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Hi rikaussie,

Just out of interest, there's an identical Masport machine on Gumtree right now and the seller wants $1000 for it, minus a dollar. It's only set up as a cutting machine and not a groomer like yours.

I'm sure you're going to have quite a lot of success with your Masport.

Cheers,
BB.

Cool... the one I purchased was advertised at $900. But I paid sub $700. I knew I would have to fork out for the grooming reel so didn't want to pay too much and wasn't fussed the reel was blunt etc...

I was keen to get hold of an SB45 but they are hard to find in Melbourne.

Hi rikaussie,

So Melbourne is short of a Model 45 or two ???

Do you want any ? as I've got plenty stashed away over here in Scott Bonnar's home town of Adelaide.

Cheers,
BB.

Oh yeah! Let me know what you've got?

Just gotta work out transportation!

My mower is in desperate need of a sharpen. But can't bear to part with it for a 10 day turn around at this time! Backup is required!

Cheers

Here's my Santa Ana today after mowing. I scalpped it 2 weeks ago so there's a little bit of recovery to go, but un all I'm happy with it. It's been just under 11 months since I laid it

Hi Joe,

Wow that's great in just two weeks. Must admit I would've thought it's a bit late in the season for scalping, but obviously not.

Hows that issue with the front lawn going against that wall area ?

Cheers,
BB.

Hey BB

it wasn't a proper scalp, I just mowed a little too low and it happened to scalp. I didn't want to have multiple levels so I just kept going. I did hit it with some ammonium nitrate and a decent 90 minute soak straight after and followed up with another a really strong kelp and seaweed solution and another 90 minutes of water 3 days later to try and get it to bounce back as quick as possible. I normally use the kelp and seaweed weekly anyway (I purposely had it made up as a weekly applicator anyway but this time there was a double application).

The front lawn is actually recovering better than I expected. I've been giving it 10 minutes of water on dusk every night and when it's forecast for 35+ I've been giving it an extra 15 minutes at about 8:45am. Even though it's getting better, I will be killing it off in march and reseeding with Tyee Bentgrass. It is a new generation Bent and much more heat resistant. I does have a tendency to produce more thatch than the current Penncross in the first 12 months but after that results show that from about 18months onwards, thatch levels are almist identical.

Hi rikaussie, what did the custom made grooming reel set you back??