about EFFICIENCY. It’s about uniformity & repeatability. It’s about diagnostics - because once you have everything the same: IF anything goes wrong… it sticks out like a sore thumb. It’s about the SECOND grind & the THIRD grind - when the knife comes back in & I barely have to emote any material to get it sharp again. THAT’S the drug. It’s about guys like @chyman_g saving 6 knives & $600 in a season bc his knives are cutting & lasting longer.

The uniform carpets on fairways & pool table felts on greens are the icing on the cake of an efficient shop operation.

I’ll leave you with one of my favorite lines. A line that I’m now gonna add to Cutline is King: “The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.”

[Wyatt Harris @truecylinder]

Member guest +/- 3 weeks away, getting greens diameters all back within .010 of each other and doing a full parallel bottom grind on our CTI bedknives straight outta the package!!!

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@Canadianeh79 Baller

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

@turfmonkeyboy @GCSAA Thanks John!

[Brad Bailey @bbbailey10]

Is there anything better?! Busy week with the @GCSAA conference in town. Club Championship weekend to top it off 🤙

[Brady Hooks @bradyhooks_]

Beautiful, but cold, morning at Four Seasons Resort for @HusqvarnaUSA demonstration. Thanks for having us @bbbailey10, looks great out here.

[GCSAA Conference and Trade Show @GCSAAConference]

Experience how Four Seasons G&SC integrates cutting-edge tech into operations and how it’s shaping the future of labor and efficiency. Grab your spot for "Technology in Action at Four Seasons Golf & Sports Club presented by @HusqvarnaUSA" facility tour:
https://t.co/Ut4hJzerwH

[Mike Rollins @MikeRollinsSIP]

For 27yrs, @SpecialtyReels pushed limits & set the standard for cutting units. He ignored know-it-alls, put his nose to the ground, & GOT IT DONE. - winning @GolfDigest's Best New Private Course in '22 as an EM.

@SIPGrinders1902 Presents: The Daily Grind
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