The shaft I'm getting from G&B is complete pre-fabbed and I will add the blades and the spacers.
G&B also will do a reel complete assembled with the blades and the spacers for $750 and a small charge for freight. Katrina said that blades they use are a lot better than the ones I will have and the ones I got will go blunt quicker. Also she said the way that their blades cut for grooming would also have been somehow better for the cut and also the way the cutting would go into the catcher. She did try to explain but I suppose that it was hard to explain to a novice like me.
I'm only going to be using this machine as a groomer, see how I go and then make another SB45 17" as a dedicated verticutter which I guess I'll only use say twice, once in spring and once in summer. But this will probably be reserved for the 2017/18 Spring and Summer.
Going for lower than last season hence when I found out about the groomer mods in this forum I really became interested.
I have a fun video I made of last years season with some basic tips to help my friends not that I'm an expert.
